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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 29 2019, @01:44AM
If it works for them, then more power to them, but the instant things go sour, we're going to see a wave of dead transwomen that makes the already-horrific carnage they face look like a vacation in Maui. These men are not stable or sane and transwomen are some of the most vulnerable people in the nation; what will happen the day one of these alt-righters suddenly has, for example, a hardcore religious experience and becomes violently homo- and trans-phobic? His transwoman wife is deader than disco, and will be LUCKY if all that happens to her is getting her head blown off with a shotgun, and sure as hell the local "justice" system will care nothing for her. She'll be as disposable as she would have been on the street, and believe me, in the course of the anti-trafficking work I've done, I've seen exactly how disposable people in that position are...