Fumino Sugiyama, 42, who is listed as female on the family register but now lives as a man. Japan's Supreme Court has started listening to oral arguments in a case over the constitutionality of a legal provision that effectively requires a person who wants to change their gender on the official family register to first undergo surgery to eliminate their reproductive functions.
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The current law, which forces people to undergo surgery even though they don’t want to, violates their human rights.
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TaiwanIsNotChina
What kind of perverse requirement is this? Is the government worried about not being able to fill in both the Father and the Mother slot on a birth certificate?
virusrex
Some day Japan has to stop its schizophrenia, either it comes to the modern times like the other countries in the developed world did or gives up trying to pretend is doing anything to stop gender based discrimination. Right now it is just saying it is trying to do something while at the same time sabotaging any actual effort to reach that goal.
piskian
Can you believe that this country is part of G7?
Shows their priorities.
CuteUsagi
The reproductive system cannot be changed to the delusional thoughts of a real sex change due to genetics as the XY is a male and the XX is a female and the Japanese system recognizes both as such.
If one wants to be suddenly a female but still has the reproductive organs of a male, then that person should not be registered as a female. What if the so-called new female engages in a sexual act and gets one pregnant? How would the person be registered if there is no dad?
Just my thoughts on the logic behind it all and no offense to anyone.
TaiwanIsNotChina
So then why is the government obsessing about it to this level? Also plenty of those reproductive systems are defective at time of manufacture or include both sets of parts.
So basically what I sad: that form sure needs a name for that slot, human rights be damned. I wonder what they do when the mother doesn't know or won't say who the father is.
albaleo
I don't think anyone is "forced to undergo surgery". Is the question not whether you can self-declare your gender on various forms?