Transgender people in China
Transgender people in the People's Republic of China include persons whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth. They face a legal and social environment in which medical transition and changes to legal sex are permitted under restrictive conditions. Reliable estimates of the transgender population are limited, but transgender people have become more visible in Chinese medicine, media, and public life since the late twentieth century. While there have been advances in transgender rights in recent years, violence and discrimination remain alongside widespread censorship and barriers to healthcare. There are about four million transgender people in China. Changes to the legal gender marker are possible, but it requires gender-affirming surgery. Transgender identity is still classified as a mental disorder despite changes to the ICD-11. Access to hormones and surgery is available but restricted; some resort to informal or unregulated treatment. Specialist services have...
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