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Su Shan is a 35-year-old software engineer in Taipei. She raises a 5-month-old twin together with her same-sex partner. Su explains that whatever happens to the child the other partner will not be recognized just like a stranger in terms of medical or educational decisions.
The lawmakers of Taiwan is currently working on it to support the marriage equality, even the President Tsai Ing-wen, a first female Taiwan's head state also has the prominent support of the said bill. According to AP, Tseng Yen-Jung, a spokeswoman of Taiwan LGBT Family Rights Advocacy said that almost 80 percent of Taiwanese at the ages of 20-29 supports same-sex marriage by citing some local university studies. Four years ago a survey was taken that 55% of the people supported same-sex marriage and 37% of it opposed as what Taiwan United Daily News is found.
Taiwan's 23 million people follow Buddhism and traditional Chinese religions don't take any strong positions about sexual orientation or same-sex marriage. On the year 1990's the Gay and Lesbian relationship finds wide acceptance and already established feminist movement, Jen Damm said. Same-sex marriage still has to defeat the traditional perceptions of gender roles and pressures the children to marry and have kids.
For over past 15 years, as what Washington DC stated, Taiwan will be joining Canada, Colombia, Ireland, the United States and other 16 countries that same-sex marriage is legalized. But there would be an exception among Asian, Middle Eastern countries and other 20 that continues to ban even same-sex intercourse. Yu Mei-nu said that this will be a big step to the history of human rights and now it's in the line of a parliamentary debate and if Taiwan can pass this, it will give another Asian country a model.
The legalization of this same-sex marriage issue grows closer and hardened among the minority of fundamentalist churches and conservative politicians. The Nationalist Party's Central Standing Committee stopped earlier efforts to pass the bill.
The same-sex marriage bill, introduced in the year 2013 has been opposed by a Christian group that gathered signatures about 400,000 naysayers, Our Perth reported. It would be a burden to Taiwan's welfare system and tough to the children if the same-sex marriage will be legalized, Chen Chih-hung said.
The children of same-sex couples couldn't cope up and find it difficult to socialize with other children from mainstream families, Chen said, though the argument is still ongoing by the social scientist. Su said that she and her partner find comments from other people they meet concerning, and that their twins feel intrigued that they have two mamas.
