Taiwanese celebrity Lijing is a famous hostess known as one of the "three queens and one king" in the area of hosts of Taiwan TV world. As one of the queens, Lijing is know for her biting style that stimulates the audience's reactions. Although all of these seems quite normal, what's different about her is that she was actually born as a bisexual child to a fairly rich family in Taiwan. She was initially raised as a boy with an ordinary boy's name since she was the only boy after her sister. It didn't take that long for her to feel uncomfortable living as a boy and she developed tremendous worship for the feminine characteristics she got from observing her mother. Like most bisexual kids, she had a horrible life being unable to live as who she wanted to be in the early years. What's more, although she confessed everything to her parents, it was hard for them to take that, not only because she was the only "boy" in the family to take on responsibilities, but also because she was born in the year of 1962, when it was quite early for people to accept the existence of bisexual kids in China.
After long time of depression, she finally decided to commit a suicide and swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills at the age of 19. Fortunately, she was saved afterwards. She cried and said to her dad that maybe it is better to have a good daughter than losing a son, and that was when her father finally realized how much he loved her and agreed with her surgery to remove the male organs. She was then reborn.
After only a short period she was discovered to host a TV shopping show and got outstanding achievement. She then also started her own TV shows and were loved by the audience. She was still loved by the public even after an accident and her voice cord was hurt, changing her voice not as attractive. She dated boys and really had a normal life as a woman afterwards by keeping fighting. When Lijing was forced to reveal her sex-changing past by the media, her husband came out and strongly supported her in the public. Also, the audience didn't care much about her history and went on loving her and her shows. Although she faced incredible pressure but things went on just fine. It was a shocking fact how much people can actually take at that time and Lijing, as a person who had experienced difficulties with her sexual identity, helped the whole Taiwan sex-nonnormaltive society as a role model.
*Lijing with her husband
Lijing's case is a typical one in the area. Her unremitting fight eventually brought her success and rights to live happily as herself. Yet, there are still a lot of things for us to think about. What if she didn't have the money to do the surgery? What if her dad didn't accept her as who she was? What if she didn't become a beloved celebrity? Would people still accept her just as they did when she was famous? What's the public's tolerance on the case when it was a normal person around them? How is Lijing's case going to be like in the U.S. society?
What I think is that, maybe things are not that complicated. If we don't put pressure on sexual non-normal people and don't put over policing on them, they would't form any threat to everyone else as they are normal people and they have no reason to do so. Also, in that case there is no need to feel fear about them. To make a change, someone has to start up first with confidence and trusts in each other. Why do they have to be the ones who tries first? Maybe it is time for us to make a big change.
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