Tag: China
China: Transgender People Risk Their Lives With Dangerous Self-surgery
Transgender people in China are performing highly dangerous surgery on themselves and buying unsafe hormone treatments on the black market because it is almost impossible for them to access the health care they urgently need, Amnesty International said in a new report.
Governments Around the World Are Using Laws to Silence LGBTIQ Civil Society
Last week, OutRight Action International launches their latest report, The Global State of LGBTI Organising: The Right to Register.
#IAmGay trends in China as Weibo removing ‘homosexual’ content
The popular Chinese micro-blogging website begins a purge of material it deems “illegal” in the strictly-policed communist state.
China: End Conversion Therapy in Medical Settings
The Chinese government should take immediate steps to stop public hospitals and private clinics from offering conversion therapy, Human Rights Watch said in a new report today.
China: Progress on LGBTI rights. But more to do
LGBTI rights in China are moving in the right direction, slowly. The country’s ancient history and literature is scattered with references to gay men, such as Emperor Ai who, legend has it, cut off his sleeve rather than wake his male lover during the Han dynasty (206BC to AD220).
Gay man tortured and beaten in horrific clinic ordeal to ‘cure’ his homosexuality
A brave gay rights activist subjected himself to horrific correctional behaviour ordeal to cure him of his homosexuality.