The thing is they dont have daily wall to wall opinion pieces about how lgbt+ people are demonic.

They really dont have tabloid newspapers generating endless moral panics against minorties; so while legal protection is behind, people are just apatethic, they genuinally dont care about these things and co-exist with criticism lgbt+ people.

Its not perfect, but its also uniquely not violent either.

sadly yes, they are having a hard time shaking off british colonial laws, even tho culturally is very open to homosexuals, trans and even non-binary, i do need to read properly if this stems from confucianism or taoist and other local religions.

i watch a guy that lives there, he says that basically the country is governed by old man, but the communist youth is coming in strong, so in the future in can expect advances.