Audrey Tang

Audrey Tang
Tang Feng
唐鳳
Official portrait, 2016
1st Minister of Digital Affairs
In office
27 August 2022 – 20 May 2024
Prime MinisterSu Tseng-chang
Chen Chien-jen
Deputy
See list
  • Huai-Jen Lee
    Chuei He-ming
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byHuang Yen-nun
Minister without Portfolio
In office
1 October 2016 – 27 August 2022
Prime Minister
Personal details
Born
Tang Tsung-han (唐宗漢)

18 April 1981 (1981-04-18) (age 43)
Taipei, Taiwan
Political partyIndependent
Parents
  • Tang Kuang-hua (father)
  • Lee Ya-ching (mother)
Relatives
  • Bestian Tang (唐宗浩) (brother)
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionSoftware programmer
Signature
Audrey Tang
Traditional Chinese唐鳳
Simplified Chinese唐凤
Original name
Traditional Chinese唐宗漢
Simplified Chinese唐宗汉

Audrey Tang (Chinese: 唐鳳; pinyin: Táng Fèng; born 18 April 1981) is a Taiwanese politician and free software programmer who has served as the 1st Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan from August 2022 to May 2024.[1] She has been described as one of the "ten greatest Taiwanese computing personalities".[2] In August 2016, Tang was invited to join Taiwan's Executive Yuan as a minister without portfolio, making her the first transgender person and the first non-binary official in the top executive cabinet.[3][4][5] Tang has identified as "post-gender" and accepts "whatever pronoun people want to describe me with online."[6] Tang is a community leader of Haskell and Perl and the core member of g0v.

  1. ^ "EY.GOV.TW—Executive Yuan Officials: TANG Feng (Audrey TANG), Minister without Portfolio". December 2011. Archived from the original on 2020-10-28. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  2. ^ Chen, Chun-ming (2006-02-08). "別叫我「先生」! 電腦怪傑唐宗漢變性 改名唐鳳 (Don't call me "Mister"! Tang Zonghan changes sex, name now Tang Feng)" (in Chinese). Eastern Television. Archived from the original on 2006-10-19. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
  3. ^ "PROFILE: Audrey Tang: 100% made in Taiwan – Taipei Times". www.taipeitimes.com. 2016-08-28. Archived from the original on 2016-08-28. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  4. ^ Glauert, Rik (2018-11-29). "What you didn't know about the world's first non-binary minister". Gay Star News. Archived from the original on 2020-07-28. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  5. ^ "Interview with Mia Hunt". Archived from the original on 2020-07-28.
  6. ^ "Audrey Tang is radically transparent". Dumbo Feather. Archived from the original on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2020-07-29.

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