The rights of transgender workers in China have been given a shot in the arm after a Beijing court ruled in favour of an employee who was fired for taking time off to recover from gender reassignment surgery.
Tangentially related, but with the steady progress in China regarding queer rights, is it possible that we'll finally see attitudes in the Global Majority disentangle the concept of queerness from American imperialism? I may be way off the mark here, but I feel as though that conflation is one of the major stumbling blocks to queer liberation in such countries alongside the generic religious-based conservatism.
I sure hope so, its been building for some time but the recent pink washing by the imperial core just slowed it down some more, to what imo was an already glacially slow jaggy but overall general upward trend going back to pre-colonial times.
I doubt it. America actively pushes queerness alongside explicitly imperialism to pinkwash it and just general identity politics as well while China doesn't promote any social progress (or any sort of ideology) to others
Tangentially related, but with the steady progress in China regarding queer rights, is it possible that we'll finally see attitudes in the Global Majority disentangle the concept of queerness from American imperialism? I may be way off the mark here, but I feel as though that conflation is one of the major stumbling blocks to queer liberation in such countries alongside the generic religious-based conservatism.
I sure hope so, its been building for some time but the recent pink washing by the imperial core just slowed it down some more, to what imo was an already glacially slow jaggy but overall general upward trend going back to pre-colonial times.
I doubt it. America actively pushes queerness alongside explicitly imperialism to pinkwash it and just general identity politics as well while China doesn't promote any social progress (or any sort of ideology) to others