By Mike Frick
Recently, Chinese activists have drawn attention to discriminatory statements by the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA). The CCAA has publicly stated that it does not permit Chinese gays and lesbians to adopt children. In a message posted on its website, the agency says that medicine considers homosexuality a type of medical illness and a”sexual disorder”, that Chinese law does not recognize homosexual families, and that homosexuality is a “behavior contrary to public morality.” The Chinese Society of Psychiatry declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder in 2001.
