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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.

Things I've noticed happen in the general vicinity of my posts:

- Fundie nutjobs reduced to curling up in a little ball, plugging their ears, and spewing either contentless religious copypasta (Freeman) or barely-coherent amateur apologia (Bot).
- The Shitey Uzzard degenerating into mudslinging and pretending (badly) not to care when defeated in arguments...every single one of them.
- Insecure manchildren accusing me of being a transsexual (some random AC) on one hand, and on the other, an actual transwoman accusing me of being a TERF (Kurenai).
- Creeps like VLM, KHallow, JMorris, Entropy, and all their kind simply giving the hell up and abandoning ship when faced with a proper down-smacking for their fallacious sociopathy.

When you have people on the fringes everywhere angry with you, each of them accusing you of the precise opposite on the spectrum they hate, you must be doing something right. In all my time here, I've never gone in for trolling, deception, or shitposting. I've always stood for what's right, and took the fight to those who would try to spread their noetic poisons, fighting it everywhere it appears for the sake of anyone unfortunate enough to encounter it, knowing full well the originators of such poison are by their own choice irredeemable, certainly so in this lifetime.

And my approach drives them nuttier than squirrel vomit.

Well boo fucking hoo. When someone on here tells me I'm bitchy or angry, I just laugh, because what they really mean is "you're making me uncomfortable by exposing my bullshit in such direct, uncompromising, profanity-laced ways." It's pretty obvious the accusations of being a transsexual come from sheltered, misogynist little manchildren who can't handle actual women speaking the plain, unvarnished truth to them, because they have so little truck with the opposite sex they've never seen it in the real world before. No, this insult to their manly honor cannot stand! ONLY another man could POSSIBLY have the balls, literal balls, to stand up to them! (And of course the kind of person who'd make this argument lumps MtFs under the heading of "man." I don't, though I do draw an important distinction between transwomen and cisgender women because, frankly, they are never going to know what it is to have a period or risk being pregnant).

Time to put on your big-boy undies and join the adult world! The toughest people I know are all women, including my own mother and some of the nurses at work. I'm a marshmallow compared to them.

And I don't regret anything, as painful as it's been sometimes. Am I a "nice girl?" No, and haven't been for several years, and you know what? It's better this way. "Nice girls" get used and taken advantage of and thrown away and never have their needs met. "Nice girls" are the permanent victims of tone trolling by people too frightened or too weak to deal with them as the full human beings they are. In this place, at this time, as this site sinks further and further into RWNJ decay, all it means is I'll fight all the harder.

What I hope this does is encourage the people on here who still seek the light to defend it. Hit back. We're seeing on a number of scales, from the President's capitulation on his stupid bullshit shutdown right down to the examples at the head of this post, that the sociopaths are like any bully: weak, cowardly, amoral types who don't expect and can't handle sustained, principled pushback. Part of it is that evil simply can't comprehend good, but mostly it comes down to how bullies work and have always worked. Anyone who wants to join me in fighting the good fight, please do: we've seen that it works.

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Oh how easily we slip into tyranny! You are aware, are you not, that we Greeks had two different words for "king", depending on how they "got to be king, because I didn't vote for you." The two words are, Basileus (Greek: βασιλεύς), and Tyrant (Greek τύραννος, tyrannos). Basileus is a legitimate king, whether by birth or by election. Tyrants, um, come to power by other means.

So here we have it. Yet another aristarchus submission has met it's appointed fate, and highly unusual, the eds, (OK, Takyon) provided a justification, beyond the fact that it was, after all, an aristarchus submission.

We're sorry, your submission "MAGA hats are offensive and there’s nothing we can do about it" was declined for the following reason:
There’s nothing we can do about it -takyon

The editors felt it inappropriate for them to correct the issue themselves. Please feel free to correct the issue yourself and resubmit.

Yeah, right, resubmit. One thing about being the target of a programme of censorship, you learn to recognize sarcastic encouragement. Not bloody likely, as janrinock of olde would say. There was nothing they could do? How about doing your job, editors, like, editing something. Throwing back to me what I thought was a perfectly cromulent submission, and expecting me to divine from the fact that there was nothing you could do, that there is something that I could do? Boggles the mind, it does.

Point is, if you wear a MAGA hat, you hate American, you hate Native Americans, which includes the TMB, as lovely and native as he is, and you hate immigrants, which all but the Native Americans are, and you are probably a Catholic Prep School Douche, like Brett Kavanaugh. There. I said it. Catholic preps school boys are fun! And recruits for Opus Dei and the Alt-right. And Takyon seems to be in cahoots (just because I like to use the word "cahoots") with them. #freearistarchus!!!!

The citizens of Venezuela have suffered for too long at the hands of the illegitimate Maduro regime. He's not your President. He's a big phoney. He says he "won" the Election. He didn't win it. He only won because it was Rigged. And the United States will not stand a Rigged Election. Unless our guy wins. We stand with the Venezuelan people. That's 100%. And ALL OPTIONS are on the table. The nuclear and the everything else.

A big hand to @JGuaido of Venezuela, the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, who I have officially recognized as the Interim President of Venezuela. twitter.com/VP/status/1088137453268013057

Thank you Mike. Vayan Con Dios! twitter.com/VP/status/1087734655804194819

Boyfriend and girlfriend are out. ‘Partners’ are in. Here’s why more millennials are changing how they define their relationships.

Had another incredible day today. Would have been PERFECT if it wasn't so cold -- we'd love some of that good old Global Warming!

I proclaimed it Martin Luther King Day. Made it a Holiday for our fantastic Federal Workers. My way of thanking them for all they're doing for our Country. And VP Pence joined me for a little visit to the statue of Martin. Who was a big believer in our monuments, our statues. Big fan of Stone Mountain in Georgia, where they honor, so beautifully, the heroes of our Confederacy -- and their noble horses. President Jefferson Davis with his Generals Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson. Who they were calling Stonewall before they carved him into the mountain there. They're thinking of carving Martin into that same mountain. Hopefully on a horse, the fine people from both sides riding together. Very classy, that will truely look majestic and we want him to look like a King.

I'll tell you, I felt like a King today. When we were at Martin's statue, VP Pence said something so beautiful and so smart. He said I'm doing exactly what Martin did. That "He inspired us to change through the legislative process to become a more perfect union." Thank you, Mike. I'm very honored. And it's so true. Martin was a fighter. And he would be fighting very hard for Border Security -- if he was still around (RIP!!). Because he loved Barriers. Because he loved our Country, and without a Border you don't have a Country!
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This is for the haters & loosers. The ones that have never been to Russia but are always saying, "oh, Russia, Russia, Russia." That want me to get impeached. Or they think if they just say mean things & tweet scarey pictures I'll quit -- Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. Trust me, I'm not about to quit.

Today I'm starting my 3rd year. Important for VP Pence. And, for you. Because of Constitution.

"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once." The 22nd. Amendment.

VP Pence takes over today -- he's not going to, but if he did -- he gets, I think, 10 years minus a day. Up to. Because you get to elect him twice. He steps in tomorrow and it's 10 years minus 2 days. And maybe you're thinking, "oh, impeach him too." Not going to happen. The guy doesn't even have pictures of his wife. In case they give him impure thoughts. Enjoy!

I'm staring down at a child in India who is starving to death.
I could feed him, but do not.

I am called a monster by all.

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God is staring down at a child in India who is starving to death.
God could feed him, but does not.

God gets a pass with "God works in mysterious ways".

Why are we enabling God to be a monster?
I've heard ridiculous things like "It's God's way of teaching us in the west a lesson, or to be better people.

If there IS a God, why isn't he better than he is? He IS all-powerful, isn't he?

Getting so many messages thanking & congratulating me. And I want to say, you're welcome. Because -- in about half an hour -- it's 2 years since my glorious Inauguration. Since our swearing in. Me and VP Pence. I say swearing. But without cussing. I'm from New York, we don't do that. But, I've done so much. And it has been something very special. We’ve done things that nobody would have thought possible. And I say it often -- and I don’t get rebuked for saying it -- but no administration has done more in the first two years than the Trump administration.

When you think about the tax cuts and the regulation cuts, and all of the things that have happened, including two great, new Supreme Court justices. They're young guys, they're going to be in those seats for a very very long time. And hopefully we'll have a couple more seats opening very soon. And the Court of Appeals Judges, so important. People don't think about that one. But I've appointed more in the first two years than any President. Great article in the Amazon Washington Post. And we'd love to see more articles like that one. whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/washington-post-little-fanfare-trump-mcconnell-reshape-nations-circuit-courts

It has been a very, very special, special time. And we’re doing so much. And we did the criminal justice reform. First Step Act. They’ve been trying to do it for many, many years. Couldn't do it. Then -- President Donald J. Trump. And it happened, very beautifully. And so many of our wonderful Felons getting the vote now. Getting a Franchise. In Florida, in many places. And so many getting out of our prisons earlier -- because of me and a lot of smart Congress people from both sides.

And if the Republicans and the Democrats get together, we are going to end up with incredible healthcare, which is the way it should have been from Day One. The Universal, my biggest promise. And it’s going to happen. It now has a chance to happen.

And the other thing I'd love to see them start working on very shortly is an Infrastructure Bill, because that’s something I think everybody wants to see. And a big part of the new, and very strong infrastructure needs to be on our Southern Border. The Wall, the Barrier, Fence -- call it whatever you want. Terrible situation down there. For the migrants and everybody else. So hopefully we’ll start working on that. People ask me, "what about the Wall, didn't you say you were going to build the wall?" I haven't forgotten that one, believe me. And by the way, new Poll. Saying my support w/Hispanics shot up 19%. To, it's now 50%. Don't we love Polls? I love the Polls when they're very positive.

So, thank you, everybody. And, you're welcome. Even the haters & losers. Can we say, have a great New Year? Why not. Great New Year! We’re going to have an incredible new year for our Country, most importantly. A very happy and healthy New Year. Because of me!! promiseskept.com