Transgender woman wins record payout in China after electroshock treatment

...then .....commit .......them???

Also I was really hoping that they were at least referring to ECT under full surgical level sedation & anesthesia which, while wildly inappropriate for gender dysphoria, would at least be a modern therapeutic intervention (it's an induced controlled seizure done under complete surgical anesthesia) but no, after reading it sounds like they were basically just wiring her nipples up to a car battery. They don't state that explicitly but she mentions fainting... wait. She mentions cardiac arrhythmias. That would actually be consistent with the shocks having been applied to the chest area. Jfc.

She is the one at risk of suicide not them.

Transphobes are always making it about themselves with their histrionics.

Not really - face and outward appearance to the group is ridiculously important in Asian cultures.

The point that we should all be angry with is that the parents (and there social group) viewed transgender as something so inherently bad that the shame warrants suicide.

Fuck the transphobes.

The way many Asian countries view relationships between parents, offspring, and social status is very, very different than what we're used to in the West, and while it's all just more social constructs and norms being maintained like we know here, the similarities end there.

It would take a long to really explain, and several dozen people would chime in to say how their own family and upbringing was different, so it's not really something you can "teach" but it's worth pointing out that our normal lense in which we view family is not going to make sense looking at some families in other areas.

not just trauma but also heart problems that require medication...

incredibly fucked up but the hospital getting a slap on the wrist is a good first step at least.

This is not the right way to put it. She won 60,000 CNY, not 8,000 USD. A "low-wage" worker at a fast food restaurant or a coffee shop in the city earns 20-30 CNY per hour.

This is a pretty substantial payout by Chinese standards. At the same time, China doesn't recognise "punitive" damages or "emotional damages" as a thing. The response to the notion of "punitive damages" is "don't you mean a fine?", and that to "emotional damages" is that "there is no such thing, you can just get over it".

I guess they don't have a hippocratic oath over there.

Yeahhhh... a payout of 8k for essentially being tortured is not a win.

this is an achievement BECAUSE it's China, how tf is this a w

This seems outrageous for the US, but with universal health care, the cost of living in China and the legal difficulties to get a payout in medical malpractice. This is a significant win for that woman and their legal system.