Chinese activist loses legal battle over homophobic textbooks
stopping all its activities and events for safety reasons.Xixi, who is originally from Guangdong in southern China, says she has experienced homophobia throughout her time in the Chinese education system from teachers, classmates and in teaching materials."The entire social atmosphere of mainland China is incredibly homophobic," she said.The case is the second unsuccessful legal battle against homophobic textbooks in recent years, after LGBT student activist Qiu Bai repeatedly – but unsuccessfully – sued the education ministry.Some LGBT-related lawsuits have won in China, including the landmark case of a transgender woman who sued her employer for discrimination, after being fired for taking leave to undergo gender reassignment surgery."If.
