On Monday (10 April), lawmaker Nguyễn Anh Trí put forward a proposal to the Standing Committee of the National Assembly to create the new law.
Trí said the law would show that Vietnam values protecting vulnerable communities and “leaving no one behind in its policies”, Việt Nam News reported.
The proposed law would allow people the right to change gender identity, request a different gender identity to the one assigned at birth and the right to choose a medical intervention method for gender-reaffirming surgery.
In a feedback document the day before presenting the proposal, Trí said the government had outlined its support for the proposed legislation.
The chairman of the national assembly’s legal committee, Hoàng Thanh Tùng, said that the country’s legislative body appreciated the efforts of deputies in preparing the proposal.
Tùng added that the national assembly recognises the necessity of promulgating the law, but said that his committee required more clarity on the real-life basis for the creation and enactment of the legislation.
Some scope of the law overlaps with the 2015 Gender Affirmation Law that the government is continuing to study, with Tùng asking lawmakers to continue to look at the issue.
In 2015, Vietnam’s legislature passed the Law on Marriage and Family which removed a ban on same-sex marriage.
That same year, the country passed a proposed law enshrining rights for trans people, by allowing those who have had reaffirming surgery to register under their new gender.
However, in order for the Gender Affirmation Law to be enforced, the bill needed to be discussed by the national assembly, meaning it hasn’t come into effect, so the trans community has no protection from discrimination.
But LGBTQ+ rights are slowly being advanced and, in August, the country’s health ministry declared in an official document, that being LGBTQ+ is “entirely not an illness” and “cannot be ‘cured’, nor need[s] to be ‘cured’ and cannot be converted in any way”.
East Germany had more progressive legislation on LGBT people than west Germany. Cuba passed the world's most progressive code of family law last year. China is making progress albeit slowly. And now Vietnam is saying trans rights.
AES countries have their challenges and imperfections but in the long run communism is the system most conductive of human freedom.
I was reading someone recently - I think it was Liu Shaoqi - talking about how even the best revolutionaries have brainworms from the superstructure they were born and raised in. And even in the process of creating a new society, we cannot escape the social fabric we grew up in.
If Hexbears, with our excellent opinions on things, kicked off the global revolution tomorrow and we were able to create what we thought was the best global socialist society possible... no doubt 500 years from now people would look back and think we were kinda cringe for certain things; and they would chalk it up to us spending most of our lives lived under capitalism.
"they simply let the pig poop on his balls, instead of cleaning them off"
Your response is reductive and rude
My bad, I'm just used to talking like this
If I had to guess. Taiwan and HK don't have to worry about the living conditions of their citizens (unlike mainland China, a very much developing country) so they have more resources to expend on social issues. There's limited amounts of energy, money, time, resources and so obviously if your people don't even have a modern quality of life, efforts will be spent there instead of on social issues. Maslow Hierarchy of Needs on a governance scale essentially; They're more focused on economic development, defending against the threats from the West, etc.
I say this only because China doesn't seem to "play into it harder". More like they just don't really care about these issues. They don't seem to put much effort against or for queer people either way
:frothingfash: those damn orientals and africans are pushing back against globohomo thats why they are beating us
:bloomer: vietnam and cuba say trans rights are human rights
The more this stuff happens, the funnier it gets that liberals continue to push liberal capitalism as the champion of LGBT rights against the "homophobic communists"
that being LGBTQ+ is “entirely not an illness” and “cannot be ‘cured’, nor need[s] to be ‘cured’ and cannot be converted in any way”.
Thank you. Someone gets in power gets it.
The CPB pricks over here will call this evidence that Vietnam is falling to western imperialism.
If anything, resolving contradictions like gay and trans rights in AES countries protects the revolution. It gives the imperialists no ground to stand on.
The supposed savages in the third world are becoming more sophisticated politically and culturally than the self-proclaimed defenders of human rights in the west
