Human Rights Watch urges Japan to drop its requirement that transgender people be sterilized before their gender is changed on official documents. - NBCOUT
Participants smile as they march with a banner during the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade celebrating the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in Tokyo's Shibuya district on May 7, 2017.Human Rights Watch urged Japan on Wednesday to drop its requirement that transgender people be sterilized before their gender is changed on official documents.
"Japan's government needs urgently to address and fundamentally revise the legal recognition process that remains anchored to a diagnostic framework that fails to meet international standards," the report said. It said the law, which still defines gender incongruence as a"disorder," is out of step with international medical standards.
Japanese society has a growing awareness of sexual diversity but it is often superficial. Pressure for conformity forces many LGBTQ people to hide their sexual identity even from their families, and transgender people often have high obstacles to living outside traditional gender roles.
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