One’s Sex Is Private and Changeable
One’s Sex Is Private
Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights (TAPCPR) has claimed that one’s sex is a piece of private information which the nation should have no right to collect.
One’s sex is a piece of private information which the nation should have no right to collect.
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The conference about Taiwan’s GRA on 16 Oct.
Source: The conference about Taiwan’s GRA on 16 Oct.
It also stood against the transgender markers on ID cards. It proposed that these markers would cause troubles of explanation for transgender people.
These transgender markers would cause troubles of explanation for transgender people.
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PTS’ Official Website
Source: PTS’ Official Website
Sex Differences Do Not Exist
TAPCPR has deemed that sex differences do not and suppose not to exist; therefore, spaces and sports should not be divided by sexes. We can see this view from its and its’ supporters’ comments.
TAPCPR has deemed that sex differences do not and suppose not to exist.
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TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
Source: TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
One’s Sex Is Changeable
Furthermore, from its training plan for seed teachers and website for transgender equality, we have noticed that for TAPCPR, one’s sex may change due to endocrine disorders, menopause, HRT, SRS, and so on. With this statement, TAPCPR has implied that trans people can change their sexes; further, it has suggested that a man/ woman is not a male/ female if he or she has an endocrine disorder, enter the menopause or, does not have a sexual organ (e. g. the women who do not have wombs or are infertile).
TAPCPR has deemed that one’s sex is changeable.
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Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Source: Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Medical Workers Need Not to Know Their Patients’ Sexes
In its Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”, the general secretary of TAPCPR, Zhi-Jie Jian, said that one’s sex is their privacy; therefore, most first-line and second-line medical workers need not to know their patients’ sexes.
The Open Chat on Line (1)
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TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
Source: TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
The Open Chat on Line (2)
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TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
Source: TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
The Open Chat on Line (3)
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TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
Source: TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
The Open Chat on Line (4)
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TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
Source: TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
The Open Chat on Line (5)
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TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
Source: TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
The Open Chat on Line (6)
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TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
Source: TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
The Open Chat on Line (7)
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TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
Source: TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
The Open Chat on Line (8)
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TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
Source: TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
The Open Chat on Line (9)
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TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
Source: TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
The Open Chat on Line (10)
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TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
Source: TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
The Open Chat on Line (11)
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TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
Source: TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
The Open Chat on Line (12)
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TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
Source: TAPCPR’s Open Chat on Line, “Gender Diversity in Taoyuan”
Taiwan’s Gender Recognition Act (GRA)
The Aim is Self-ID
TAPCPR’s final goal is gender self-ID. Namely, one can change the sex marker on his or her ID card by “self-identification”. Its current goal is to remove SRS from the proves for changing one’s ID card. It also has suggested that two medical diagnoses of gender dysphoria are a good proof to one’s steady gender identity. In other words, it has never tended to offer any supplement to Taiwan’s Gender Recognition Act.
TAPCPR has deemed that submitting an affidavit of self-identification is the most reliable method to change one’s sex marker on the ID card.
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ETtoday News
Source: ETtoday News
The best solution is self-ID.
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Post on Facebook
Source: Post on Facebook
Its short-term goal is to remove SRS from the proves for changing one’s ID card. The requirement for two diagnoses of gender dysphoria is easy to fulfill for many trans.
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TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
Source: TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
The requirement for two diagnoses of gender dysphoria is unreasonable but is rather easy to fulfill for many trans. The reform that removing this requirement from laws can be discussed in the future.
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TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
Source: TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
In Xiao E’s lawsuit, the judges did not say the key is the two physicians’ diagnoses. Rather, they deemed Xiao E’s “female gender identity” became steady through her descriptions, medical reports, and real-life photos.
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TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
Source: TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
Two medical diagnoses of gender dysphoria are a good proof to one’s steady gender identity so no supplements are needed for Taiwan’s Gender Recognition Act (GRA).
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TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
Source: TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
Conceal the Real Condition Happening Globally
TAPCPR has claimed that the trans woman criminals are not “true trans” or belong to the random cases. It also has criticized that women’s fear is irrational and boundless; thus, it should not be dealt by laws.
The concerns about global cases are irrational fears.
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2021/TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
Source: 2021/TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
The trans women criminals of global cases are not true trans but the men who exploit the GRA.
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2021/TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
Source: 2021/TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
Laws do not deal with anyone’s boundless fears.
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2021/TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
Source: 2021/TAPCPR’s Conference about Taiwan’s GRA on Oct. 16
The case of Karen White is “strictly speaking” not related to Taiwan’s GRA
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Post on Facebook
Source: Post on Facebook
Controversial data and researches still can prove that trans women do not influence the safety of female restrooms.
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Post on Facebook
Source: Post on Facebook
However, it published an article about a trans man who preferred male prisons on its fan page—in order to cover the dangers which would be brought by trans women in female prisons.
The routine of female prisons is to check whether female criminals hide drugs and weapons in their vaginas. However, TAPCPR distorted this fact as a penis check against the trans man criminal.
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Post on Facebook
Source: Post on Facebook
Gender Discrimination
Lobby for the Equality Act
In the draft of the Equality Act, TAPCPR has added one’s gender identity. It has claimed that “the people who already change or seek to change their sexes could suffer from gender discrimination” hence “any rejection to their access to products, service, and facilities” is a type of gender discrimination.
Source: Executive Yuan’s Seed Training Plan for LGBT Rights
The protected characteristics of gender discrimination include “the people who already change or seek to change their sexes”.
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PowerPoint of draft of the Anti-Discrimination Act (the Equality Act)
Source: PowerPoint of draft of the Anti-Discrimination Act (the Equality Act)
The type of gender discrimination includes “any rejection to their access to products, service, and facilities”.
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PowerPoint of draft of the Anti-Discrimination Act (the Equality Act)
Source: PowerPoint of draft of the Anti-Discrimination Act (the Equality Act)
Refuse to date with Trans People is Discriminatory
TAPCPR has implied that refusing to date with trans people is discriminatory. Also, it has suggested that cis-gender people should “challenge their own prejudices and befriend with trans people”.
Gender-Identity-Based Restrooms
In its training plan for seed teachers, TAPCPR tried to obfuscate the ideas of home restrooms, family restrooms, racial separation, and Yong-Zhi Ye Incident with public restrooms divided by sexes. It tried to make a conclusion that “sex-based restrooms are nonsense” in order to promote the idea of “gender-identity-based restrooms”.
For more details, see the training plan.
One’s gender has multiple combinations. (1)
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Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Source: Training Plan for Seed Teachers
One’s gender has multiple combinations. (2)
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Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Source: Training Plan for Seed Teachers
One’s gender has multiple combinations. (3)
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Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Source: Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Restroom Problem: Which restroom will a mother/ father take the son/ daughter to?
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Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Source: Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Restroom Problem: Why do women need more restrooms? Why do families use the same restroom?
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Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Source: Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Restroom Problem: Why do trans have to use the gender-friendly restrooms like black people did? Why did the feminine boy, Yong-Zhi Ye, die in the male restroom?
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Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Source: Training Plan for Seed Teachers
TAPCPR regarded Yong-Zhi Ye as a trans woman though Ye had never talked about his gender.
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Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Source: Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Gender-friendly restrooms separate trans people from others.
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Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Source: Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Sex or gender separation should not exist in spaces and awards.
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Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Source: Training Plan for Seed Teachers
A trans woman insisted that even if her penis could not be hidden under the swimming suit, she should be allowed to use female changing room.
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Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Source: Training Plan for Seed Teachers
Other Cases of Gender Discrimination
For other cases of gender discrimination, TAPCPR gave several examples such as the trans woman who was arranged to live in a gender-friendly dormitory instead of the female one, the trans woman’s requirement for using the female restroom was rejected by the company and so on and so forth. For more details, see TAPCPR’s lawsuits in the past .
Censorship and Language
Regarding Trans Women as Biological Women in CEDAW
In the UN’s “The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)”, the definition that “the elimination of discrimination against women” is the differentiation, exclusion, and limitation which are based on sex. However, Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights (TAPCPR) regarded trans women as biological women in its shadow report to Taiwan’s government.
Trans Women was regarded as biological women by TAPCPR in its shadow report on CEDAW
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TAPCPR’s Shadow Report on CEDAW
Source: TAPCPR’s Shadow Report on CEDAW
Accusing the Media of Misgendering
For Ms. Yang’s lawsuit, Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights (TAPCPR) has emphasized that Ms. Yang is a woman—despite the fact that she neither receives sex reassignment surgery nor changes her ID card. Further, it has accused Taiwan’s media that their misgendering of Ms. Yang as “Mr. Yang” is an implication suggesting to reinforce the public’s wrong impression that “the person is a male”. In its conclusion, those pieces of news would make it harder for Ms. Yang to win the public’s approval for her need for using the company’s female restroom.
TAPCPR has accused Taiwan’s media that their misgendering of Ms. Yang as “Mr. Yang” is an implication suggesting to reinforce the public’s wrong impression that “the person is a male”.
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Post on Facebook
Source: Post on Facebook
TAPCPR’s comparison of two media’s different references to Yang.
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Post on Facebook
Source: Post on Facebook
Threatening to Sue the Attendant
On 16 Oct. 2021, TAPCPR has held an open conference about Xiao E and Taiwan’s GRA. Some people complained that they did not get the notification after sending out the application even though TAPCPR’s general secretary (Zhi-Jie Jian) explained that every application was granted. When one of the attendants shared the recording, TAPCPR restated it as a private conference. On its Facebook fan page, its general secretary (Zhi-Jie Jian) and lawyer (Xiu-Wen Xu) threatened to sue that attendant unless the recording was removed from the internet.
TAPCPR was advocating its open conference about Taiwan’s GRA. (p1)
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Post on Facebook
Source: Post on Facebook
TAPCPR was advocating its open conference about Taiwan’s GRA. (p2)
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Post on Facebook
Source: Post on Facebook
A Plurk user reported that only the member of trans community would get the notification after sending out the application.
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Plurk
Source: Plurk
On 19 Nov., TAPCPR insisted that its conference was not trans-only.
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Comment under Simple Information’s Post on Facebook
Source: Comment under Simple Information’s Post on Facebook
In one of the comments, a person also complained that she did not get the notification.
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Comment under Simple Information’s Post on Facebook
Source: Comment under Simple Information’s Post on Facebook
On 2 Dec., TAPCPR restated that it as a private conference.
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Post on Facebook
Source: Post on Facebook
TAPCPR’s general secretary (Zhi-Jie Jian) and lawyer (Xiu-Wen Xu) threatened to sue that attendant unless the recording was removed from the internet. (1)
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Post on Facebook
Source: Post on Facebook
TAPCPR’s general secretary (Zhi-Jie Jian) and lawyer (Xiu-Wen Xu) threatened to sue that attendant unless the recording was removed from the internet. (2)
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Post on Facebook
Source: Post on Facebook
TAPCPR’s general secretary (Zhi-Jie Jian) and lawyer (Xiu-Wen Xu) threatened to sue that attendant unless the recording was removed from the internet. (3)
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Post on Facebook
Source: Post on Facebook
Children and Adolescents
Promote the Gender Affirmative Model
In TAPCPR’s 2018 Forum, a psychiatrist, Mu-Hong Chen, has encouraged that gender care can be offered to 2-year-old kids. He also has suggested that HRT can be offered to underage people.
In TAPCPR’s 2018 Forum, a psychiatrist, Mu-Hong Chen, has encouraged that gender care can be offered to 2-year-old kids. He also has suggested that HRT can be offered to underage people.
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TAPCPR’s Official Website
Source: TAPCPR’s Official Website
Use of Puberty Blockers
The psychiatrist, Zhi-Yun Xu, has been collaborating with Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights (TAPCPR) for a long time. (Xu is an attending physician of MOHW’s Kinmen Hospital and adjunct attending physician of NTU Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry. He is an ex-Dean of TTHA.) Xu admitted that he gave puberty blockers to a 5th grade student who had gender dysphoria.
In “Gender Dysphoria in Children and Adolescents—Literature Review”, a physician gave puberty blockers to a 5th grade student who had gender dysphoria.
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“Gender Dysphoria in Children and Adolescents—Literature Review”
Source: “Gender Dysphoria in Children and Adolescents—Literature Review”
As it is reported in the article, the anonymous physician is supposed to be Zhi-Yun Xu, the keynote speaker of the seminar.
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The Agenda of 2019 Seminar on Adolescent Medicine
Source: The Agenda of 2019 Seminar on Adolescent Medicine
Surrogate Mothers for Trans Women
In 2019, TAPCPR executed a program with Men Having Babies. The program, GPAP, offered some allowance to the gay men or trans women who would like to find surrogate mothers in other nations.
TAPCPR introduced its program, GPAP.
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TAPCPR’s Official Website
Source: TAPCPR’s Official Website
GPAP offered some allowance to the gay men or trans women who would like to find surrogate mothers in other nations.
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TAPCPR’s Official Website
Source: TAPCPR’s Official Website
Their Supporters’ Comments
Intersex, Transgender and Transsexual People Care Association (ISTS Care)
ISTS Care has been in a long-term collaboration with TAPCPR. Its director, Yi-Ting Wu, not only supported self-ID but also insisted that all restrooms should be modified as “unisex restrooms”. Besides, she has threatened to sue the people who suspected trans women as male predators and tried to expel them from female restrooms.
ISTS Care’s director, Yi-Ting Wu, deemed that all restrooms in the Executive Yuan should be modified as “unisex restrooms”.
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Up Media
Source: Up Media
ISTS Care claimed that Taiwan’s government should promote self-ID as Argentina’s government did.
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The News Lens
Source: The News Lens
Wu has threatened to sue the people who suspected trans women as male predators and tried to expel them from female restrooms.
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The News Lens
Source: The News Lens
ISTS Care held the same opinion as TAPCPR did. It has deemed that one’s sex is private and rejected the idea of putting transgender markers on ID cards. It also has deemed that the sex markers on ID cards should be decided by individuals. In 2015, Executive Yuan’s Ministry of the Interior planned to draft the Gender Recognition Act with supplements after gaining the public’s approval. However, ISTS Care opposed to this arrangement and insisted that human rights should not be decided by votes.
Wu has believed that one’s sex is private, a sex marker is discriminatory, and transgender marker is unacceptable.
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Press Release of ISTS Care
Source: Press Release of ISTS Care
Wu has claimed that it is discriminatory to see the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) be drafted with supplements after gaining the public’s approval.
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Press Release of ISTS Care
Source: Press Release of ISTS Care
Wu also insisted that human rights should not be decided by votes.
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The News Lens
Source: The News Lens
Wu also insisted that human rights should not be decided by votes.
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Press Release of ISTS Care
Source: Press Release of ISTS Care
Awakening Foundation
Awakening Foundation supported self-ID. It suggested that changing the sex on one’s ID card should not require for any proof or evidence. It has said that only if the person asks for help, psychiatry will be the first option.
Awakening Foundation suggested that changing the sex on one’s ID card should not require for any proof or evidence.
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Awakening Foundation’s Official Website
Source: Awakening Foundation’s Official Website
Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association (TTHA)
On TTHA’s official website, transgender is introduced as an umbrella term. Namely, if the people self-identify, dress, and behave in the opposite way of their assigned sex, they are transgender people.
TTHA has introduced transgender as an umbrella term. Namely, if the people self-identify, dress, and behave in the opposite way of their assigned sex, they are transgender people.
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TTHA’s Official Website
Source: TTHA’s Official Website
TTHA also supported gender-identity-based restrooms and lobbied for the Equality Act (including the discrimination against one’s gender identity).
TTHA said that if trans people use sex-based restrooms, they will scare others in the same room.
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TTHA’s Official Website
Source: TTHA’s Official Website
TTHA has suggested Taiwan’s media that in their news reports trans people’s gender self-identification should be respected no matter how controversial the related events are.
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TTHA’s Official Website
Source: TTHA’s Official Website
TTHA also lobbied for the Equality Act (including the discrimination against one’s gender identity).
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TTHA’s Official Website
Source: TTHA’s Official Website
TTHA also lobbied for the Equality Act (including the discrimination against one’s gender identity).
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TTHA’s Official Website
Source: TTHA’s Official Website
Amnesty International (AI)
In 2020, AI started an activity urging people to write to governments for self-ID (mainly to European governments due to the UK’s Gender Recognition Act reform).
Original Text: Have your say on the Gender Recognition Act
