February 28, 2016
we were sitting in front of the television and my father was registering me for Taiwan’s military draft. My mother was surprised and thought it was really clever of him to register online instead of by mail. For some reason my dad filled in my sex as Female on the form so I asked him why. “Why not?” he responded and said that it didn’t really matter. I was really confused as I was sure that this would have consequences during my time in service. Furthermore, our information was going to be displayed on large “flags” before our training.