I hope that, given China’s insanely quick economic development, they will also be much quicker to catch up in terms of social issues like this.
LGBT rights progress??? B b b b but Foxnews and CNN said China was sending all the gays to gaylags???
China is still terrible about gay men. Let’s not belittle that struggle because of a circle jerk.
What does that have to do with what they said? Just searching their post history for something to distract with a dunk? The most reddit thing I’ve ever seen lmao
Yes, China definitely has some problems with their treatment of gay men, mostly (as I understand) related to media censorship and gay marriage not yet being legal - it’s bad, and should be condemned.
It seems clear that things are improving overall, though, and have been for a time. It’s also ridiculous for the USA to use it as propaganda considering… everything. Hopefully LGBT rights in China improve further.
In a case shared by the hospital, an adolescent girl named Xiao Lin (pseudonym) suffered repeated anxiety and depression after she entered puberty and her female physiological characteristics became more obvious.
Through searching on the internet, she learned that she is a transgender person.
However, talking to her parents about this increased her psychological pressure since her parents tried to dismiss the concept as being in her mind but their efforts eventually turned out to be in vain.
Cringe journalistic malpractice
It’s not hard to care but some people never realize it’s an option
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This may also be a language issue, or a knowledge issue (writer might not understand correctly how to refer to people). Mandarin, AFAIK, doesn’t really have gendered pronouns in the same way as English.
They should probably establish editorial policies for articles like this one to avoid this exact issue.
:trans-hammer-sickle: :xi:
As said by others, bit of an annoyance that they completely misgendered the specific trans boy/kid in the article (which might be a translation issue dunno) but yeah, always good to have a specific clinic for trans stuff set up. Good reminder that we’re not going away.
