“It is definitely a system that is wrecking people’s dignity as a human being.'
Young girl is watching sunset over Tokyo in Odaiba. By Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Reporter covering foreign affairs Email Bio Follow March 19 at 9:30 PM In order to legally change one’s gender in Japan, Japanese transgender people need to be at least 20 years old, get a diagnosis for “gender identity disorder,” undergo sex reassignment surgery, become irreversibly infertile through sterilization , have no underage children, and, if they are married, get divorced.
Rather than leaving that decision up to the individual, the 2003 Act on Special Cases in Handling Gender Status for Persons with Gender Identity Disorder says that transgender people cannot change the gender on their paperwork without also having surgery -- and getting a diagnosis for a disorder, which, as of May 2019, won’t be recognized by the World Health Organization.
“This law is gonna have to be changed -- it’s incoherent once the diagnosis no longer exists,” Knight said. “We wanted to give them a road map for changing it.” Knight and his co-author, Kanae Doi, recommend that Japan’s Ministry of Justice amend the law to bring it into accordance with international standards , stop necessarily excluding transgender people under the age of 20 to change their legal gender, and stop requiring people to be single in order to change their legal gender.
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