{"id":59416,"date":"2023-10-25T16:14:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T07:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/25\/japan-court-rules-mandatory-sterilisation-transgender-unconstitutional"},"modified":"2023-10-25T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T07:14:03","slug":"japan-court-rules-mandatory-sterilisation-of-people-officially-changing-gender-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59416","title":{"rendered":"Japan court rules mandatory sterilisation of people officially changing gender unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judges reject requirement for trans people to remove reproductive organs for state-recognised gender change<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s top court has ruled that a legal clause requiring people to undergo sterilisation surgery if they want to legally change their gender is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Several international organisations including the European court of human rights, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and UN had said the requirement was discriminatory and infringed on human rights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/25\/japan-court-rules-mandatory-sterilisation-transgender-unconstitutional\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges reject requirement for trans people to remove reproductive organs for state-recognised gender changeJapan\u2019s top court has ruled that a legal clause requiring people to undergo sterilisation surgery if they want to legally change their gender is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,86,2729,79,572,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-law","category-lgbtq-rights","category-society","category-transgender","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59417,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59416\/revisions\/59417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}