The structure of the legal situation concerning the sexual minority in Taiwan and China

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590011
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: New fields of law
• Research Institution: Meiji University (2015-2016); Hokkaido University (2014)
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI Ken 明治大学, 法学部, 専任教授 (80226505)
• Research Collaborator: Hsu Hsiu-wen 台湾同性伴侶権益推動聯盟, 理事長 ; Siehchuen Huang 国立台湾大学, 法律学院, 副教授
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 性的マイノリティ / LGBT / 不可視化モデル / 台湾法 / 中国法 / 性的指向 / 同性婚 / 同性パートナーシップ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Conversion to a right protection model started rapidly after 2000 in Taiwan where I belonged to Invisible model in sexual minority legal system type, and determination was judged from approving marriage legally during the same sex by constitution interpretation of the judicialyuan in important regulations government post of May, 2017 via a homogeneous partner family census register notation account system in an autonomous body in 2015. On the other hand an invisible model is still continued in China and a change has not started. A Taiwanese facelift was brought by the following factor.(1) The national mainstream has a strong commitment to the Western modern value (liberalism, human rights and constitutionalism principle) mainly by young people.(2) Support a background of the Taiwan consciousness that the Western modern value is opposed against China.(3) A social movement by LGBT led by female movement.

Free Research Field

基礎法学