Dear Editor,
For the September edition of Sinorama, your magazine interviewed me on issues related to the protection of human rights for people of diverse sexual orientations (including homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender people). Perhaps for reasons of space, many controversial points were not covered in detail, so I am now writing to give a little further explanation and to again call on people of vision to press the relevant authorities to quickly draft laws to concretely protect the basic human rights of transgender people.
To provide guidance for future legislation, I have begun collating a compendium of local and foreign academic writings, legislation and court rulings relevant to transgender rights. With regard to the protection of homosexuals' rights, I recently published a monograph entitled On Equal Protection for Lesbians and Gay Men, which I hope interested readers will read for themselves.
In October I was invited to Hong Kong, and learned much while I was there. In fact, Hong Kong lags some way behind Taiwan in protecting the rights of people of diverse sexual orientations, but it shows much stronger and more active determination to uphold the basic equality of citizens before the law. Some in Taiwan question the role and status of "the law" in the gay rights movement, yet people are constantly seeking answers to legal questions on the Internet. Perhaps this reflects a lack of basic legal knowledge among ROC citizens?! In the future there will still be plenty for us to think about and work towards.
Readers interested in discussing these issues are welcome to e-mail me at narzissmus@yahoo.com.