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.
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