In Osaka Japan Chinese Head Consulate Makes Gay Derogatory Remark Japan:🙈🙉

China with the world's largest gay population 

{ Japan Times }

BEIJING – A tweet by the Chinese Consul General in Osaka Xue Jian earlier this week describing transgender people as being “deformed” has stirred controversy, with commenters saying the post is discriminatory against sexual minorities.

Xue tweeted in Japanese on Wednesday, “I don’t mean to discriminate against sexual minorities, but tampering with gender is a deformity, not the evolution of human civilization.”

The consul general also said “the absolute minority is effectively forcing us — the absolute majority” and claimed it goes against the basics of majority-rules democracy that the West has long advocated.

China has cracked down on sexual minorities in recent years, viewing support for the LGBTQ community as part of Western values and apparently fearing that their movement could challenge Communist Party rule.

The Beijing LGBT Center, an advocacy group for sexual minorities, was shut down in May “due to uncontrollable pressure” amid stricter control by the government of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno declined Thursday to comment on Xue’s tweet, but said the government will work toward realizing a society where diversity is respected and people value each other’s human rights and dignity.

Background from adamfoxie:

China has the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population. This study assessed the discrimination experienced by LGBT individuals in China in a comprehensive way, covering discrimination perpetrated by family, media, medical services, religious communities, schools, social services, and in the workplace.

Methods

The current study involved a national survey of 31 provinces and autonomous regions. Discrimination was measured both in terms of heterosexual participants’ attitudes towards LGBT individuals, and LGBT participants’ self-perceived discrimination. Pearson correlation analysis was performed to examine the difference between heterosexual participants’ attitudes toward LGBT individuals and LGBT participants’ self-perceived discrimination. Linear regression was used to investigate the association between gross domestic product per capita and discrimination.

Results

Among 29,125 participants, 2066 (7.1%) identified as lesbian, 9491 (32.6%) as gay, 3441 (11.8%) as bisexual, 3195 (11.0%) as transgender, and 10,932 (37.5%) as heterosexual. Heterosexual people were generally friendly towards the LGBT community with a mean score of 21.9 (SD = 2.7, total scale score = 100), and the grand average score of self-perceived discrimination by LGBT participants was 49.9 (SD = 2.5). Self-perceived discrimination from family and social services is particularly severe. We created a series of provincial-level choropleth maps showing heterosexual participants’ acceptance towards the LGBT community, and self-perceived discrimination reported by members of the LGBT community. We found that a higher level of economic development in provinces was associated with a decrease in discrimination, and we identified that every 100 thousand RMB increase in per capita GDP led to a 6.4% decrease in discriminatory events perpetrated by heterosexuals.

Conclusions

Chinese LGBT groups consistently experience discrimination in various aspects of their daily lives. The prevalence of this discrimination is associated with the economic development of the province in which it occurs. In order to reduce discrimination, it is important for future studies to discover the underlying reasons for discrimination against LGBT individuals in China.