Ⅳ. Discourse
          Like most of its Western counterparts, Taiwan’s long and arduous road to marriage equality beginsat fundamental respect for human rights.(36)_____ However, the bill faced massive opposition frommembers of both the Cabinet (or the Executive Yuan Council, formed by the ruling DemocraticProgressive Party) and the Legislative Yuan (controlled by the Kuomintang-led, pan-Blue coalition).
         While efforts from the grassroots to the top levels have been made through the years, it was in2016 when proponents saw victory inching closer. The general election resulted in a parliamentarymajority for the Democratic Progressive Party — with most members now in favor of same-sexmarriage.
          (37)_____ In June, a legislator and several civic groups urged the government to work harder towardachieving such equality in schools, at an event marking the 15th anniversary of a law that raises genderawareness among students and protects the rights of young people regardless of their gender identity orsexual orientation.
         (38)_____ Yeh Yung-Chih, whose body was found in a pool of blood, was bullied at school for being“effeminate.” Yeh’s death prompted Taiwan’s Ministry of Education to modify its Gender EqualityEducation Committee— literally “the committee of equality education of two sexes” — into the broaderGender Equity Education Committee to promote gender education beyond the two sexes.(39)_____ It states that the “school shall provide a gender-fair learning environment, respect and give dueconsideration to students, faculty, and staff with a different gender, gender temperament, gender identity,and sexual orientation.”
          In 2006, the Kaohsiung branch of Taiwan’s High Court sentenced the school’s principal and twoother officials to five months, four months and three months, respectively, in prison for “neglecting thedegree of care required by their occupation.” (40)_____ 
          Since then, tributes to the fallen teenager have referred to him as the “Rose Boy,” in therepresentation of boys with feminine expressions. The results of the 2004 law have also been visible inthe island’s education system, particularly with the establishment of unisex bathrooms that “fosterrespect and equality between the sexes.”
【題組】36.
(A) By legalizing same-sex marriage, Taiwan may have become the most progressive place in Asia, butits struggle for gender equality persists.
(B) Then came the Gender Equity Education Act.
(C) In the same year, the Taiwan Gender Equity Education Association published a book in memory ofYeh, titled “Embracing the Rose Boy.”
(D) As early as 2003, its Executive Yuan proposed legislation granting marriages to same-sex couplesunder the Human Rights Basic Law.
(E) That law is the Gender Equity Education Act, passed in 2004 in response to the controversial deathof a junior high school student three years earlier.