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SHIZUOKA, Japan − A Japanese court has said that a law requiring surgery to switch genders on a family registry is unconstitutional in a ruling on a case involving a transgender man in central Japan, his lawyers said Thursday.
The Hamamatsu branch of the Shizuoka Family Court delivered the country's first judgment on a challenge to the rule after the man, Gen Suzuki, filed a request in 2021 seeking to change his gender without sex reassignment surgery, according to the lawyers.
The decision Wednesday by the central Japan court allows Suzuki, 48, to be listed as a man in his family registry without undergoing an operation to remove reproductive capacity.
Japanese law on gender identity disorder requires sex reassignment surgery as a condition for changing one's gender.
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The Hamamatsu branch of the Shizuoka Family Court delivered the country's first judgment on a challenge to the rule after the man, Gen Suzuki, filed a request in 2021 seeking to change his gender without sex reassignment surgery, according to the lawyers.
The decision Wednesday by the central Japan court allows Suzuki, 48, to be listed as a man in his family registry without undergoing an operation to remove reproductive capacity.
Japanese law on gender identity disorder requires sex reassignment surgery as a condition for changing one's gender.
Japan court says requiring surgery for gender switch unconstitutional
A Japanese court has said that a law requiring surgery to switch genders on a family registry is unconstitutional in a ruling on a case involving a transgender man in central Japan, according to his lawyers.
