People suffering from gender dysphoria in Japan must be sterilized before they can change official documents to reflect the gender of their choosing rather than biological sex.
A panel of judges unanimously upheld a ruling Wednesday stating that individuals identifying as transgender must have “no reproductive glands or reproductive glands that have permanently lost function,” if they seek to change official records displaying sex, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Four judges upheld the decision, ruling that the law was constitutional. The law also insists that persons wishing to change official documentation must look like the gender with which they identify. Transgender persons seeking document changes must have “a body which appears to have parts that resemble the genital organs of those of the opposite gender,” the law states, according to AFP.
Wednesday’s decision comes after Japanese man Takakito Usui sued over the law’s requirements. Usui is biologically male but identifies as female. He is seeking documentation that reflects his gender choice.
The law is meant to protect parent-child relationships that might otherwise cause “confusion” in society, according to the judges, AFP reported. (RELATED: Record Number Of Children Identifying As Transgender In U.K.)
While the decision was unanimous, presiding justice Mamoru Miura issued an additional opinion casting doubt on the court’s decision. The law may not violate Japan’s constitution, but “doubts are undeniably emerging,” according to Miura, The Daily Mail reported.
The judges acknowledged that the decision is aggressive and that the court should continue to examine the decision.
“Suffering related to gender, felt by people with gender identity disorder, is also the problem of society as a whole, which should encompass the diversity of sexual identity,” Miura wrote in the additional opinion, according to AFP.
Usui’s lawyer, Tomoyasu Oyama, was incredulous at the decision. “In this day and age, I can’t believe there is a law that requires people to have surgery,” Oyama told AFP.
The decision comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump can temporarily enforce restrictions banning transgender persons from serving in the military.
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Isnt it pretty logical anyway? I mean humans are born how they are born, a man can never bear a child no matter what he does and a women can never produce semen, if someone want to be a man or a women instead of what they are then doesn’t it make sense that they A look like what they want to be and B lose the function of their former gender? I mean a women cant get another women pregnant and so a transgender women wanting to keep the ability to get women pregnant is hypocrisy, it basically them refusing to commit to their decision. This response is far more logical than most country’s that either criminalize it or legalize it but dont seem to care whether a women can still get a women pregnant or a man can be pregnant which is anti scientific. I dont care whether people are transgender or not, what i care about is that people who wish to be so actually commit to their change rather than saying they are something but not caring to try and appear as what they claim to be
Sterilized?? Useless action.
The queers do not breed, they recruit in school yards! They should be in mental hospitals!