Xixi, a Chinese LGBT activist, has lost a lengthy courtroom battle against a state-backed publishing house whose university textbook describes being gay as a common psychosexual disorder . She is holding up a list of evidence for her case on 23 August 2020. (Photo by MAY JAMES/AFP via Getty Images)
A court in China‘s eastern Jiangsu province has ruled in favour of a publisher that described homosexuality as a “psychological disorder” in a university textbook.
The Suyu District Intermediate Court in the city of Suqian said the description of homosexuality under “common psychosexual disorders” – along with cross-dressing and fetishism – results from “perceptual differences” and was not a factual error, according to documents seen by
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A Chinese court has ruled that the printing of the words “homosexuality is a psychological disorder,” which appeared in a university textbook used in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, was “not an error,” Chinese state media outlet the
The Suqian Intermediate People’s Court of Jiangsu Province rejected an appeal by a plaintiff referred to as Xixi (a pseudonym) on February 22 and upheld the original hearing’s judgment, which found the printing of “homosexuality is a psychological disorder” in a textbook published by Jinan University Press in 2013 “was an academic point of view and a divergence of understanding, and it was not an intellectual error in the scope of book editing.”
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Chinese court backs publisher of textbook calling homosexuality psychological disorder
This content was published on February 26, 2021 - 11:48
February 26, 2021 - 11:48
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A court in China s eastern Jiangsu province recently ruled in favour of a publisher that described homosexuality as a psychological disorder in a university textbook.
According to a copy of the Feb. 9 appeal ruling seen by Reuters, Suyu District Intermediate Court in the city of Suqian said the description resulted from perceptual differences and was not a factual error, upholding a judgment made in September last year. I feel at a loss, because they didn t even have a trial, they just handed down the judgment, said the plaintiff, who uses the pseudonym XiXi.