The biggest legislative improvement for queer people in Singapore this century:
- the government finally removed the anti-sodomy British era law a few years ago
- they ‘gave’ us this in consultation with religious groups who were assured that ‘we’ will not ask for marriage or adoption rights
- they also made it impossible for any of this to be fought for through the courts
- and made something already hard (same sex adoption and surrogacy) pretty much now impossible
Even for straight people, women who do IVF need ‘permission’ from their husbands. Most queer people had to go to Thailand to do it.
This conversation captures perspectives from ‘all sides’, but let’s be real, it’s the evangelical Chinese Singaporean Christians who are the primary homophobes and transphobes.
In the mid ‘10s I was more optimistic about change. I am no longer.
To be sure, the repeal of 377A was massive! It also feels like massive cost.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askSingapore/comments/1reazwe/do_you_think_samesex_marriage_will_ever_be/