New Law for Japan's Transsexuals

From Tokyo (Kyodo News) comes word that applications to alter officially registered gender may now be submitted to the Tokyo Family Court.

This landmark legislation enables people with gender identity disorder to change their sex in family registries under certain conditions. The new law officially took effect on Friday.

There ARE requirments: Besides medical and psychological documentation by professionals, applicants must be at least 20 years of age, unmarried, have no children, and no longer have functioning reproductive organs of their former gender (as a result of undergoing sex change operations).

Although SRS (Sex Reassignment Surgery) had been taboo in Japanese Culture, the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology introduced guidelines for such operations in 1997.

Posted: Saturday 17th July 2004, 11:50 PM

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