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Ying Xin

China, 2019
Executive Director, Beijing LGBT Center
Ying is the executive director of Beijing LGBT Center. Since 2009, she has been actively campaigning for LGBT rights in China. At the Beijing LGBT Center, Ying has led advocacy and awareness campaigns against conversion therapy for LGBT persons and for the removal of homosexuality from the Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders. Ying also co-curated the China Women’s Film Festival and co-founded Wuhan Rainbow, a community-based LGBT organization. Ying was an initiator of the National Survey on Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression in China conducted in partnership with the United Nations Development Program and Peking University. She also initiated the first National Survey on Living Conditions of Transgender People in China.
Ying holds a bachelor’s and master’s in public administration from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law and a bachelor’s in Japanese from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.