Gender/Sexuality

2025 Taiwan Pride Controversy Deepens, Further Doubts Raised Over TWRCAA’s Stance on Transgender and Sexual Rights

Yo-Ling Chen
With the 23rd Taiwan LGBT+ Pride parade set to take place in Taipei this Saturday, new developments have cast further doubts as to whether the Taiwan Rainbow Civil Action Association (TWRCAA, 臺灣彩虹公民行動協會), Taiwan Pride’s main organizer, truly supports transgender and sexual rights...
EnglishGender/SexualityOctober 2025Social Movements15 min read

“Turning Point Taiwan” Memorial Turns Violent as Religious Right Gains Momentum in Taiwan

Yo-Ling Chen
Yesterday morning during a memorial event entitled “Love, Faith, Courage: A Memorial for Charlie Kirk in Taiwan” organized by the Formosa Republican Association (FRA, 福和會) and co-organized by the Taiwan Solidarity Party (TSP, 台聯黨), the Taiwan Teachers’ Union (台灣教師聯盟), Taiwan Liberty Society (台灣自由學會), and the Taiwan Human Rights and Cultural Association, student protestors from National Chengchi University, National Taiwan Normal University and Soochow University disrupted the event and were promptly met with physical violence...
EnglishGender/SexualityOctober 2025PoliticsSocial MovementsYouth Movements12 min read

2025 Taiwan Pride Controversy Explained: 
LGBTQ+ Community Speaks Out Against Transphobia and Contempt for Sexual Rights

Yo-Ling Chen
This past week, controversy erupted throughout Taiwan’s LGBTQ+ community after it was discovered that the Administrative and Public Relations Director of this year’s Taiwan Pride march posted on her personal Threads account content that was deemed as transphobic, against sexual rights, and even contemptuous towards the work of previous Taiwan Pride organizers. This discovery sparked widespread outrage amongst Taiwan’s LGBTQ+ community, with multiple individuals and organizations criticizing Pride organizers and speaking up in support of transgender people and sexual rights...
EnglishGender/SexualityOctober 2025Social Movements32 min read

Gender Equity and Taiwan’s Independence: A Decolonial Perspective on Community Interests and Conflicts

Lorraine Pan
Can gender equity issues like women's and LGBTQ rights be discussed along with Taiwan independence? Is there one more important and urgent topic among all the issues concerning different marginalized people? When issues such as feminism and LGBTQ rights are discussed together with social news, there is often criticism that talking about marginalized people is a way to distract people and divert public resources from the issue of Taiwan independence. However, from a decolonial perspective, gender equity and Taiwan independence move in the same direction and support each other...
EnglishGender/SexualityMay 2025Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements5 min read