Dismissing legitimate criticism of China weakens our credibility for refuting actual propaganda. Also I don't think there's anybody here who's suddenly going to become ok with sanctions or something because of poor LGBT rights. It's fine if you don't think it's important enough to talk about, but since we are talking about it, I don't see the harm in admitting that it is, in fact, bad to ban men from presenting in an effeminate way on TV.

I understand the tendency to question narratives that paint China in a bad light because many of them are made up or exaggerated, but that doesn't mean throwing the baby out with the bathwater and blindly dismissing all criticism like some kind of strawman.