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Last month finally saw some movement on the LGBTQ equality front, as the legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee passed a preliminary review of an amendment that would allow same-sex couples to jointly adopt children. The amendment to the Act for the Judicial Yuan’s Implementation of Constitutional Interpretation No. 748 (司法院釋字第七四八號解釋施行法) still has some way to go before passage and its eventual enactment, with the next phase being cross-p...

The years-long legal effort by Chen and his partner Wang Chen-wei (王振圍) to adopt a daughter together had come to an end. Their case was the first in Taiwan in which both partners in a same-sex marriage were legally allowed to adopt a child to which neither was biologically related.

“Finally, this moment has arrived,” Chen Jun-ju (陳俊儒) sighed in relief, speaking to reporters crowded into the Household Registration Office in Taipei’s Xinyi District (信義) on Jan. 13. “I’m looking forward to seeing my name on my child’s ID. I’m so happy we have made it to this point. It has been a difficult road to get here,” he said. The years-long legal effort by Chen and his partner, Wang Chen-wei (王振圍), to adopt a daughter had come to an end. Their case was t...