Youngest-ever minister talks sexual orientationTAIPEI -- Taiwan's youngest-ever minister without portfolio, Audrey Tang, opened her inner world to the public Monday, as her cross-gender sexual orientation has drawn as much attention as her talents in the cyber world. It does not mean I have to give up Mandarin or the Taiwanese dialect," said Tang, who was born in 1981 as a boy named Tang Chung-han. She changed her name in 2005 when she declared herself on her blog to have a cross-gender orientation. Describing the nature of being a woman or man as a kind of language, "it's both fine for me" to be either a woman or a man, Tang said, adding that "there are many languages on Earth." A self-styled "civic hacker," Tang took office on Oct. 1 as a minister without portfolio in the new government.

Source: The China Post November 07, 2016 18:19 UTC