Comradeship // Freechat

I've got a friend from China over on Discord. He confided to us that he ended a friendship with someone today because they hated his transgender OC, and then proceeded to explain that it's a larger problem in China. Here's what he wrote:

To put it bluntly, almost the entire Internet environment in China is anti transgender.(Although China has protection laws for transgender individuals). CN ppl who saw the news that transgender people died of abuse by their parents and then went on cheering are countless i would say There are many people who use a small number of negative news to negate this group I was scolded for a long time just saying 'But that's not the reason why they were brutally killed', and even some people called me a disgrace to the country This is thanks to the media. About four years ago, the media began to put a large amount of negative news about LGBTQ community on the Chinese Internet The current issue is that rulers do not want to interfere too much with the LGBTQ issues and have not publicly expressed their stance (However, it is explicitly stated in the law that transgender individuals should enjoy the same rights as other citizens). However the voices of opposition from the public are very strong. such strong sense of fragmentation

I would like to learn more about this issue, and, if it's as he's saying, try to understand better why things are this way in China and what, if anything, is being done about this over there.