The KMT and TPP seem set to take aim at Taiwan’s domestic submarine program in the upcoming legislative session, with questions about whether the pan-Blue camp will engage in the same scorched earth tactics that characterized the first legislative session...
In recent months, Taiwan’s anti-gender movement has engaged in a research misconduct and misinformation campaign to push specious claims about “general population attitudes” towards transgender rights through the facade of academic objectivity. In the wake of the Taipei High Administrative Court’s second ruling against compulsory surgery for changing one’s legal gender on May 30th, anti-gender movement actors such as No-Self ID Taiwan, Twitter account @memetranspolicy, and US expat co-founder of Taiwan Women’s Association Jaclynn Joyce all published or shared articles referencing “an online questionnaire survey” conducted by “scholars working at various universities across Taiwan” that “sought to understand the general public’s views on self-identification, meaning surgery-free change of legal sex,” which was “published in the academic journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.” Citations to this research article were made to argue that “more than 90% of Taiwanese people strongly oppose changing someone’s legal sex without so-called sex reassignment surgery.” Further investigation into this research article revealed a plethora of research misconduct, mistranslation, and misinformation issues, which begs into question how such an article was published in a peer-reviewed academic journal in the first place. ...
Issues of political corruption continue to be prevalent in Taiwanese politics, as a number of recent incidents go to show. This has drawn in politicians both pan-Blue and pan-Green...
Yesterday, the Taipei Administrative Court ruled in favor of transgender plaintiff Lisbeth Wu’s case to change her legal gender without providing proof of sexual organ removal surgery. Despite being the first strategic litigation case that the Taiwan Alliance for Civil Partnership Rights took on that was aimed at challenging the current Ministry of Interior executive order (內政部97年11月3日內授中戶字第0970066240號令) requiring proof of surgery for changing one’s legal gender, Wu had to wait almost four long years before receiving the THAC’s ruling yesterday...
Taiwan has continued to see obstacles to cross-strait gay marriages, in spite of that barriers to transnational gay marriages were lifted in January 2023. Nevertheless, a partial victory was won earlier this month, with recognition of the marriage of a Taiwanese and Chinese couple as the third case of recognition of a cross-strait marriage. The first two cases were from Hong Kong and Macau...
President Lai Ching-te indicated an openness to nuclear energy in an unusual set of remarks earlier this month. Lai stated that his administration did not rule out the use of advanced nuclear technology, but that this would only proceed on the basis of social consensus...
The Taiwan Railways Union has criticized a 40% increase in salary for the chair and general manager of the Taiwan Railways Corporation. This means that the chair of the TRC will make 191,380 NT per month and the general manager will make 187,130 NT per month...
Earlier this month, with the approval of the US Democratic Party’s 2024 platform, the policy document included the “Six Assurances” to Taiwan for the first time...
The possibility of Taiwan restoring diplomatic relations with Honduras has been floated after the idea was floated by former vice president, Salvador Nasralla, who is running as a candidate in the 2025 Honduran presidential elections...
Ko Wen-je and the TPP continue to suffer successive political controversies, with regards to charges of corruption or mismanagement. At this point, it is probably accurate to deem the current controversies faced by the TPP as among the party’s largest political crises to date...
