Joanne Leung
Joanne Leung Wing-yan is the first openly transgender politician in Hong Kong. Assigned male at birth, she underwent sex-reassignment surgery in 2009 to become legally recognized as a woman. She was the chairperson of Pink Alliance until 2017 and is the founder and chairperson of Transgender Resource Center (TGR), two active non-governmental organizations that aim to service the LGBT community and promote LGBT equality. Leung is a transgender lesbian. Biography Leung has stated that she first knew she should physically be a girl at the age of six. As a child, she didn't know how to deal with bullies and kept her feelings to herself. Hiding her transgender identity led to four attempted suicides. In 2004, she consulted a sex clinic to find about sex reassignment surgery. In 2009, she finally underwent the operation. After surgery, she started to think about supporting the transgender community. Leung's stated goal is for Hong Kong society to learn more about transsexual and transgender individuals. Leung has been fighting hard for LGBT rights in Hong Kong. She wants to ensure that other transgender people do not have to go through what she endured, especially since there is only little information on being transgender available