News / Sep. 06, 2019
The Beijing LGBT Center this month will be launching China’s first public campaign t76kwYA6T!^F9fbqr=mO6#z)InbZJgiNXzkaSr@uJTY201&vIIPo improve the lives of transgender citizens.
Through the “ending d%E4c9dhdgwXX4M(aFZcM@q1kEX6B!$=-vG&(fn!kO6Zof*NzbGepression for transgender people” project, the Center hopes to set up a transgender hotline, train medical professionals, and offer other support for the estimated four million transgender Chinese.
They hopeR@gkAci9MBFkL7jp@=L9idfBN%7SOxa9I&7q_qXJcqRnG1NB1J to take advantage of tech giant Tencent’s September charity days where it offers a bonus to donations to charity.
The Beijing LGBT Center this week urged netizens to scan the poster campaign’s QR code and to donate between September 7 and 9 to take advantage of the Tencent bonus.
"We are sincerely looking forward to having you join us to support this project and supporting the transgender community in China. Whether you identify yourself as L/G/B/T/…, or as cisgender straight Ally, we are always a family supportive of each other!” It wrote on Facebook.
Violence
According 7r-Lz14XyNAMG%PyJ6!CuRwfmto)cEZn%AfqZZn+WCt-o+DWTZto the Center, transgender Chinese face discrimination and violence at home, at school, and in the workplace.
They report 99% of transgender Chinese face some sort of assault or violence. A large amount are fox6oZeP4%^g-eZxxoAbWvrpEPapv)Dp@HgE7alg%FQy0jkXacH(rced to undergo dangerous conversion therapy.
China classifies being transgen^^@x%BT$$B3HVJ43%p8%d^1=^Pm(1IQ*&C-HBtDN7PB(cf17cpder as a mental illness.
What’s more, to &t(d&l95)5jA7=Z0Fkhd6tXbKsI_#TlIA65%$dukm^k-4THgB*access gender-affirming surgery, transgender people need permission from their families, to be unmarried, and not have a criminal record.
More than three quarters experience brutality at schob(Ee(uD$uCn3**d1iTjBroX1C8gYZT^3NJPV&I*Uso1dRDil7zol, forcing many to drop out.
I)2x-uoBC$jMYVD)Fn8_1K9Py#qVUb1QEtKvK0Ub2k5VbW1_Knmn the workplace, meanwhile, transgender employees are three times more likely to lost their job than cisgender people.
WoWVfQc#SweiQt65dq=y9*I1yZ$_(Td+OvB$r6UbT7K3q%utap6Drryingly, more than 60% report depression, 73% report anxiety and just over 45% have contemplated suicide because of their gender identity.
Earlier this year, rights group Amnesty International found China’s “invisible” trans population found it nearly impossible to access gender-affirmative health care, )*n8ria=vZJE8w_s(Q34sY%ScA=!)2Qb*iidd=Nf)nPxt!P4D=such as hormones and surgery.
The new report found widespread discrimination, a lack of information and restrictive requirements prevent accesdR)WBFG6y@bq1V7e+nCRiKj_phaLtL9uFBIb6uu1QD-5$JqLoZs to care.
The barriers push transgender people to seek out blarGJPy=f+%a2^l!RZ)+_1rqug(4L!DKxO0%mCSYAWm$CH0)+BAQck market hormone treatments and even operate on themselves.
(Cover Photo: The Beijing LGBT Center / Facebook)
