EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to Taiwan’s strict libel laws, trans-identified individuals who change their legal sex marker can sue for harassment and slander. As a result, the language in this article has been carefully chosen in order to protect the safety of the author of this important piece.
On October 19, a prominent transgender politician took to social media to harass and threaten women critical of gender ideology, and to target organizations advocating for the protection of women’s single-sex spaces.
Abbygail ET Wu 吳伊婷, also known as Wu Yiting, threatened multiple female activists via social media for opposing gender ideology. Using both Facebook and Instagram threads, Wu, who is a representative of Taiwan’s Green Party, threatened to release information, including the identification number, phone number, and address of a private citizen associated with the organization No Self ID Taiwan (NSIDT).
Wu demanded the removal of content deemed “offensive” from the NSIDT website within 24 hours, while issuing threats of exposing private information.
NSIDT was formed in 2021 to help track the progress of self-identification laws in the country, and to provide Taiwanese people with unbiased information from around the world on how gender ideology affects women and girls.
The organization has raised concerns over gender self-identification policies in the country, and have been documenting the emerging cases of males changing their legal sex markers in order to gain access to women’s spaces.
Using publicly-available information from both the mainstream media or court cases, NSIDT found that Taiwan has permitted 7 known cases of sex self-identification. But after the page documenting these cases came to Wu’s attention, the trans activist began to issue chilling threats to release the personal information of members associated with the group unless they deleted the page.
In a post to Facebook, Wu gave NSIDT 24 hours to remove the content, and leaked semi-redacted information demonstrating Wu had the personal identification number, address, and phone number of a female activist associated with NSIDT.
Wu’s post reads:
“According to internal reports, an important individual who is anti-transgender is one of the following:
A222XXXXXX [ID number]
09301XXXXXX [Phone number]
林森XXXXXXXX之XXXX [Address partially redacted]
Let them experience the fear of having their personal information exposed.
If you don’t delete the information within the specified time, let’s see who this fire burns next. If you’re brave enough to sue, I’ll expose information of about at least 6 people for every 1 person you file against. Do you understand now?
At first, I was making big companies call me to apologize, requesting me not to expose their internal details. Did you think I wouldn’t directly expose the related parties’ personal information?”
In the comment section of both the Facebook and Instagram Threads posts, Wu claimed to have been contacted by a middleman to “negotiate” a way to diffuse the situation, but stated that the negotiations would not be posted publicly.
NSIDT confirmed that no one from their organization has contacted or has been in contact with Wu with regard to the post.
Wu, a trans-identified individual who has legally changed their sex marker to female, is a self- described insurance consultant and information security engineer by profession.
During the 2024 Taiwanese legislative elections, Wu made international news as the first openly transgender person to run for a Legislative Yuan seat on the left-wing Green Party Taiwan’s party list ticket.
Despite a crushing election defeat, Wu vowed to continue fighting to pass self-ID laws by working to “eliminate the burden of undergoing sex-change surgery placed on those wanting to legally change their gender.”
Wu has also spoken out against requiring “gender reassignment surgery” for identification changes, saying: “I think surgery is a myth… They will find out, why do you still look like a boy after surgery? In fact, what makes you look like a girl is your gender expression and temperament… the surgery is really meaningless.”
Wu has a history of relying on the tactic of “doxxing” and exposing personal information online to intimidate opponents of gender ideology.
In April of 2024, Wu posted a video on YouTube with photos of LGB Alliance Taiwan representative Nick Yao, titled: Revealed – The leader of Taiwan anti-trans movement. Yao, a former Trees Party member, has been a vocal activist for years within the gay community and has even been a public supporter of trans rights, but does not support self-identification policy being enshrined in law and believes women and girls require single-sex spaces.
Green Party Taiwan was contacted for comment on Wu’s behavior and the potential consequences it has for civilian safety, but did not respond in time for publication.