Hey all, I got a question recently about trans rights in China. I wanna make sure I answer the question correctly so I came here. I would just look it up myself but it’s impossible given how filled to the brim the internet is with Sinophobic lies.
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This is just anecdotal, but I visited southern China in 2019. I don't have broad knowledge of Chinese society, but I went to a bunch of DIY style punk shows around Shenzhen and there were tons of cool queer folk there. I ended up talking with a trans man for a while with my broken Mandarin and his broken English. Told him I'm an American who greatly admires China and he thought that was cool.
Yeah, there are a bunch of very open trans and gay folk in China, but maybe that depends on where you go and what strata the people belong to, I guess? It's not at all like what westerners claim, where they say it's completely illegal to be trans and all trans media is censored. I didn't see that at all. I met a bunch of trans people who seemed to have very ordinary, normal lives.
There's probably room for improvement, but that's everywhere in the world. I don't live in China though so I don't fully know what struggles there are