Vietnam clar beg LGBTQ+ is ‘not an illns’ victory for gay rights | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• VIETNAM CLAR BEG LGBTQ+ IS ‘NOT AN ILLNS’ VICTORY FOR GAY RIGHTS
• GAY VIETNAM: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??
• VIETNAM SAYS HOMOSEXUALY ‘NOT A DISEASE’ W FOR GAY RIGHTS

VIETNAM CLAR BEG LGBTQ+ IS ‘NOT AN ILLNS’ VICTORY FOR GAY RIGHTS

Acrdg to a recent report published by the Asia branch of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, many people the Vietname LGBTQ+ muny feel like the ernment is takg advantage of LGBTQ+ rights Vietnam as pensatn for other vlatns of human rights. Even though the law Vietnam has been more iendly towards LGBTQ+ people (or at least prciple) and the ernment has been pledgg to improve the ndns of the muny, LGBTQ+ people Vietnam still face tremendo discrimatn om society and prsure om their fai to nform to a “normal” heteronormative example, there is an issue of homosexual dividuals marryg people of different genr due to the prsure om eher society or their fay. [8] Homosexual dividuals also engage marriage arrangements wh other homosexual dividuals of a different genr to please their fai on both to the ernment’s efficiency draftg regulatns for transgenr people, unrgog hormone therapy or other related medil procr remas extremely difficult and dangero, not to mentn very stly.

[11]The 2021 electns for the Natnal Assembly and the lol People’s Commtee Hanoi saw the appearance of Luong The Huy, the first openly gay ndidate nng for both offic. Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) people Vietnam face legal challeng not experienced by non-LGBT rints. Beg gay, bisexual or transgenr should not be nsired an illns and nnot be treated, the Vietnam ernment has announced “a huge paradigm shift” LGBTQ+ rights the Mistry of Health said medil profsnals should treat LGBTQ+ people wh rpect and ensure they are not discrimated an announcement sent to provcial and municipal health partments earlier this month, and posted on the ernment webse, the mistry said beg LGBTQ+ “is entirely not an illns” so “nnot be ‘cured’ nor need[s] to be ‘cured’ and nnot be nverted any way” said that medics should not “terfere nor force treatment” on LGBTQ+ patients.

GAY VIETNAM: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??

In November, the Leave wh Pri mpaign om the Instute for Studi of Society, Enomy, and Environment (iSEE) petned the World Health Organizatn Vietnam to affirm that beg gay is not a disease. “The myth that homosexualy is diagnosable has been allowed to permeate and perlate Vietname society. Vietnam’s new directive stat that “the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn and the World Health Organizatn (WHO) have nfirmed that homosexualy is entirely not an illns, therefore homosexualy nnot be ‘cured’ nor need[s] to be ‘cured’ and nnot be nverted any way.

“The Vietname Health Mistry’s regnn that sexual orientatn and genr inty are not illns will brg relief to LGBT people and their fai across Vietnam, ” said Kyle Knight, senr health and lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch. Rearchers have wrten that Vietnam never officially adopted the ial posn of the WHO, which troduced a diagnosis for homosexualy 1969.

Sce the homosexualy diagnosis appears to have never officially been on the books Vietnam, therefore the ernment never officially removed the diagnosis, as many untri around the world did when the WHO classified 1990.

VIETNAM SAYS HOMOSEXUALY ‘NOT A DISEASE’ W FOR GAY RIGHTS

The ernment’s treatment of homosexualy as viant behavr, bed wh proment medil figur promotg this view, fueled the wispread belief that same-sex attractn was pathologil. Pervasive myths about homosexualy have an impact on children and youth. The anthropologist Natalie Newton wrote a 2015 article that, “Vietname newspaper advice lumns have also featured the opns of medil doctors and psychologists who have wrten about homosexualy as a disease of the body, a geic disorr, hormonal imbalance, or mental illns.