From China Daily (photo: transsexual candidate Zhang Lei, via chinadaily.com.cn):
A 24-year-old male Chinese, determined to become a woman, got financial support Sunday from South Korean transsexual entertainer Ha Ri-su to finance his gender alteration surgery, Qilu Evening News reported Monday.
In 2005, Zhang told his parents about his transsexual plan, to his father’s fury and his mom’s tears.
Transsexuals came into the attention of the public only in recent years, but the news has been eruptible. Data showed that in China, a country where people traditionally don’t openly talk about sex, roughly 400,000 people, most of them men, have demanded to change into the opposite sex, among whom more than 1,000 have taken action. [Full Text]
