‘It’s difficult to survive’: China’s LGBTQ+ advocates​ face jail and forced confession
www.theguardian.com
Trans and queer people and their supporters suffer ‘systemic persecution’ as country pushes increasingly conservative values

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.

  • Munrock
    28·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • mughaloid
      7·
      6 months ago

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

      • Munrock
        12·
        6 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.