QBits: Over three-quarters of Chinese gay students bullied at school
New survey says 77% respondents were victims of school bullying based on sexual orientation or gender identity in ChinaA new survey released for IDAHO (International Day Against Homophobia) has shown that over three-quarters of gay…
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Trans woman to sue Christian rehab center in Hong Kong
A … transgender [woman] in Hong Kong is going to sue a Christian narcotics school for contributing to the delay of her gender reassignment operation by a decade.
The 24-year-old who identified herself only as ‘C’ was forced by her parents in 2002 to enter Christian Zheng Sheng College, according to local tabloid Apple Daily.
Zheng Sheng, meaning ‘repent to live’ in Chinese, refuted C, saying she should not have enrolled if she regarded herself as a female since the school was not equipped to help her.
The private school targeting deviant adolescents also stressed it does not force anyone to be heterosexual, but simply help students to tell the rights and wrongs.
C, who started her delayed medical evaluation last year, questions the statements.
After befriending a group of trangenders in the street at age 15, C said, ‘I have had a strong desire to change my gender and strived to save up as much money as possible for my gender reassignment operation.’
Her relationship with her parents worsened even as she resorted to drugs. Before she entered Zheng Sheng, C said she had already arranged for a psychiatric appointment.
‘The school kept saying how their tutors were psychologists and stopped me from going and shut me up.’
C also accuses Zheng Sheng for forcing her to live, bath and swim with other boys, rallying other students to force her to be a man, inviting preachers to ‘cure’ her of her sexual deviance and banning her from falling in love.
She tried to commit suicide twice before her mother brought her out two years later. C became even more addicted to drugs and engaged in some criminal activities.
The doctor in charge criticized how she had been forced to delay an evaluation by two years of her prime time and regarded the gender role C was fitted in as tormenting, C said.
Gay Star News has contacted Zheng Sheng for comments.
Praised by some for guiding teenagers back to the right path, Zheng Sheng has also been caught in a few controversies. In 2009, it was reported to have applied for social assistance from the government for around 120 students, but invested part of it in real estate projects in mainland China.
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The first gay wedding in Shenzhen
“I take him for my wedded mate. I will love, honor, comfort, and cherish him from this day forward, forsaking all others, keeping only unto him for as long as we both shall live.” There was a special wedding in a hotel of Luohu district, Shenzhen on August 19. There was no bride, but two bridegrooms: the 25-year-old Mark and 23-year-old An An. This is the first gay wedding made public in Shenzhen. They shared the cake, bowed to heaven and earth, exchanged the rings and kissed each other like other couples. They hope that they can get blessings and understanding from the society.
I teared up a bit at the “bowed to heaven and earth” part. :’) Small steps for my country.
(via luxuryailments)
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Unnamed Couples, March 8, 2011
Wuhan, China
These couples married publicly as a form of activism on behalf of equal rights. China does not legally recognize same-sex marriages.
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Focus on the Family meets China
Chinese school districts in the Yunnan Province have teamed up with Focus on the Family to bring an abstinence-only curriculum to the region’s teenage population.
The province’s ministry of education sent more than 500 teachers from half of the districts in the Yumman province to learn the curriculum in government-sponsored seminars. According to the Washington Post, Focus on the Family plans to extend the program to two school districts per year.
