Entry #20457: Censorship of LGBT issues in China

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RegionChina
IssueCensorship of LGBT issues
StatusDeath penalty as punishment
Start Date1644
End Date1911
DescriptionDuring the Qing dynasty, it was punishable by death for a man to “masquerade as a woman”, which was in practice used to criminalise the gender expression of transgender women.
Sourceshttps://gender.stanford.edu/news/persecution-m-f-crossing-imperial-china


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StatusDeath penalty as punishment
Start Date1644
End Date1911
DescriptionDuring the Qing dynasty, it was punishable by death for a man to “masquerade as a woman”, which was in practice used to criminalise the gender expression of transgender women.
Sourceshttps://gender.stanford.edu/news/persecution-m-f-crossing-imperial-china