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The statistics out of the Beijing LGBT center are a little better than America and there are different hurdles to get over, but I think you're overstating things a bit here
Main thing is the party bans discriminatory language in the news about any group, so you don't have insane people talking about trans stuff 24/7 to incite genocide.
Dug into it, and there wasn't any reasons given, however some people that used to go there speculated the following:
The US Consulate was invited to speak at the center a couple of times... which seems uh... like an extremely bad decision. I've talked to people in China involved in centers and that is a HUGE no-no.
There were conflicts with neighboring buildings that led to them being kicked out of their building.
Unfortunately, a co-founder of the Beijing LGBT Center, Wan Yanhai, had ties to the NED, which the government has been cracking down on more recently. Yanhai had a fellowship with them. He was also one of the signatories of the Charter 08 manifesto, which called for the end of CCP rule and privatization of all state-owned enterprises. Also doesn’t really help that there are still some out of touch socially conservative boomers in the government, who believe LGBT activism to be a western plot. China is still overall making progress in LGBT rights, especially with younger Chinese being generally very supportive, but there are still occasional setbacks along the way like this.