Siufung Law

Genderfluid advocate, sports activist, TEDx speaker, scholar, poet, and professional bodybuilder

Be fearless, be motivated, and be your true self.

About Siufung

Siufung Law (they/them) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. Their dissertation project, "Sporting Thirdness: An Ethnography of the Nonbinary Gender Divisions in Bodybuilding in Taiwan," examines the emergence of nonbinary gender divisions in bodybuilding in Taiwan to conceptualize “thirdness” through geopolitics, categorical politics, and body politics, drawing on multi-sited ethnographic research and long-standing engagement with trans and queer sports communities in Asia. Their broader research spans transgender studies, queer theory, Asian and Sinophone studies, sports cultural studies, and feminist ethnography.

Siufung has shared their dissertation research transnationally through invited lectures and workshops at Portland State University, the University of British Columbia, the University of California, Santa Barbara, Riverside, and Los Angeles, University of Rochester, Berea College, the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lingnan University of Hong Kong, and Far Eastern University in the Philippines, among others. Their work has also been featured in a conference keynote address at Hong Kong Baptist University. In addition, their research has been widely presented at conferences and symposia such as the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS), Crossroads in Cultural Studies, and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. Their publications appear across multiple journals and edited volumes of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Sport, Education and Society, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Feminist Encounters, Science for the People, and The Lancet Planetary Health. One of their recent publication is a collaboration with Bonnie Pang and Denise Tang, "Trans*, female bodybuilding and racial equality: narratives from a Hong Kong Chinese gender-fluid bodybuilder."

Siufung is equally committed to teaching and public pedagogy. In 2026, they are the Dean’s Teaching Fellow at Emory University, where they have designed and taught a first-of-its-kind course, “Trans in Asia: Rethinking Gender Across Borders,” which centers trans and queer politics in Asian contexts. Across Emory and their previous teaching in Hong Kong, Siufung has taught widely in transgender and queer studies, feminist theory, visual and cultural studies, and Hong Kong studies. Beyond the university classroom, they also practice a public intellectual approach to teaching through community talks, reading groups, and workshops on gender, sports, and LGBTQ activism in venues ranging from grassroots organizations and humanities libraries to film festivals and human rights forums in America, Europe, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. They currently serve as a Co-PI for a transgender research collective funded by the TEN:TACLES Initiatives to develop a public transgender studies syllabus for readers in Asia.

Beyond academia, Siufung is deeply involved in transnational trans sports and LGBTQ activism. As a TEDx speaker, Siufung speaks about how everyday acts of kindness in gendered spaces can motivate transgender advocacy and community-building. They have been serving on the board of the International Association of Trans Bodybuilders and Powerlifters since 2022, where they help organize one of the world’s only trans-inclusive annual bodybuilding and powerlifting competitions and convene public conversations with athletes, researchers, and activists on transness and sport. They were a Transgriot sports writer who covers transgender sports news and debates, and they serve as an ambassador for Athlete Ally, working to combat transphobia in sport and to respond to emerging sports-related issues across Asia. They also played a key organizing and outreach role with Gay Games Hong Kong as an ambassador and torchbearer, helping to build connections between Hong Kong- and U.S.-based communities around trans-inclusive sport. Their contributions to sport and trans communities have been recognized through multiple honors, including being named a Pioneer Women Leader by the 7th World Women Leadership Congress & Awards and serving as a finalist for both the LGBT+ Public Champion and Transgender Inclusion Awards. Their transnational transgender activism is further featured in documentaries "Forever Queer" and "They Are Siufung," which have premiered at film festivals in Atlanta, New York, Seattle in the USA, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Paris, Germany, and Taiwan.

With a strong commitment to pedagogy and the transformative potential of research, Siufung welcomes opportunities for speaking engagements, collaborative projects, consulting, and future academic positions. Their expertise in trans and queer studies, sports and body politics, and Asian and Sinophone gender formations continues to inform their work as an activist-scholar, athlete, and public intellectual committed to building more just and livable worlds for trans and nonbinary communities.