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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) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday January 26 2019, @11:26PM (3 children)
Additionally, hormone treatment also results in sterilization. If XX male [wikipedia.org], then the person in question is already sterile.
Has Japan gone as far as offering 50% off discount Ayatollahcare sex changes? [wikipedia.org]
One may also observe that Japan and Iran are still more progressive than Texas.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 26 2019, @11:41PM (2 children)
Hormone replacement therapy does not necessarily result in sterility. Women have gotten their partners pregnant while on HRT. Also, if you stop HRT completely then sperm production resumes in under a year.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @02:02AM (1 child)
Not possible. Female gametes are ova, male gametes are sperm. Women by definition cannot impregnate other women. Perhaps you meant that men impregnated their partners while on HRT?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @04:29AM
Some women have penises.