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Japan's Supreme Court upholds transgender sterilization requirement
Those who wish to change their gender on official documents must have their original reproductive organs removed, according to the 2004 law.
Japan’s Supreme Court has upheld a law that effectively requires transgender people to be sterilized before they can have their gender changed on official documents.
The court said the law is constitutional because it was meant to reduce confusion in families and society. But it acknowledged that it restricts freedom and could become out of step with changing social values.
[...] [Takakito] Usui, 45, had appealed to the top court after he unsuccessfully requested lower courts to grant him legal recognition as male without having his female reproductive glands surgically removed.
Despite the unanimous decision, presiding justice Mamoru Miura joined another justice in saying that while the law may not violate the constitution, “doubts are undeniably emerging,” according to Usui’s lawyer, Tomoyasu Oyama.
The two judges proposed regular reviews of the law and appropriate measures “from the viewpoint of respect for personality and individuality,” according to Japanese media reports.
[...] Japan does not legally recognize same-sex marriages. As LGBTQ rights awareness has gradually grown in recent years, some municipalities have begun issuing partnership certificates to ease problems in renting apartments and other areas, but they are not legally binding.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 27 2019, @05:32PM
Oh for the love of Madokami...
I am not saying that lack of menstruation makes someone a transwoman, and only someone with a permanent persecution complex like you would even think to derive that from what was said. What I am saying is that the vast majority of us DO menstruate, whereas not one single transwoman, ever, in the history of history, has ever had a period. Similarly, no transwoman ever has or ever will be pregnant or have to worry about being pregnant.
As to "siphoning," maybe I'm just being overly paranoid here, but if someone gave me a choice between "allocate resources to poor neighborhood schools and womens' shelters to buy up a tremendous stock of pads" and "allocate resources to a trans visibility event," there wouldn't even be a contest. Try to imagine being so poor you can't even afford pads. Try to imagine bleeding all over yourself and being able to do nothing about it. You *can't,* because that is not even a remote possibility for your body. Know who it has been a reality for? Among other people, me. In 2010 when my ex went batshit insane and I had to hitch from Wisconsin back to what then remained of my family in NYC.
What happens if you get raped? Okay, it's no better for you than for a cisgender woman, with the big exception that you don't have to risk pregnancy.
Take your "typical right-wing rhetorical technique" and shove it. This kind of selfish, self-absorbed horseshit is what makes TERFs. And while it will never make one out of me just on principle, you are seriously eroding my sympathy for transwomen with this crap. Just because a bunch of assholes treated you badly at the MWMF does NOT give you the right to paint all cisgender women as complicit in your abuse. I reached out an olive branch when we first met here, and you smacked me across the face with it.