Exchange Program Brings Seattle Transgender Activist to China

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Exchange Program Brings Seattle Transgender Activist to China
by Shaun Knittel
EDGE Contributor
Monday Nov 7, 2011

http://www.edgeboston.com/news/local///126504/exchange_program_brings_seattle_transgender_activist_to_china

A transgender activist from Seattle spent 15 days in China last month, working with Chinese LGBT activists as part of a Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center-sponsored exchange program.

"I met some amazing young activists-all of them under 30," said Marsha Botzer upon her return to the United States. "Since China is China, they're going to guide the world."

Although the numbers are hard to document, the world's most populous country certainly has an enormous LGBT population. "Oh, millions!" exclaimed Botzer. "The largest LGBT population in the world! That's why it's going to make a difference."