Despite the country's legislative changes towards queer and trans rights in recent years, professionals of minority gender and sexuality in Vietnam’s public sector are still facing discrimination, hurting the very institutions that are pushing them out.
From left to right: Nguyen Viet Chien on trial and portrait of Nguyen Van Hai (credit: AFP/Tuoi Tre). Background: BBC News Vietnamese. Graphic: The Vietnamese Magazine.
Son Nguyen is a writer specializing in Vietnam's modern history and authoritarian state-building. He also writes about contemporary social issues and domestic politics. He has a degree in History.
This article was written in Vietnamese by Bui Cong Truc and previously published
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