Quanjie stands in her shop and looks out into the hutong. Photo: Li HaoGT Recently Cheap Nike Air Max 270 Men's Grape , a transgender woman ran into a problem while trying to use a public bathroom. When she tried to use a woman's bathroom, she was called a pervert and a security guard threatened to call the police. This incident reflects problems many transgender people encounter in China, including the fact that the public doesn't know much about them, and there are only a few groups that fight to ensure their rights.
When I asked Quanjie how I should refer to her in this story, she laughed and joked "not he, not she, maybe 'it.'"
What she meant was, she didn't identify with either gender. She was assigned male at birth but now maintains a woman's appearance.
We later settled on "she," because of how she presents herself publicly.
At that time Cheap Nike Air Max 270 Men's Camo Heel , Quanjie sat across from me in her antique clothing shop in a colorful dress, dark coat and a brown hat with laces. She wore a purple pair of knitted leggings and high heels. She is tall, lean, and when she talked, she bowed her head to look at me, and sometimes she raised her hand - adorned with red nail polish - to tuck her hair behind her ear.
She called herself Chaoxiaomi, a name she uses in all her social media outlets, but people usually call her "Quanjie." Literally, the word means "sister circle Cheap Men's Black God Nike Air Max 270 Flyknit ," because, she explained, she's been in the circle for a long time. The transgender circle, she added.
Quanjie came to public attention two weeks ago, when she ran into some issues with a bathroom in a mall in the commercial area of Xidan, Beijing's Xicheng district. She was thrown out of a men's bathroom, but when she went into a women's one, she was called out by a security guard, who called her a pervert and threatened to call the police.
"The reality is Cheap Nike Air Max 270 Men's Hot Punch , not many people know about transgender people," Quanjie said. "They see a 'man' wearing a dress in a women's bathroom, they think you are a pervert."
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Quanjie always knew she was interested in men. For a long time, she thought she was gay, even though she liked women's clothes.
The turning point came in 2009. She liked a man, who seemed to also like her back. But one day, he said to her, "Can't you make your hair shorter?"
Back then, her hair was down to her shoulders. But she didn't want to cut it just to maintain a "man's appearance" in others' eyes Cheap Nike Air Max 270 Men's Light Bone , and his words triggered her to act on her buried feelings.
That evening, Quanjie went into a store and bought a pair of pantyhose, and put them on for the first time. She remembers the moment the fabric touched her legs, and how comfortable she immediately felt. Then, she put on a pair of high heels and walked out of her apartment.
The first people she encountered were a few construction workers. When they walked past her, most turned to look at her. She remembers hearing them say, "What a freak," but she didn't care.
Right now, most transgender people are still not visible in the Chinese society. There isn't an official count on how many transgender people live in China, despite research from grass-roots organizations.
Joanne Leung, founder of the Hong Kong-based Transgender Resource Center, wrote in Gossip Boys and Girls, a manual she put together in 2012 to provide information on transgender people, that some say 1 in 1,000 people is transgender, but others believe the actual number is larger.
Furthermore Cheap Nike Air Max 270 Men's Black Green , there is little information being presented to the public about transgender people. Many people don't even know this group exists, let alone distinguishing between transgender, transsexual, or cross-dressers. Right now, there is no policy or law that protects the rights of this group.
A rocky road
Being "free" has had consequences for Quanjie.
She often gets harassed in public for wearing skirts and heels. Once, she was riding on a bus when a passenger saw her wearing a dress and started harassing her, asking "What kind of monster are you?"
Other common issues include where to go to the bathroom and how to shop for clothes. Quanjie usually goes into fancy hotels to use their unisex bathrooms, while others simply hold it in until they get home.
Hitomi, a 16-year-old transgender man Cheap Men's Nike Air Max 270 Photo Blue , said another important issue for the community is getting hormone injections to change their appearance.
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