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What's the current state of LGBT rights in China? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last I’ve heard, there were some issues, but things were getting better. Now I have stumbled upon this headline and wish to know more details about the situation.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Go further East and things change considerably.

A good case study is Thailand. They managed to avoid being outright colonized, and their approach to gender is so far ahead of their SEA neighbours (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines) where historically they were very similar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think it's due to some kind of buddhist philosophy. India was and is pretty backwards

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

It's not exclusively from Buddhism. Buddhism wasn't prevalent in the Philippines, but the indigenous animist religions had gods and legends that Western culture would call trans. The spiritual leaders, the babaylans, were exclusively women and the few men that felt a calling to that role switched gender expressions.