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Civil Society Groups Ask Control Yuan to Investigate Ministry of the Interior for Maintaining Compulsory Surgery

Yo-Ling Chen
This morning at 10 AM, civil society groups held a press conference outside of the Control Yuan to condemn the Ministry of the Interior’s (MOI) inaction in changing its 2008 executive order (內政部97年11月3日內授中戶字第0970066240號令) requiring sexual organ removal surgery to change one’s legal gender, despite a total of six administrative court rulings in the past three years that clearly condemn the surgery requirement. After the press conference, a group of civil society group representatives and transgender community members met privately with a Control Yuan official to cordially request that the Control Yuan open an investigation on the MOI for delaying the abolition of compulsory surgery...
EnglishGender/SexualityMarch 2025Social Movements10 min read

Obstacles Remain for Transnational Gay Marriages, Despite Marriage of Taiwan-Macau Gay Couple

Brian Hioe
A marriage between a Taiwanese man and his partner from Macau have been hailed as a landmark for transnational gay marriages in Taiwan. The marriage, which took place between Ting Tse-yan and his partner Guzifer Leong, who is from Macau, took place yesterday and was registered at the Zhongzheng District Household Registration Office. The marriage could happen because of a ruling by the Taipei High Administrative Court in May...
August 2021EnglishGender/SexualitySocial Movements6 min read