The Sun Daily reports: in what was hailed as a "benchmark" ruling, Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday decided that the marriage status of Abbygail Wu, 27, and her 29-year-old partner Jiyi Wu remained legal.
Abbygail graciously gave planetransgender a interview while the couples fate was still unknown. It was her suggestion that the article be titled Can The Taiwanese Gov't Revoke A Marriage With A Letter? It was a wonderful experience for me to learn first hand from these two young people what love means to them and a joy to be in some small way a contributor to what the WSJ described as a important component to this victory.
Abbygail and Jiyi Wu's struggle to love has transcended national boundaries lending their humanity to the realization that trans people worldwide belong together in one community.
While some see this as a leap forward for marriage equality not everyone is so optimistic according to the WSJ
Taiwan’s LGBT rights groups caution that the case does not signal that conservative Taiwan is ready to rewrite its marriage law yet.
“Protection of marriage and the right to marry is part of basic human rights, which means the decision was delayed justice but nothing groundbreaking,” said Chien Chih-chieh, the secretary-general of Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights.
The case, in fact, shows the government is still unwilling to budge from the current regulation that states a marriage can take place only between a man and a woman, she said.
The only silver lining, she said, is that the public and the government seem more willing to discuss the issue, which gives the group hope that a bill on recognizing same-sex marriages they plan to pitch to the legislature in September may meet less resistance.
人一出生，就被賦予性別是男生或女生，但是有一群人，他們無法認同自己的生理性別，長期不安、痛苦，甚至去做變性手術，這個族群叫作「跨性別者」！接下來，我們要帶您來看台灣，一對非常特別的「跨性別」伴侶、Abby和小芷的故事！Abby和小芷，兩個人原本生理上是男生，成年以後，他們都進行了變性手術，就在Abby變更身分證為女性之後，他們到戶政機關完成結婚登記。當時，身分證件註明，兩個人是一男一女，在法律上沒有問題。但後來、戶政機關發現，原本登記為男性的小芷，身分證也由男變女！這下子問題來了，兩個變性人、身分證都成了女性、他們的婚姻還算合法嗎？一場全球罕見的跨性別者「婚姻保衛戰」，在台灣正式開打！
Men are born, were given gender was male or female, but a group of people, they were unable to identify with their physiological sex, long unease, pain, even for the sex change operation, the group called the "transgender"! Next, we'll take you to see – Taiwan, a very special "cross-gender" companion, Abby He Xiaozhi story! Abby He Xiaozhi, two people was physically to be boys, as adults, they have carried out that operation, after Abby change of identity cards for women, they went to the population administration organ complete marriage registration. At that time, the identity documents indicated, two persons were a man and a woman, no on legal issues. But then, the population administration organs found was originally registered as a male small Zhi, identity card by the MTF! Grabbed the issue came, two transgender people, identity card were all women, their marriage is legal? Rare transgender a global "battle for marriage", in Taiwan officially started!
