‘Baby = Monopoly of Heterosexual Couples?’

The paper first illustrates the contradictory results generated by two surveys — conducted respectively by the colonial Government in 1996 and the author/principal investigator in 1998. The author then argues that the requirement that applicants must be married couples is not well-supported and should be replaced by the criterion of ‘functional parenthood’. The author also argues in the paper that such a relaxation would also destablize the mythological dichotomy of ‘homo vs. Chinese’, which is predicated on (1) the misunderstanding that Tongzhi/Queer could not have any child(ren) and (2) the Han-Chinese traditional emphasis on reproduction.