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BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 1 year ago

Japan court lets transgender man change official status without sterilisation in legal first

www.theguardian.com

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Japan court lets transgender man change official status without sterilisation in legal first

www.theguardian.com

BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 1 year ago
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Ruling comes months after supreme court ruled that requiring sterilisation before a change of gender in official records was unconstitutional

Archived version: https://archive.ph/qbB52
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240208021134/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/08/japan-transgender-man-status-change-ruling-court-sterilisation

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    So up until very recently, Japan was requiring transgender people to be sterilized? 😬

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      It’s a click-baity headline. They previously required surgical transition, which results in sterilisation. You couldn’t ‘just’ get a vasectomy or hysterectomy to get legal recognition, you needed new genitals too.

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        Why. Are. Governments. So. Concerned. With. Our. Fucking. Genitals.

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          Don’t worry, I got a plan! I named my junk “climate” & “change” so presumably they will begin worrying about something productive.

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      They make cute things so, in general, we don’t talk about how completely fucked Japan can be.

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      Yeeeeeeep. One of those “no one likes talking about it” things.

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      Believe it or not, but many countries in the West didn’t drop that horrific requirement until a decade ago.

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      Australia still requires it. The state made me get steralised.

      Cool and good.

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      Correct, but only if you wanted to change your legal gender. So many transgendered people in Japan have yet to do so to avoid undergoing that procedure.

      Hopefully, that’s no longer a problem.

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      Nani the fuck!?

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      They also outlawed csam stuff only a few years ago.

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        CSAM involves actual real life children, the term does not include cartoon child pornography. The whole reason CSAM was coined as a term was to distinguish between the two, such that law enforcement can target their efforts where it matters.

        They only outlawed cartoon child pornography a few years ago, but child sexual abuse has basically always been illegal.

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          Im not talking “lolis”.

          https://time.com/2892728/japan-finally-bans-child-pornography/

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            I stand corrected, thanks.

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            Ten years ago isn’t “a few” lol

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              Yes it is. Especially for outlawing CSAM.

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