INTERVIEW / Journey home: A transgender woman's dream of rejoining the Lunar New Year dinner
01/28/2025 10:53 AM
For most people in Taiwan, the Lunar New Year holiday is a time for reunion dinners with family, but for Claire Chiu (邱芯妤), the season looks very different. This year, she will spend the break working as a driver, unwelcome at her parents' dinner table, even though she lives under the same roof.
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