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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, @12:39PM
The third or fourth largest board on the infamous 8chan is /cuteboys/. Food for thought (and maybe other things).
If first-wave feminists had understood their plight as "kinky BDSM roleplay," they might have enjoyed it. Obviously true consent was impossible given the laws and social mores of the time, but today's circumstances are probably robust enough to support this lifestyle. Which isn't so bad in the first place.
Take the common meme that "a woman's place is in the kitchen." For a trans woman, being limited to this "woman's place" might be very gender-affirming. Certainly a breath of fresh air after a lifetime's confinement to often more restrictice male roles. The only problem arises when society tries to enforce this on every woman unilaterally. But, online shitposting aside, that's not likely to happen. We're just seeing pent-up demand for a good hitherto unavailable on the market being satisfied by new entrants. Most white Americans won't deign to pick fruit or scrub toilets, but Latinos use these jobs to vastly improve their living conditions. Likewise modern women vis-a-vis trans women regarding "martini and a blowjob"-style homemaking.