Student Sues Gov't over Textbook that Claims Homosexuality is 'Disorder'

(Beijing) – A Beijing court on June 14 accepted a woman's case against the Ministry of Education, which is asking authorities to revise textbooks that still refer to homosexuality as a "psychological disorder".

The woman, known by the pseudonym Qiubai, is a lesbian studying at Sun Yat-sen University in the southern city of Guangzhou. She submitted the case on June 3 to the First Beijing Intermediate People's Court in her third attempt to have homophobic material removed from college textbooks.