Homosexuality Can Be Called a Mental Disorder

 The Chinese are currently committing genocide against the Uyghur people and yet the Left doesn’t care because Biden isn’t too concerned and he’s pretty cozy with China. So are lots of folks on the Left. But I’m gonna take a wild guess that this news is going to WAKE the Left about injustice in China! Not dead people at the hands of the government but besmirching the gay community!

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Homosexuality may be considered “a psychological disorder” in the eyes of Chinese law.

Citing controversial academic literature, a court in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu ruled that a textbook defining queerness as a disorder is not “factual error,” but a divergent “academic view,” the South China Morning Post reported. The ruling, from the Suqian Intermediate People’s Court, upholds a lower court’s ruling.

China’s LGBTQ community has criticized the decision. Ou Jiayong, 24, who filed the lawsuit as a college student in 2017 to get the textbook’s publisher to pull its “poor-quality work” from circulation, called the ruling “random and baseless.”

Ah Qiang, a spokesperson for PFLAG, a support group for the queer Chinese community and their families, accused the textbook’s editors and the courts of being out of touch with contemporary culture. 

“The editor of the textbook apparently used viewpoints that do not match society’s perception of sexual minorities today,” said Ah in a statement.

Officially, homosexuality was decriminalized in China in 1997, and ceased classification as a mental illness in 2001 — with the exception of homosexuals who are particularly tormented by their sexuality, according to the Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders. 

Now a social worker, Ou, who prefers the moniker Xixi, discovered the questionable text in a 2013 edition of “Mental Health Education for College Students” (Jinan University Press) during her first year at South China Agricultural University in 2016. The book described homosexuality among “common psychosexual disorders,” and stated same-sex relationships are “believed to be a disruption of love and sex or perversion of the sex partner.”

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