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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @12:08AM
There exists a strong current in the alt-right which holds as cis women, mislead by feminist ideology, abandon traditional female gender roles trans women are a better alternative. Everything about femininity that cis women are taught is demeaning or wrong are intensely desirable for trans women, who largely escaped that conditioning. Realizing a traditional family dynamic has become very difficult for cis women, but trans women are eager to fill the void. And men are recognizing that.
Not only is the "trad[itional] trap waifu" currently a popular archetype among the alt-right, it's spreading in popularity as trans women transition earlier (to much better results) and cis women continue to double down on imitating the worst parts of masculinity. In the near future's "house with a white picket fence," the wife will likely have (or have had) a penis.