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I can’t be the only person who read this and went “Jesus fucking Christ, they were doing what?”
Finland was the same until about a year ago. Changing your legal gender used to require "inability to procreate", which effectively meant sterilisation.
It's tragically very common. Many US states won't update documents without bottom surgery as do many European countries. Far be for a trans person to exist with thr ability to give birth. What if their child... catches it?!?!
It's sort of disgusting what passes as progress for us. Mandatory sterilization says a lot about how the world views trans folk. Hopefully this turns into a Denmark situation where these requirements are apologized for, not like $5k really makes up for losing the ability to start a family.
I am a proud member of Team Rainbow and have been actively engaged since ACT UP, and I am ashamed to say I did not know this.
I donate to Trevor and HRC and the Matthew Shepard Foundation, so if I didn’t know about this, I can’t even imagine how ignorant others must be. There’s so much going on right now that it just gets overwhelming.
Thank you so much for those links. You’ve really opened my eyes.
Finally, a small bit of good news!
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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