TAPCPR-Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights

The Taiwan Alliance for LGBTQ+ Rights was established in 2009 and officially registered in 2012. We are a gender rights organization committed to promoting legal and policy reforms. Our goal is to challenge the social oppression caused by the binary gender framework and to ensure equal rights for individuals of diverse genders, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

The initial purpose of the Alliance was to advocate for equal marriage rights. We proposed a set of laws encompassing marriage equality, partnership recognition, and family recognition, known as the Three Laws for Diverse Families. In 2017, we achieved a significant milestone when the Constitutional Court issued Interpretation No. 748, leading Taiwan to become the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage in 2019. Four years later, in 2023, Taiwan opened up cross-border same-sex marriage recognition to countries other than China. In addition to marriage equality, the Alliance continues to fight for transgender rights through influential legal cases. In 2021, we achieved victory in the "Xiao E" case, which eliminated the requirement for gender-affirming surgery, and we have won several workplace discrimination cases involving transgender individuals.