https://www.genderlibs.org/series/sinophone-transgender-history/Recent content in Sinophone Transgender History on GenderLibsHugoenCopyright © 2024-2026 GenderLibs. All Rights Reserved.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-employment-evidence-history/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-employment-evidence-history/Abstract The public history of transgender employment in mainland China can be read through prominent lawsuits, and it can also be read through a second question: which records turned workplace experience into evidence that researchers, courts, organizations, and later readers could measure, compare, litigate, and verify? LGBT institutional reports and large surveys from 2014–2016 placed employment, income, disclosure, and employer policy insidehttps://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/chen-lili-pageant-eligibility-history/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/chen-lili-pageant-eligibility-history/Abstract In 2004, Chen Lili (陈莉莉), a transgender woman from Sichuan, registered for the Sichuan selection of Miss Universe China and passed through a rapid sequence of institutional states: local registration, provisional acceptance, higher-level rule interpretation, cancellation of competitive eligibility, and a later appearance on the same stage as a special guest. During the same year, Beijing model Yang Yuan was removed from the Misshttps://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-hiv-public-health-visibility-history/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/transgender-hiv-public-health-visibility-history/Abstract The history of transgender public health in mainland China runs partly through an institutional corridor built for HIV prevention among men who have sex with men (MSM). From the late 1990s through the 2000s, AIDS programs created partnerships among local disease-control agencies, gay and tongzhi community groups, peer educators, testing sites, international funders, and digital outreach networks. Those arrangements made otherwise hard-to-reach sexual-minority populations legible to public-health institutions. Transgenderhttps://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/zhang-kesha-public-narrative-history/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/zhang-kesha-public-narrative-history/Abstract On January 10, 1983, Zhang Kesha underwent surgery in the plastic-surgery service of the Third Hospital of Beijing Medical College. A 2026 institutional retrospective from Peking University Third Hospital describes the procedure as China’s first male-to-female gender-reassignment operation and emphasizes the strict confidentiality surrounding the case. Twenty years later, in 2003, Zhang appeared under her own name in reports by Xinhua, Southern Metropolishttps://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/2018-transgender-interface-year-mainland-china/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/2018-transgender-interface-year-mainland-china/Abstract The public record of transgender life in mainland China shows an unusual concentration of interface-building in 2018. On 2 June, Shanghai’s first Trans Pride placed community advocacy, health care, violence prevention, law, and identity language inside a Chinese-led day-long public program. In August, the National Transgender Hotline expanded a transgender hotline operated by the Beijing LGBT Center since December 2015 into a collaborative network involving groups and volunteers inhttps://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/liu-ting-moral-model-public-credential-history/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://www.genderlibs.org/blog/2026/09/liu-ting-moral-model-public-credential-history/Abstract In 2005, Liu Ting entered national news under the historical public name Liu Ting then used, written 刘霆, after bringing her mother, who had uremia, to live near Zhejiang Forestry University while she studied and provided daily care. Her mother received a kidney transplant in 2006, and the caregiving story continued to circulate through Spring Festival features, local honors, public-benefit activities, and awards. In 2007 she received