How are LGBT people treated in North Korea? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by TheUltimateLemon@lemmygrad.ml to c/transcommunism@lemmygrad.ml

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I am asking this because I have seen some posts in this community in solidarity with North Korea. I have heard before that trans people get reassignment surgery paid for them in North Korea but I don't know if that is true. When I tried googling it most of the stuff that came up said that North Korea was not the best for gay people and it didn't come up with much for how trans people are treated in North Korea. If you guys have any articles or information sources about the LGBT situation in North Korea could you link them to me, it would be very appreciated.

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[-] MLRiderTom@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

The law in North Korea states absolutely nothing about anything LGBT related (So nothing is explicitly illegal, but at the same time it seems that they simply do not believe in homosexuality as a concept or something)

In 2008, the DPRK voted against the UN's declaration on sexual orientation/gender identity , which condemns discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Based on this, I would say that they are anti-lgbt.

I'm guessing it's a very taboo topic over there anyways and yeah just not something they'd be very accepting of. They're generally very conservative and find the whole having a traditional family with children thing very important.

In general though (and I'm saying this as an ML), Marxist-Leninist states have not been very accepting of the LGBT, with the exception of Cuba recently. Hopefully this is something we can change once we have create a socialist project in the west :)

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