Taiwan TG Butterfly Garden , established in 2000, is the first formal transgender

Transgender

Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....

 support group

Support group

In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic...

 in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

. Many members are transsexual; others identify as crossdressers, and others might be described as questioning or transgressive.

The organization served as flag guards at 2005 Taiwan Pride

Taiwan Pride

Taiwan Pride is the annual gay pride parade in Taiwan. The parade was first held in 2003. Although joined by groups from all over the country, the primary location has always been the city of Taipei...

, and demanded amendments for gender equality

Gender equality

Gender equality is the goal of the equality of the genders, stemming from a belief in the injustice of myriad forms of gender inequality.- Concept :...

 in employment law, along with the Awakening Foundation, Gender/Sexuality Rights Association Taiwan

Gender/Sexuality Rights Association Taiwan

Gender/Sexuality Rights Association Taiwan also known by the acronym G/STRAT was established in May 1999 in Taiwan. It aims to promote rights of sexual minorities in the aspects of family, education system, politics, economy and law....

 and Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association

Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association

Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association is an organization providing people with peer counseling, support networks, and a community resource center....

.

The name 'butterfly' was inspired by this mixed gender butterfly.

See also

• LGBT rights in Taiwan
  LGBT rights in Taiwan
  The Republic of China is one of Asia's most progressive countries as far as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender rights are concerned, not only since the government introduced same-sex marriage in 2003 , the first country in Asia to do so...
  
  
• List of LGBT rights organisations

External links

• Josephine Ho
  Josephine Ho
  Josephine Chuen-juei Ho is the chair of the English department ofNational Central University, Taiwan, and coordinator of its.She has withstood lawsuits directed at her outspokenness on gender and rights issues. She holds two doctorates from US universities. She has published many books.-External...
  
  , The Embodiment of Identity. Briefly mentioned establishment of the group.
• Sex.ncu.edu.tw
• Taipei Times

In Chinese:

• 何春蕤，認同的「體」現：打造跨性別（PDF格式）。訪談多位TG蝶園成員，並於30頁提到團體由來。
• 夏德珍，裝錯軀體的靈魂--TG蝶園 跨性別心靈捕手/2004Jul-Dec/transnews_20041026c.htm，2004年10月4日。
• Taiwan TG Butterfly Garden website