The ruling is the Japanese top court’s first on working conditions for LGBTQ individuals. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO - In a landmark verdict, Japan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favour of a transgender bureaucrat who sued the government over access to female toilets at work.
The ruling is the Japanese top court’s first on working conditions for LGBTQ individuals, and experts said it could change the way the public and private sectors navigate sensitive questions on women-only spaces. The woman had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria around 1999, while already a government employee, and in 2009 told her supervisor she wished to dress and work as a woman.
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