Japanese media: Changing the gender without surgery The Okayama family cuts the Tsuyama branch to admit the second appeal
2024/2/7 15:15
In response to the Supreme Court's decision in October last year that the provisions of the Special Cases Act on Gender Identity Disorders were "unconstitutional" in response to the change of gender in Shinsho Village, Okayama Prefecture, the Okayama Family Tsuyama Branch accepted the application for a gender change from a female to a male in response to a request by 50-year-old Takalai Usui in Shinsho Village, Okayama Prefecture. Usui revealed the news at a press conference on the 7th. This is the second time Usui has filed a complaint with the branch.
Usui was born with a woman's body and lived a male life, without undergoing surgery such as ovarian removal. In 2016, he applied to the branch for permission to change his gender without surgery on the grounds that the provisions of the Special Cases Act on Gender Identity Disorder were "unconstitutional," but that it was denied. The Okayama branch of the Hiroshima Takasho Okayama, which immediately appealed, also rejected the appeal. The Supreme Court also ruled in 2019 that it was "currently constitutional" and that a change of gender was not allowed.
In October last year, the Supreme People's Court (SPC) ruled that the special law requiring surgery for incapacity for reproductive incapacity was "unconstitutional and invalid" in the trial of other applicants. In accordance with this provision, Usui filed a second complaint in December of the same year, without waiting for the special law to be amended.
来源:朝日新聞（上山崎雅泰）
