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Trans Rights are Humans Rights! You agree, hun? In a groundbreaking victory for LGBTQ+ rights, Ling’er, a 28-year-old trans woman from Hebei province, has become the first trans person in China to successfully challenge the barbaric practice of conversion therapy. After being subjected to electroshock treatment without her consent, Ling’er took a stand and won a historic case against the hospital responsible, securing 60,000 yuan (almost €8,000) in compensation. A Harrowing Ordeal Ling’er’s story is one of resilience and courage. A performance artist saving up for gender reassignment surgery, she had come out to her family in 2022. However, her parents, rejecting her identity, committed her to a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with the archaic and harmful label of “discordant sexual ori...

Coronavirus might be lurking in semen. This is what a gourd of scientists from China have found, as it is possible to read on the paper, published in JAMA Network Open, a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal, but these result do not prove that coronavirus can be sexually transmitted in all cases. To better understand how this virus could hit us again and avoid possible pandemics, Dr Weiguo Zhao of the Eighth Medical Center of Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital in Beijing and Dr Shixi Zhang of the Shangqiu Municipal Hospital in Henan, analysed samples of sperm of 38 patients aged between 15 and 38 (all positive to Covid-19) and noted that subjects varied in their rates of illness. Amongst them only 4 of those patients who were recovering from the virus, were fou...

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Trans Woman in China Makes History by Winning Landmark Conversion Therapy Case

Coronavirus might be sexually transmitted