China’s first non-profit foundation dedicated to training legal talents and offering legal aid to the LGBTQ community was launched on Tuesday by three Chinese lawyers and a law professor. According to the founders, one major reason they wanted to start the non-profit is because many members of the LGBTQ community in China, which has more than 70 million members according to estimates, lack access to useful information about the law and legal aid when they experience discrimination and unequal treatment at places such as campuses and workplaces. According to a survey about Chinese LGBTQ people’s living conditions from the United Nations Development Program in 2017, 77 percent of LGBTQ students have experienced discrimination at school, and the response rate of sexual minorities was 5-7 percent lower than that of the mainstream population while job hunting. “We hope to help through legal means LGBTQ people who encounter discrimination and injustice, and promote the legal protection of sexual minorities as well as public understanding and acceptance of them,” said a statement published by the foundation, known as the DF Fund, on WeChat.