Next Generation Leaders: Henry Edward Tse

Henry Edward Tse and other advocates continue to protest the stalled implementation of the ruling allowing trans people change their legal gender.

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00:00 As an activist, I would carry on my work and resist as far as I can to do as much as I

00:16 can to achieve trans equality on the land of Hong Kong.

00:27 I started to get into all these sort of problems because in Hong Kong, the role of the ID card

00:53 is very central.

00:55 The police have the power to ask you to present your ID.

01:00 You need it basically everywhere.

01:04 I'm not recognised as a man, but also I'm not female, so it's literally impossible for

01:11 me to use bathroom in a public place because it would be illegal for me to use either of

01:16 them.

01:17 It would be the crime of loitering, so essentially I'm excluded from all the gender segregated

01:25 spaces.

01:27 The government has a long track record of implementing transphobic policies.

01:37 You have to have multiple surgeries and it's very likely that you develop complications

01:47 and I didn't feel the need to have that.

01:50 It's medically unnecessary for me.

02:05 Especially in the political landscape of Hong Kong, change comes so slowly.

02:11 You win the case and things still don't get implemented.

02:16 I still haven't been able to change my ID card.

02:20 You really have to find a way in order to sustain yourself, to keep pushing and not

02:27 giving up.

02:28 [Music]

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