Why would China’s government bother to ban effeminate men from TV, as it did in a new regulation a couple of weeks ago? Broadcasters must “resolutely put an end to sissy men and other abnormal aesthetics”, said the TV regulator, employing an insulting vernacular which literally translates to “girlie guns”. China’s internet increasingly is scrubbed of anything related to sexual minorities. From the repression of "effeminate men" to "unreasonable incomes", all the elements of what the party is calling the Great Transformation have one thing in common – they are all about...