More or less good, could be worse, could be better.
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I’ve always wondered about transgender rights in socialist countries like China, Vietnam and North Korea. Very important to me because I am trans.
China and Cuba do pretty good, they have free sex change therapy, hormones and that stuff, of course you will get some looks from some people and so on but that happens everywhere and it is just a matter of time and visibility for it to change.
Wait free hormones? Is there any kind of long waiting list like what I experience in the UK?
Ahh, I just assumed that they would give you those too, since I thought the clinics accompanied throughout the whole process, but I can’t find reliable information in that front.
China has recently opened its first transgender clinic and sex reassignment surgery is free, but I can’t say much about the rest. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/china-opens-first-clinic-transgender-youth-rcna5313
Cuba is on a similar scenario but maybe a bit worse?
In 2005, the National Strategy for the comprehensive care of transsexual persons was created, which developed specific health care and treatment for this group, coordinated by CENESEX. In 2008, the National Commission for integral attention to transsexual persons and the Center for integral health care for transsexual persons were created as continuation of this work, as well as for counseling and training on issues and policies related to transsexuality. Also since 2008, sex reassignment surgery is free for those citizens qualified for it, although there is no specific law for the legal process of sex change in the documentation and the courts end up being the ones in charge of settling these matters. The trans collective is beginning to organize especially in Havana and through different blogs such as TransCuba, although there are several examples of political and social visibility throughout the country in recent years, such as the case of Adela Hernández who in 2012 became the first transsexual woman in public office when she was elected councilor of the Municipal Assembly of People’s Power.
I am very happy to see progress being made in these countries, despite many communists saying gender non-conformity is “bourgeois decadence” when the experience of dysphoria, margainalization, oppression and being victims of hate crime is the exact opposite of decadence.
Of course, this all comes from the scientific consensus regarding homosexuality and transsexuality that was predominant in the XX century, which a lot of communist have adopted (mostly old people, in my opinion) and which is now shifting to a better understanding of the situation. If you ask me, even though they still need a lot of things to work on, they are highly ahead of a lot of Western countries who boast about freedom.
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Could I ask where you found this comrade? It’s really comforting especially after some discourse on here about homophobia in DPRK.
Thank you comrade. Number 4 breaks my heart a bit if true, wish they elaborated. I know of westerners who work as tour guides, professors and other niche jobs as such, so I’m unsure about that one.
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Awesome, thank you!
Still not perfect it seems like, but at least their stance seems to be better than I assumed
