{"id":61754,"date":"2024-02-08T10:24:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T01:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/08\/japan-transgender-man-status-change-ruling-court-sterilisation"},"modified":"2024-02-08T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T01:24:20","slug":"japan-court-lets-transgender-man-change-official-status-without-sterilisation-in-legal-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61754","title":{"rendered":"Japan court lets transgender man change official status without sterilisation in legal first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling comes months after supreme court ruled that requiring sterilisation before a change of gender in official records was unconstitutional<\/p>\n<p>A court in western Japan has approved a transgender man\u2019s request to have his gender changed in official records <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/25\/japan-court-rules-mandatory-sterilisation-transgender-unconstitutional\">without undergoing sterilisation surgery<\/a>, the first known ruling of its kind since the country\u2019s top court struck down a surgery requirement for such record changes.<\/p>\n<p>Tacaquito Usui, 50, could get the gender listed for him in his family registry updated to male, the Okayama family court\u2019s Tsuyama branch ruled on Wednesday. Usui\u2019s original application for the revision was rejected five years ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/08\/japan-transgender-man-status-change-ruling-court-sterilisation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling comes months after supreme court ruled that requiring sterilisation before a change of gender in official records was unconstitutionalA court in western Japan has approved a transgender man\u2019s request to have his gender changed in official record&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,646,88,79,572],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gender","category-japan","category-society","category-transgender"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61754","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61755,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61754\/revisions\/61755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}