By Jerome Yau Significant strides have been made in recent years in terms of equality and inclusion in Hong Kong. Since 2018, our courts have handed down seven rulings that denounced discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and supported the equal treatment of same-sex couples. The most important one is thelandmark judgement handed down by the Court of Final Appeal in the Sham Tsz-kit case last September. While it did not mandate same-sex marriage, it made it clear that the government could implement it if it wished to do so. More importantly, it ordered the government to come up wi…