China’s Transgender Community Takes a Step Out of the Closet

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        China’s Transgender Community Takes a Step Out of the Closet
    One of the changes is a rise in gender-confirmation surgeries, according to doctors.
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 Victoria Stein
          
          Jun 14, 2018
          
        
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Things are finally improving for China's transgender men and women, though many issues remain in the conservative, Communist nation.

        
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China’s Transgender Community Takes a Step Out of the Closet

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China’s Transgender Community Takes a Step Out of the Closet

One of the changes is a rise in gender-confirmation surgeries, according to doctors.

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“Depicting gay pornography on prime time has no place in our culture,” Tennessee U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles bizarrely said, after seeing two men dancing and Ricky Martin singing.

“New York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.

What started as curiosity and flirtation turned into something far more unsettling when Randell Smith’s digital companion suddenly decided he’d crossed a line.

Bottcher, a gay Democrat, easily won the state Senate seat last week.

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It was supposed to be the event's 35th anniversary in June.

Opinion: "I have no problem with lip syncing, but you'd think the side that hates drag queens so much would have a little more shame about it," writes Ryan Adamczeski.

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A Capitol Hill staffer called the exchange "gay on gay violence."

Opinion: Bad Bunny proved through color, dance, and inclusion that love is more powerful than hate, writes John Casey.