By Shen Pei-yao, Kuo An-chia and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writerUnions and gender equality groups yesterday rallied in front of Taipei City Hall to protest the appointment of Chen Hsin-yu (陳信瑜) as director of the Taipei Department of Labor, citing concern about Chen’s purported stance against homosexuality. Chen, a former Kaohsiung City councilor for the Democratic Progressive Party, is scheduled to take office today. Appointing this kind of person to a position related to gender equality affairs is troubling, Lu said. In 2014, Ko said that city residents should choose their department of labor director, and Lai Hsiang-ling (賴香伶) was appointed to the position after 19,956 residents voted. Chen’s anti-homosexual stance could affect the municipality’s ability to uphold the law, Fight for Gender Equality secretary-general Chou Yu-hsuan (周于萱) said.
