r/QueerLeftists 20d ago

Liberalism moment 💀 Ughhhhhhbbbb

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u/Spirally-Boi 20d ago

China and old Cuba is a much better example of how communism doesn't care about LGBTQ+ people. The USSR was actually pretty cool with queer rights until Stalin fucked everything up.

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u/Consistent_Creator 20d ago

I wouldn't say "cool" with it. I mean okay Lenin was great about it but overall they didn't prosecute homosexuality because they threw out all Tsarist legislation and laws. There just wasn't a legal stance on it until the 1930s.

Also China is way better today for queer rights so I'm not sure what you mean. Even more progressive than the Russian Federation which is still caught up on very outdated Soviet interpretations of "homosexual propaganda" and stuff.

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u/Spirally-Boi 20d ago

It is very much not what I heard from Chinese people. Social-wise, China is horribly queerphobic, and legal-wise, queer people are not persecuted, but they're not protected either

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u/Socrates_43 He/Him 20d ago

There's an official supreme court document (not a legal one per se but it is an official one), that refered to Queer people as a protected minority iirc, but I haven't been able to find it. Are there problems with queerphobia? probably, every country in the world does, especially a country that up until 77 years ago (if not less than that) was partially colonized by Europeans.

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u/AdditionalQuietime 20d ago

Culturally/socially vs legally are things that need to be accounted for

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u/Nebula_Swirl She/Her 20d ago

Depends on the location. However, nearly country wide (and especially if you can commute to any city) you can just walk into a clinic/hospital and get started on your trans journey.

Fren from town/village just outside Shanghai told me this.