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| Region | China |
| Issue | Censorship of LGBT issues |
| Status | Death penalty as punishment |
| Start Date | 1644 |
| End Date | 1911 |
| Description | During 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. |
| Sources | https://gender.stanford.edu/news/persecution-m-f-crossing-imperial-china |
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0 | Original entry | |
|---|---|
| Status | Death penalty as punishment |
| Start Date | 1644 |
| End Date | 1911 |
| Description | During 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. |
| Sources | https://gender.stanford.edu/news/persecution-m-f-crossing-imperial-china |