So, I came out when I was like 24 or 25, so it was already a while ago, and way before I joined the cabinet. This is a well-known fact. And so being, I believe, the world’s first open transgender cabinet member, I think I feel blessed that I do not face any discrimination whatsoever in Taiwan. And that speaks volumes of, in addition to marriage equality, how much progress we have made as a transcultural republic of citizens.

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