Japanese Court: Sterilization as Criteria for Gender Status Change Unconstitutional - Unseen Japan
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In Japan, legal gender status can only be changed following surgery and sterilization. A court decision now calls this unconstitutional.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/4131908

Article by Unseen Japan, reporting on a ruling by Japanese court that allowed a trans man to change their legal status without undergoing sterilization. A law required this, but the judge now considered that part of the law unconstitutional and accepted the trans man’s request.