On Tuesday, a Chinese lesbian took the government to court
over textbooks describing homosexuality as a “psychological disorder”, a
landmark case in a country where discrimination remains common.
A student at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, Qiu Bai, aged
21, brought the action against the ministry of education, demanding that it
give her details of how it approved materials and how they can be corrected.
In 1997, China officially decriminalized homosexuality,
removing it from its list of mental illnesses 4 years later.
Qiu’s team showed AFP a manual, “Student Psychological
Health”, published in 2015 by the prestigious Renmin University and distributed
to students nationwide.
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