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TOKYO – Japan’s top court said Wednesday obliging transgender people to be sterilized to change their legal gender was unconstitutional.
Under rules introduced in 2004, transgender people applying to legally change their gender must meet criteria including forfeiting reproductive capacity — effectively meaning sterilisation. “The procedure for changing one’s legally recognized gender, which requires sterilization surgery and an outdated psychiatric diagnosis, is anachronistic, harmful, and discriminatory,” Human Rights Watch had said in a 2019 report.
Opinion polls have shown growing support for LGBTQ-friendly laws, especially among younger people, but the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has been reluctant to push ahead with reforms. “It’s extremely rare for the supreme court to rule a law unconstitutional,” her lawyer Kazuyuki Minami told reporters on Wednesday.
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