TOP COURT: SURGERY REQUIREMENT FOR GENDER CHANGE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
#849_2023年10月25日のニュース
In a landmark ruling, Japan's Supreme Court has decided that requiring people to undergo surgery to remove their reproductive functions when they wish to officially change gender is unconstitutional.
A person registered as a man but living as a woman asked a family court to allow a gender change without surgery, claiming that enforcing it would violate their human rights and the Constitution.
Both the family court and then a high court dismissed the case. But the Grand Bench of the Supreme Court said on Wednesday that the requirement does indeed violate the Constitution.
The Supreme Court has ordered the high court to retry the case.
最高裁判所は命じました、高等裁判所に、その件の審理をやり直すように。
Under current Japanese law, a person's gender on official documents can only be changed if certain conditions are met, such as the individual no longer having the reproductive functions he or she was born with.