The plaintiff called the ruling “random and baseless.”
Homosexuality may be considered “a psychological disorder” in the eyes of Chinese law.
Citing controversial academic literature, a court in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu ruled that a textbook defining queerness as a disorder is not “factual error,” but a divergent “academic view,” the South China Morning Post reported. The ruling, from the Suqian Intermediate People’s Court, upholds a lower court’s ruling.
Officially, homosexuality was decriminalized in China in 1997, and ceased classification as a mental illness in 2001 — with the exception of homosexuals who are particularly tormented by their sexuality, according to the Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders.
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