{"id":973672,"date":"2021-11-05T19:14:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T23:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=973672"},"modified":"2021-11-05T19:14:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T23:14:26","slug":"chinese-regime-debuts-transgender-children-clinic-in-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-regime-debuts-transgender-children-clinic-in-shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Regime Debuts Transgender Children Clinic in Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-regime-debuts-transgender-children-clinic-in-shanghai%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=973672&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1167431393-e1636144384922-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202111\/1238161.shtml\"><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>on Thursday announced the opening of the Communist country\u2019s \u201cfirst multidisciplinary clinic for transgender children and adolescents\u201d at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>was a bit vague on exactly when the transgender clinic opened for business, saying only that it opened \u201crecently\u201d after the Shanghai hospital encountered an unspecified number of transgenderism cases in its \u201cclinical practice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>In one of those cases, an adolescent girl reported suffering \u201crepeated anxiety and depression\u201d upon reaching puberty and expressing a desire to transition to male. Her parents reportedly \u201ctried to dismiss the concept as being in her mind, but their efforts eventually turned out to be in vain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe medical advice given by the psychological doctors and endocrinologists at the hospital was to stabilize and improve her mood first and suppress her menstruation with medication to ease her anxiety. It is up to herself whether she wants surgery when she grows up,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Medical and political acceptance of transgenderism is a very recent phenomenon in China, which would explain why most of the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>article is devoted to commentary and statistics on transgenderism in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>In May 2019, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/press-release\/2019\/05\/china-transgender-dangerous-self-surgery\/\"><span>Amnesty International<\/span><\/a><span> (AI) found \u201cprevalent discrimination and stigma\u201d against transgender people in China, including from their own parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The AI report warned that Chinese transgender people were \u201cperforming highly dangerous surgery on themselves\u201d and \u201cbuying unsafe hormone treatments on the black market\u201d because few medical resources were available to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn China, transgender people are classed as having a \u2018mental illness\u2019 and gender-affirming surgeries require the consent of families. This is a major barrier in accessing safe treatment. Due to the fear of rejection, many transgender people choose not to tell their families,\u201d AI wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The first person in China to openly undergo gender-changing surgery is 53-year-old TV host Jin Xing, a biological male who became \u201cChina\u2019s Oprah Winfrey\u201d after undergoing transition surgery in 1995.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/16\/world\/asia\/china-transgender-jin-xing.html\"><i><span>New York Times<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>noted in July 2021 that Jin remains one of the few major gay or transgender celebrities in China. Jin\u2019s career success could be partly due to the persona of a conservative traditionalist who has \u201chounded female guests to hurry up and get married\u201d and have children, and encouraged women to attract a man by acting like \u201ca little girl who needs him.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>These are messages the Chinese Communist Party wants to spread as it <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/04\/28\/reports-chinas-population-fell-2020-first-time-half-century\/\"><span>fights<\/span><\/a><span> against a low-birth demographic death spiral, but apparently the Party lost interest in Jin Xing as a spokeswoman in 2017 when Jin\u2019s popular TV show was suddenly canceled for reasons that have never been explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>NYT <\/span><\/i><span>quoted observers who thought the cancellation of Jin\u2019s show marked the beginning of a \u201cbroader government crackdown on gender-related activism,\u201d but after four years that crackdown might be ending as quickly and mysteriously as it began.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Last month, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Life-Arts\/Life\/Breaking-down-China-s-transgender-barriers\"><span>Nikkei Asia<\/span><\/a><span> profiled Huang Xi, a transgender lawyer, activist, and counselor who was born male but came out in 2017 after attending school in the United States and taking some inspiration from the career of Jin Xing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Huang noted China still lacks any legal classification for trans people and surgery is still very difficult to obtain. Parents are known to commit transgender children to involuntary psychiatric care when they come out.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Chinese government continues to make no effort to count or estimate the size of its transgender population, although academic researchers have estimated a transgender rate of 0.28 percent, which would be about 4 million people given China\u2019s immense general population.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s necessary to resolve their traumatic experiences first before they can make decisions on their own about what\u2019s next,\u201d Huang said of the work performed by Huang\u2019s foundation, the Trans Well-Being Team, which conducts most of its activities online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The opening of a transgender clinic in Shanghai, with approving coverage from Chinese state media, will surely be welcomed as a positive step by transgender Chinese. Another unexpected good omen arrived three weeks ago, when Jin Xing announced the return of the canceled talk show at a press conference also held in Shanghai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen the show was canceled, I said to myself that I needed to lay low and learn more. When the right moment came, I would then be able to talk about even more standout things that show my attitude,\u201d Jin said at the press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202110\/1236957.shtml\"><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, <\/span><\/i><span>the reaction of Chinese \u201cnetizens\u201d was mostly positive, and their hyper-censorious government allowed them to <\/span><span>be <\/span><span>positive. The only skepticism reported by the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>came from social media commenters who thought Jin was \u201csometimes too radical.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cInsiders believe that the return of the show isn\u2019t significant for its \u2018radical\u2019 language, but more importantly because it shows the high tolerance the Chinese general public has toward the transgender community,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>wrote. That high level of tolerance was considerably more difficult to detect just a few months ago.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s state-run Global Times on Thursday announced the opening of the Communist country\u2019s \u201cfirst multidisciplinary clinic for transgender children and adolescents\u201d at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}