TOKYO: Japan's top court will decide on Wednesday (Oct 25) on the legality of requiring transgender people to be sterilised in order to change their legal gender.
Under rules introduced in 2004, transgender people can only change their gender on legal documents if they appeal to a family court and meet criteria including gender confirmation surgery and having no reproductive capacity - generally requiring sterilisation.
But campaigners say that conditions imposed by Japan, the only country in the Group of 7 that does not recognise same-sex marriage or civil unions at a national level, force people into highly invasive, lengthy and potentially risky medical procedures. And in recent months activists have warned of a rising tide of hateful online rhetoric, particularly targeting transgender women, fuelled in part by contentious debate around anti-discrimination legislation that passed this year, albeit in watered-down form.At the heart of Wednesday's case is a transgender Japanese woman seeking to be legally listed as female without surgery.Her past petitions to a family court, and then a higher court, were both rejected.
Wednesday's top court ruling has been hotly anticipated among Japan's transgender community, including 34-year-old transgender man Tomoya Asanuma.
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