In 1984 the story of "Jane," the first trans-sexual whose identity was exposed in Taiwan, made people sit up and take notice of transsexuals, and the Department of Health approved the first sex change operations in Taiwan in 1988.
民國七十三年，台灣首位曝光變性人「珍」的故事，讓人們開始注意到變性人的存在。而台灣經衛生署核可的變性手術始於民國七十七年。