Taiwan Normal University women s football coach forced his team members to draw blood and exchange credits and was dismissed

#Taiwan Normal University women's football coach forced the team members to draw blood and exchange credits##Taiwan Women's football coach forced the team members to draw blood and exchange credits#[Taiwan media: Taiwan Normal University women's football coach was exposed to force the team members to "take blood and exchange credits", the person involved was dismissed, and the school spoke out] According to the United Daily News, Dongsen News Cloud and other Taiwanese media reported on July 14 that the Taiwan Normal University women's football coach Zhou Taiying was once reported to require players to cooperate with a research plan to conduct blood draw experiments for several years during the winter and summer vacations. The students were forced to draw blood from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. for 14 consecutive days. If they do not cooperate, they will be threatened to detain graduation credits. On the 13th, Taiwan Normal University issued a latest statement in response, saying that the investigation has been completed, the coaching position has been removed from its position, and no longer leading the sports team, and blood draw does not comply with the provisions of the "Human Body Research Law" and other regulations, and relevant research materials have been required to be destroyed.

According to Dongsen News Cloud, in November 2024, Chen Peiyu, a representative of the DPP’s public opinion, exposed at a press conference that in the “Precision Operation Program” of the Taiwan “Science and Technology Committee”, a female football player from Taiwan Normal University was asked by the coach to become the experimental subjects of a plan involuntarily. Players are required to cooperate with blood draw for 14 consecutive days, three times a day, and need to get up from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. to participate. If any player is unwilling to cooperate, graduation credits will be deducted and threatened by withdrawal from school. During the execution of the player's blood draw, there are also people who are not qualified to collect blood, and some players' "research subsidy subject funds" were even collected by the coach in the name of team fees.

United Daily News said that Taiwan Normal University issued a statement on social platform Facebook on July 13, saying that in response to students' reports that the school has completed relevant investigations and explained many matters that are concerned by outsiders regarding students' reports that the women's football team teachers are suspected of violating the "Human Body Research Law". Taiwan Normal University said that some blood draws were not performed by professional nurses, and the complete written description and approval were not provided before the blood draw process, which did not comply with the "Human Research Law" and relevant regulations, and the implementation of the plan has been terminated. The school stated that the collected research data collected with the female football team members of the school as the research subjects shall not be included in the research analysis and publication, and the plan host is requested to complete the destruction processing procedure. The

statement also stated that the test fees for the first year of the program (2024) were not immediately allocated, and it was later distributed to the test students' personal account in January 2025, and after investigation, there was no reimbursement of the team fees. However, the cost of the subjects in other early studies was not thoughtful and was asked to pay back part of the expenses without explicitly obtaining the consent of the subjects. Although the cost was used for team training and management, the handling procedures were not appropriate.

Dongsen News Cloud said that the school said that coach Zhou Taiying had asked his colleagues to bring his own signed apology letter to read the apology to all the students of the football team. The school also removed his administrative and coaching positions in early December 2024, and will no longer lead the sports team in the future. The school's relevant teachers will continue to contact students, hoping to meet with the students and express their apology on behalf of the school again.