EDITORIAL: Celebrating gay unions milestone
Monday marked the second anniversary of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Taiwan, and the numbers do show that things are slowly getting better, despite opponents using the occasion to paint the LGBTQ community in a bad light.
Yes, there are still outstanding issues to tackle and a lot of gender equity awareness to promote, but there are some positives.
An Executive Yuan survey showed that 60.4 percent of respondents supported same-sex marriage up from 52.5 last year. Considering that only 37.4 percent supported it in 2018, this is a great leap. The past two years show that legalization would not drastically change society as some feared.
Gay acceptance lower for own children: survey
ON THE RISE: About 52.3 percent of respondents said they would accept that their child was gay, which was up from 49.2 percent in a similar survey from last year
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
Taiwanese are less willing to “accept” that their child is gay than they are to accept learning that a relative or colleague is gay, a survey released yesterday by the Taiwan Equality Campaign found.
The survey, aimed at gauging social attitudes on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ+ rights among people aged 18 and older from across the nation, showed that 52.3 percent of respondents said they could accept learning that their child is gay, up from 49.2 percent in a similar survey last year, the LGBT advocacy group said.
Create LGBT-friendly places for work: group
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
The Taiwan Tongzhi (LGBTQ+) Hotline Association yesterday urged employers to create more gender-friendly workplace environments, saying that transgender people continue to face many problems at work.
Taiwan has legalized same-sex marriage and is a model for gender equality in Asia, the association said.
However, a survey it conducted with the Taiwan Equality Campaign last year showed that 53.1 percent of companies have yet to implement any gender-friendly measures or make an attempt to create a LGBT-friendly workplace, the association said.
One of the main issues faced by transgender people is that they often have trouble finding a job, association secretary-general Tsai Ying-chich (蔡瑩芝) told a news conference in Taipei, citing reports it has received from transgender people.
Same-sex couples go to court to push for equal adoption rights
04/01/2021 07:38 PM
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Taipei, April 1 (CNA) In order to seek a change in existing laws which forbid same-sex couples from adopting children, three gay couples and rights groups pledged to take their cases to court Thursday.
Currently, the same-sex marriage law only allows a homosexual person to adopt the biological child of their partner, said Jennifer Lu (呂欣潔), executive director of the Taiwan Equality Campaign (TEC), at a press conference Thursday.
Married homosexual couples do not have the legal right to adopt non-biologically-related children, unlike heterosexual couples, Lu said.
Three same-sex couples are suing for the right to adopt, with the hopes of reaching the Council of Grand Justices for a constitutional interpretation, a coalition of LGBT rights groups said yesterday.
It has been two years since marriage equality was legalized, but same-sex couples still do not enjoy the same rights as mixed-sex couples when it comes to adoption, the groups told a news conference in Taipei under the slogan “do not make light of children’s rights.”
The law governing same-sex marriage only allows a spouse to adopt the biological child of their partner, preventing the partners from adopting as a