Ou, who also uses the name Xixi, brought a lawsuit demanding that the publisher remove the reference and publicly apologize.
Ou felt that was unacceptable, but the complaints she made went nowhere. In 2016, during her first year at South China Agricultural University in her hometown, Guangzhou, she stumbled across a psychology textbook that described being gay as a mental disorder.Īs a lesbian, Ms. And two, it can be hard to change them - especially on topics as sensitive in China as homosexuality. Early in college, Ou Jiayong had already learned two things.
