The rights of transgender workers in China have been given a shot in the arm after a Beijing court ruled in favour of an employee who was fired for taking time off to recover from gender reassignment surgery.
The chief obstacle to securing LGBT rights in China will never be the allowance of these dubiously affiliated groups, but overall societal reception. With the latter, wholly independent and organic means of collective organization will naturally form.
A factor to be particularly concerned about is western groups being weaponised as deliberate agitation.
Let’s say an LGBT NGO gets western funding, intentionally riles some shit up, gets shut down by the state. This can drastically damage the population’s perception of lgbt issues.
Western interference in foreign lgbt groups is counter-intuitive. It genuinely deeply harms the local groups doing grassroots efforts if/when local state cracks down on them.
This is of course to the benefit of western imperialism though, it provides plenty of propaganda and further justification for what they’re doing and the enemy regime being evil.
A factor to be particularly concerned about is western groups being weaponised as deliberate agitation.
Let’s say an LGBT NGO gets western funding, intentionally riles some shit up, gets shut down by the state. This can drastically damage the population’s perception of lgbt issues.
Western interference in foreign lgbt groups is counter-intuitive. It genuinely deeply harms the local groups doing grassroots efforts if/when local state cracks down on them.
This is of course to the benefit of western imperialism though, it provides plenty of propaganda and further justification for what they’re doing and the enemy regime being evil.