Intersex rights in China
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Protection of physical integrity and bodily autonomy | No |
Protection from discrimination | No |
Intersex topics |
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Intersex rights in China including the
History
In February 2018, Asian intersex activists published the Statement of Intersex Asia and the Asian Intersex Forum, setting out local demands.[2]
Physical integrity and bodily autonomy
Small Luk (Hong Kong) describes traditional Chinese society as patriarchal, promoting the sex assignment of intersex children as boys wherever possible.[1] She states that the "one-child policy" in mainland China led to the abandonment, neglect and deaths of many intersex infants.
Both Luk
The cost of medical interventions in the People's Republic of China makes medical treatment inaccessible, resulting in fewer coercive interventions but exacerbating health issues for some individuals,[6] and issues of abandonment and violence.[1]
In a submission to the
Protection from discrimination
Press reports in 2015 and 2016 have provided examples of abandonment, neglect and even attempted murder. The South China Morning Post reported the abandonment of an intersex baby in a part in Shandong province in mid-2015,[9] followed by allegations of attempts to murder an intersex infant as a "monster", in Henan province, in mid-2016.[10]
In 2017, the Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission together with the Gender Research Centre of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong asked the Hong Kong government to introduce legislation offering protection against discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex status.[11]
Remedies and claims for compensation
The United Nations Committee Against Torture has called for compensation for involuntary and medically unnecessary medical interventions in both the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong.[8][7]
Identification documents
Small Luk has campaigned for self-determination of gender identity,[1] and also for third gender recognition in Hong Kong.[12]
Rights advocacy in Greater China region
The first people to publicly disclose being intersex were Hiker Chiu of Oii-Chinese, based in Taiwan and founded in 2008,[13] and Small Luk of Beyond the Boundary - Knowing and Concerns Intersex, Hong Kong, founded in 2011.[6]
Chiu started a "free hugs with intersex" campaign at Taipei's LGBT Pride Parade in 2010. Oii-Chinese also gives lectures and lobbies government.
See also
- Oii-Chinese
- Intersex rights in Taiwan
- Intersex human rights
- LGBT rights in China
- Transgender in China
References
- ^ a b c d e Beyond the Boundary - Knowing and Concerns Intersex (October 2015). "Intersex report from Hong Kong China, and for the UN Committee Against Torture: the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment". Archived from the original on 26 March 2017.
- ^ Intersex Asia (February 2018). "Statement of Intersex Asia and Asian intersex forum". Retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ^ Yau, Elaine (28 January 2016). "No child should endure my ordeal, says sex-disorder Hongkonger forced to be a boy". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 5 April 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
- ^ Allain, Pierre-Henri (1 July 2015). "Sans contrefaçon, je suis fille et garçon". Libération. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
- PMID 25045882.
- ^ Intersex Day, Intersex Day, archivedfrom the original on 5 April 2016
- ^ a b United Nations; Committee against Torture (2015). "Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of China with respect to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region". Geneva: United Nations. Archived from the original on 26 March 2017.
- ^ a b United Nations; Committee against Torture (2015). "Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of China". Geneva: United Nations. Archived from the original on 26 March 2017.
- ^ Lau, Mimi (24 August 2015). "Baby born with male and female genitals found abandoned in Chinese park". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 12 November 2016. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
- ^ Morgan, Joe (22 June 2016). "Father tries to kill intersex baby three times for being a 'monster'". Gay Star News. Archived from the original on 26 March 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
- ^ Equal Opportunities Commission (9 March 2017). "EOC & GRC of CUHK Issue Statement Calling for the Introduction of Legislation against Discrimination on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status". Archived from the original on 26 March 2017.
- ^ Lam, Jeffie (3 December 2016). "Intersex Hongkonger wages one-person campaign for third gender recognition". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
- ^ a b "Neither here, nor there". Taipei Times. 27 November 2013. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015.
- ^ "擁抱陰陽人 系列2:停止矯正手術 陰陽兒不是異形". Lihpao Daily. 23 December 2013. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015.
- ^ "雙性人細細老師:強迫小童做性器官修訂手術等同酷刑". Passion Times. 24 November 2015. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016.
Bibliography
- Beyond the Boundary - Knowing and Concerns Intersex (October 2015). "Intersex report from Hong Kong China, and for the UN Committee Against Torture: the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment".
- United Nations; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2015). "Free & Equal Campaign Fact Sheet: Intersex" (PDF) (in Chinese).
- United Nations; Committee against Torture (2015). "Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of China". Geneva: United Nations.
- United Nations; Committee against Torture (2015). "Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of China with respect to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region". Geneva: United Nations.