1/ S. Korea's Ministry of Justice was recommended to create guidelines about how to guarantee the human rights of LGBTQ inmates. So it did.

Except it contains hate speech, calls trans people "female-dressing male", "shemale", "hefemale" etc. http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=202011231700011&code=940100

2/ Background: LGBTQ inmates face severe discrimination in South Korean prisons and detention facilities.

For instance, in this story that barely made the news, a detention facility in Daegu placed a male inmate in solitary confinement for being gay. https://medium.com/@koryodynasty/korean-detention-centre-puts-inmate-in-solitary-confinement-for-being-gay-d38184afb8a

3/ In a separate incident, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea found that transgender inmates had their human rights violated by correctional facility employees who did not allow hormone therapy medication etc.

4/ Discrimination against LGBTQ inmates is so rampant that the National Human Rights Commission of Korea last year recommended to the Justice Ministry to investigate what was going on, and come up with guidelines about how it will deal with guaranteeing their human rights.

5/ Fast forward to 2020, and the Justice Ministry *did* make guidelines, but kept them secret, didn't want anyone to see them. The Catholic Human Rights Commission etc demanded to see the content, were rejected. So they requested an administrative trial. http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/969234.html

6/ 2 weeks ago, the Central Administrative Appeals Commission ruled that it wasn't right for the Ministry of Justice not to disclose the content of the LGBTQ inmate human rights guidelines.

The Catholic Human Rights Commission was in for a nasty surprise. https://twitter.com/koryodynasty/status/1325657170638110721

7/ The guidelines which the Justice Ministry says "respects the sexual orientation of sexual minorities & protects against prejudice" divides LGTBQ into:

- "transsexual" (sometimes uses "transgender")
- "homosexual"
- "bisexual"
- "female-dressing male"
- "male-dressing female"

8/ The guidelines don't recognise trans men/women who haven't undergone surgery, merely calling them by derogatory discriminatory terms "female-dressing male" (여장남자) or "male-dressing female" (남장여자).

Wait, there's more.

9/ The Ministry of Justice defines a "female-dressing male" (basically a trans woman) as a "person whose gender is male but wears clothes that emphasise feminine beauty or is feminised through hormone therapy", and defines the opposite for "male-dressing female".

10/ It also gives the English equivalents of these discriminatory terms:

- "female-dressing male" >> "shemale"
- "male-dressing female" >> "hefemale"

There's more.

11/ It then says to treat "female-dressing males" and "male-dressing females" (basically trans who haven't had surgery) "by their biological sex".

Thus, trans women who haven't had surgery must be inspected by men, bathe with men, and wear men's clothes and shoes.

12/ The guidelines also say that LGBTQ inmates should be separated from the rest for everything. Exercise, haircuts, and interviews must be done alone, while religious events, medical treatment etc must be done separate.

And to put up a curtain in the living room area.

13/ Turns out that the Justice Ministry revised and supplemented the guidelines in April, changed some words like "female-dressing male" and "male-dressing female" to "opposite sex-dressing person" thinking it had solved the problem.

Zero understanding whatsoever.

I just can't.