TOKYO — Japan's top court said on Wednesday (Oct 25) that obliging transgender people to be sterilised in order to change their legal gender was unconstitutional.
People attend the Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2023 Parade in Tokyo on April 23, 2023, to show support for members of the LGBT community.
The requirement imposes a"cruel choice" on those who wish to change gender between"embracing the sterilisation surgery that requires an intense level of bodily invasion" and"relinquishing important legal benefits of being treated according to their gender identity", the court said. But campaigners say that conditions imposed by Japan, the only Group of 7 wealthy country that does not recognise same-sex marriage or civil unions at a national level, forced people into highly invasive, lengthy and potentially risky medical procedures.
In July, Japan's Supreme Court ruled in favour of a transgender bureaucrat who sued the government over access to female toilets at work.
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