Ying Xin
Visiting Scholar
Ying Xin is the CEO of Xiaowusheng, a platform that provides gender-affirming mental health counseling. Previously, Xin served as the director of the Beijing LGBT Center, which was the foremost community-based grassroots organization dedicated to serving the diverse needs of China’s LGBTQ community. In her decade-long tenure, the Beijing LGBT Center built large first-of-their-kind networks of allied professionals in the health, business, and legal sectors to promote inclusion of and provide services to LGBT people; conducted pioneering research on LGBT issues in conjunction with Peking University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the United Nations Development Program; and advocated for the full depathologization of LGBTQ people, greater access to gender-affirming care, and equal employment rights. While a Visiting Scholar at both Yale Law School’s Global Health Justice Partnership and Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, Xin will research best practices in LGBT-affirming care and related policies and guidelines.