Reminder for runners, coaches, judges, volunteers, and working partners participating in the 2023 New Taipei City Wan-Jin-Shi Marathon
When having exchanges and interactions with others during the race, please respect individual differences, diverse gender, body autonomy privacy, and body boundary of others, avoid unwelcoming acts of pursuit, and languages or acts of gender bias or gender discrimination; enforced or violent means are forbidden when handling conflicts related to gender.
We call upon everyone’s assistance to jointly create a national sports festival of gender equality and friendliness!
What is a sexual event (sexual assault, sexual harassment, or sexual bullying)?
(I) What is sexual assault? Any sexual intercourse or indecent conduct violating an individual’s intention constitutes sexual assault.
(II) What is sexual harassment?
Four critical elements constituting sexual harassment:
(1) Expressive or implicit methods
(2) Unwelcoming
(3) Having sexual implications or sexual discrimination
(4) Causing unpleasant feelings in others and affecting their personal dignity and learning or work opportunities or performances.
The common patterns of sexual harassment: Language sexual harassment (dirty jokes), physical sexual harassment (inappropriate touching), unwelcoming pursuit (clinginess/stalker behavior), peeping and sneak shot, or disclosing others’ private videos without any consent.
(III) What is sexual bullying?
(1) Behaviors to belittle, attack, or threaten others in terms of their gender characteristics, gender features, sexual orientation, or gender identity via language, physical acts, or other violent acts.
(2) Common pattern of sexual bullying: Language humiliation (calling others gay, androgynous, or ladyboy), spreading, implicating, or disclosing others’ sexual orientation or sexual privacy without any consent, and mocking others’ gender characteristics.
Special notice
(I) For Those who engage in sexual harassment against others, a fine ranging from NT$10,000 to NT$100,000 may be imposed according to the Sexual Harassment Prevention Act. For those who engage in sexual harassment by leveraging their authority, power, or opportunities, an increment of 50% will be added to their fines.
(II) For groping or touching bottoms or others’ private parts, victims may initiate criminal litigation, and the maximum punishment of imprisonment of less than two years, detention, or a conversion to a fine of less than NT$100,000, or detention in combination with fines may be imposed.
(III) For peeping, sneak shots, and offenses against privacy, imprisonment of less than three years, detention, or a conversion to a fine of less than NT$300,000 may be imposed.