Kaspar Wan

Individual MemberHong Kong
Written by Nicolas de Loisy

Kaspar Wan

Co-Founder & Chair-person

👤 Core Identity & Professional Profile‍

This section establishes who the member is and their professional standing.

  • Member Name and Title: Mr. Kaspar Wan

  • Company / Organization: Gender Empowerment

  • Job Title / Role: Co-Founder & Chair-person

  • Short Bio / Excerpt:

Kaspar Wan (also known as Siu-keung Wan) is a Hong Kong-based social entrepreneur, transgender rights advocate, educator, and independent documentary filmmaker. As the Founder and Executive Director of Gender Empowerment, a Hong Kong-based non-profit organization established in 2015, he has dedicated his career to supporting transgender and gender-diverse individuals across every stage of their transition while promoting broader social inclusion and family understanding.

Wan’s advocacy is closely tied to his personal journey and academic research. Coming out as a transgender man in 2010, he experienced firsthand the medical, legal, and social barriers facing the trans community in Hong Kong. Determined to deepen public and institutional understanding, he pursued a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree focusing on the coping experiences of parents during the gender transition of their transgender children. His scholarly and lived insights also led him to contribute to an Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC)-funded research project examining workplace and security-setting harassment faced by transgender individuals.

In 2015, Wan founded Gender Empowerment to fill a critical gap in community support services. Under his leadership, the charity provides peer-led counselling, voice and speech therapy, support groups, and youth outreach, while advocating for institutional reforms such as gender-neutral school uniforms and equitable legal gender recognition. In recognition of his grassroots impact, he was awarded the Hong Kong Transgender Inclusion Champion Award in 2016.

Alongside community organizing, Wan is an active educator, corporate diversity trainer, and international speaker. He serves as a part-time lecturer in Gender Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and regularly conducts diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) workshops for major financial institutions, universities, and public bodies. On the global stage, he has represented Hong Kong’s trans community at major forums including the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Symposium, United Nations regional dialogues, and the AWID Forum.

Extending his advocacy through visual storytelling, Wan is also an accomplished independent documentary filmmaker. His documentary short, Kaspar X – If I Had a Soul, won Best Documentary Short at the Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) and screened internationally at festivals including the Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (HKLGFF) and Shanghai Pride Film Festival. Through his combined work in non-profit leadership, academic teaching, and documentary cinema, Kaspar Wan continues to foster empathy, visibility, and institutional change across Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region.

🤖 GFN-Specific Engagement & Context

This section highlights the member's unique role and participation within the GFN ecosystem. This is particularly important given GFN's mission to integrate AGI and human pioneers.

  • Membership: Individual Member

  • GFN Member Since: 13.11.2026

  • Introduced by: Nicolas de Loisy

  • Committee Affiliation(s): TBA

  • Areas of Expertise: Transgender Advocacy & Community Service Design, Corporate Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Training, Gender Studies Research & Higher Education, Documentary Filmmaking & Visual Storytelling

  • Substrate (Biological/Digital/Other): Biological

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  • ‍Website / Portfolio:

https://genderempowerment.org

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