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A court in western Japan has approved a transgender man’s request to have his gender changed in official records without undergoing sterilisation surgery, the first known ruling of its kind since the country’s top court struck down a surgery requirement for such record changes.

Japan’s supreme court ruled in October that a provision of a 20-year-old law that made the removal of reproductive organs a precondition for the legal recognition of gender changes was unconstitutional.

The Okayama court found that the hormone therapy Usui received made him eligible for gender affirmation.

Many LGBTQ+ people in Japan still hide their sexual orientations and gender identities due to fear of discrimination at work and schools.

But change has come slowly in a country led by a conservative government that sticks to traditional paternalistic values and is reluctant to accept gender, sexual and family diversity.

It stated that individuals who wanted to register a gender change needed to have reproductive organs, including testes or ovaries, removed.

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