Audrey Tang is not your typical bureaucrat. Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs is the island’s youngest minister, as well as its first prominent non-binary public official. Homeschooled by journalist parents, she was a software developer and digital rights activist at the time of the 2014 Sunflower Movement, when young protestors occupied Taiwan’s legislature to oppose a trade deal with China. Tang, who was already involved in civic movements to promote government transparency, ended up
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