Women and Politics Part 3: Diane Marie Rodríguez Zambrano and Audrey Tang Feng

Since we are in the middle of the primary season,

This is the third in a series on interesting women in politics from around the world.

Diane Marie Rodríguez Zambrano, born in 1982, is an Ecuadorian activist and politician who focuses on human rights and LGBT rights. She is the transgender chairwoman of the Silhouette X Association and represents the Observatory LGBTI of Ecuador. In 2009, she set a legal precedent by suing the Civil Registry to change her birth name. In 2017, she was elected as the first trans member of the National Assembly of Ecuador, and the second LGBT member after Sandra Alvarez Monsalve, who was elected as an alternate assembly member in 2009. She completed her mandate in 2021.

  

Audrey Tang Feng, a Taiwanese free software programmer and the inaugural Minister of Digital Affairs, is considered one of the "ten greatest Taiwanese computing personalities." In 2016, she became the first transgender person and non-binary official in Taiwan's top executive cabinet. Tang identifies as "post-gender" and accepts any pronouns. Tang is a community leader of Haskell and Perl and a core member of g0v.