Ruling comes months after supreme court ruled that requiring sterilisation before a change of gender in official records was unconstitutional
      •  SatanicNotMessianic   ( @SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml ) 
        6•5 months ago

        I can’t tell if your question is intended to be sarcastic or not, but just in case the majority of trans persons, including a large majority of trans women, never get surgery. A larger portion of trans men get surgery (mastectomies) because it’s a lot harder to pass if you have prominent breasts. Trans men with smaller breasts, including younger people, will often use a binder, which compresses the breasts so that they’re much less noticeable.

        There are a number of reasons trans persons don’t get surgery. Some simply do not want it, and that’s okay. We don’t get to be gatekeepers on this issue. Being trans can be entirely about presentation. Some would ideally have it, but they’ve set up a lot of hoops for people to jump through. There can be a long series of consultations and exams that are required to determine if a person is going to be considered a candidate for surgery. It can be expensive, and isn’t always covered by insurance. As with all surgeries, there’s always a risk of complications and variability in outcomes.

        Again, I hope you were being sarcastic, but if not (or for others), I hope that answers some questions.

  •  AutoTL;DR   ( @autotldr@lemmings.world ) BEnglish
    2•5 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    A court in western Japan has approved a transgender man’s request to have his gender changed in official records without undergoing sterilisation surgery, the first known ruling of its kind since the country’s top court struck down a surgery requirement for such record changes.

    Japan’s supreme court ruled in October that a provision of a 20-year-old law that made the removal of reproductive organs a precondition for the legal recognition of gender changes was unconstitutional.

    The Okayama court found that the hormone therapy Usui received made him eligible for gender affirmation.

    Many LGBTQ+ people in Japan still hide their sexual orientations and gender identities due to fear of discrimination at work and schools.

    But change has come slowly in a country led by a conservative government that sticks to traditional paternalistic values and is reluctant to accept gender, sexual and family diversity.

    It stated that individuals who wanted to register a gender change needed to have reproductive organs, including testes or ovaries, removed.

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