{"id":67812,"date":"2024-11-21T18:55:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T09:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/21\/transgender-woman-wins-record-payout-in-china-after-electroshock-treatment"},"modified":"2024-11-21T18:55:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T09:55:49","slug":"transgender-woman-wins-record-payout-in-china-after-electroshock-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67812","title":{"rendered":"Transgender woman wins record payout in China after electroshock treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case marks first time a trans person has successfully challenged use of such conversion practices in country<\/p>\n<p>A transgender woman in China has won a record amount of compensation from a hospital that subjected her to several sessions of electroshock conversion practices without her consent.<\/p>\n<p>Changli county people\u2019s court in Qinhuangdao, a city in Hebei, approved a 60,000 yuan (\u00a36,552) award to Ling\u2019er, a 28-year-old performance artist who was recorded male at birth but identifies as a woman. LGBTQ+ activists described the award, approved on 31 October, as a victory for trans rights in China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/21\/transgender-woman-wins-record-payout-in-china-after-electroshock-treatment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case marks first time a trans person has successfully challenged use of such conversion practices in countryA transgender woman in China has won a record amount of compensation from a hospital that subjected her to several sessions of electroshock conv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,572,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-transgender","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67813,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67812\/revisions\/67813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}