Interesting Global NewsEnglish · 5 months ago

Japan court lets transgender man change official status without sterilisation in legal first

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Japan court lets transgender man change official status without sterilisation in legal first

www.theguardian.com

Interesting Global NewsEnglish · 5 months ago

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Ruling comes months after supreme court ruled that requiring sterilisation before a change of gender in official records was unconstitutional

Archived version: https://archive.ph/qbB52
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240208021134/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/08/japan-transgender-man-status-change-ruling-court-sterilisation

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Correct, but only if you wanted to change your legal gender. So many transgendered people in Japan have yet to do so to avoid undergoing that procedure.

Hopefully, that’s no longer a problem.

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