Japan's supreme court rules in favor of forced sterilization of trans people

[DonViejo]

Source: LGBTQ Nation



By Alex Bollinger · Friday, January 25, 2019

The Japanese supreme court has ruled in favor of a law that requires transgender people to get sterilized in order to update their documents.

The case was brought by Takakito Usui, a trans man who wanted to update his papers but was told that he couldn’t because of a 2004 law that requires a trans person to have “a body which appears to have parts that resemble the genital organs of those of the opposite gender.”

“The essential thing should not be whether you have had an operation or not, but how you want to live as an individual,” Usui said. He appealed, but lost when a four-judge panel unanimously agreed that the law was constitutional.

The court ruled that the government had an interest in limiting societal “confusion” and “abrupt changes.”

Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/01/japans-supreme-court-rules-favor-forced-sterilization-trans-people/

[marble falls]

1. Jebus. Kind of shocking from a first world country.

[chowder66]

3. Very shocking. nt

[marble falls]

7. I can't believe surgeons would agree to perform an unneeded and forced surgery ...

Japanese surgeons were found guilty of this as war crimes in the aftermath of WWII.

[chowder66]

9. Good point. I hope they don't. nt

[Doodley]

29. Post removed.

[BamaRefugee]

2. The Pearl Harbor of court decisions...

[MLAA]

4. Time to boycott Japan

I have enjoyed a couple of trips to Japan over the years. Will not go again until this Stone Age legislation is changed. Will no longer buy Japanese goods as well.

[rogue emissary]

6. +1

[rogue emissary]

5. Kick for visibility.

Hopefully Fox news won't air this story. I'd hate Donny to get any ideas.

[not fooled]

8. Yikes! Sad but true

OR any of the puke SCROTUS Holy Rollers, e.g. boof and gosuck.

[rogue emissary]

11. Exactly.

[atreides1]

10. WTF???

"... interest in limiting societal “confusion” and “abrupt changes.”

Ever seen some of what passes for adult entertainment that comes from Japan? Talk about societal confusion...

[madaboutharry]

28. In one of Anthony Bourdain's books he wrote about Japanese porn.

He wrote how “disturbing” it was and that it was a new kind of weird, even for him.

[sakabatou]

12. WTF?!

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Ho. Ly. Shit. What century is this ??

It's the century when we still hunt whales, I guess.

[MicaelS]

14. Japan still has Capital Punishment.

Death by hanging. On Christmas Day. I am completely serious.

[Nitram]

16. Yes, Japan has capital punishment. I fail to see what relevance Christmas Day has to the issue.

Xmas has no religious connotation in Japan. But seriously, how many people have been executed in Japan over the last 20 years? 89 since 2000 as compared with the 892 in the US. So with three times the population of Japan, the US has executed 10 times more people. What was your point?

[MicaelS]

17. That Japan is not as civilized as many on the Left think.

Every time an argument occurs about CP, someone will post a comment to the effect that the US is in league with countries like China, Saudi Arabia, etc. Most times they forget to mention Japan.

As far as Christmas Day relevance, my opinion is that it is deliberate, because much of the rest if the world is celebrating, so it would not appear on the news. Whereas on a slow news day, it might lead to a great deal of criticism in the World Press.

[Nitram]

21. I lived in Japan for 21 years, so while I take issue with your use of the word "civilized" in

connection to CP in a country where the rule of law and due process are honored, I would agree that Japan is far more conservative, and less humanistic, than many liberals believe. If a preponderance of executions take place on Christmas Day, then you could be right that the day is chosen to prevent other countries from noticing. I haven't seen evidence that is the case.

[Initech]

15. Holy fuck... that's absolutely psychotic.

[Solly Mack]

18. Wow

Sick sick sick

[Marrah_Goodman]

19. WTF Japan? n/t

[ripcord]

20. Strange

In a land where tentacle porn is popular this is what they find offensive?

[Nitram]

22. "Tentacle porn" is no more popular in Japan than "rough sex" and other unpleasant porn genres

in in the US. In fact, it might be more popular in the west than in Japan. In Japan the genre is mainly popular among deviants and nerds who still live with their parents,

[betsuni]

23. Still illegal for spouses to have different surnames in Japan.

One of them has to take the others's name when they marry. Otherwise there would be mass "societal confusion" and what about the children and so on. So this ruling is not a surprise.

[allgood33]

24. I must not understand what "trans" really means. I thought it meant having sex change by surgery?

So tell me again why "sterilization" is required?

[mr_lebowski]

30. I believe the term 'sterilization' is being used here as a substitute for the operation you refer to

IOW you MUST have a sex change to change gender in Japan. And that will make you sterile.

[Shaddox]

25. So, Japan is going to crack down on "deviancy". JFC what is wrong with the world?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

27. And who among us has the right to declare transgender a "deviancy"

You're new here. DU is a not a place where we casually throw around words like "deviancy" to describe other human beings.

Maybe you confused us with Breitbart . . .

[Jedi Guy]

32. I think the use of quotation marks is relevant here.

I don't think the person you replied to believes that transgender people are deviants. It's like when people on here talk about Trump being a "very stable genius." The quotes in that context indicate disbelief and derision, as do the quotes around "deviancy" here.

I think you misinterpreted what was actually meant, because I definitely didn't read it that way. Maybe that's just me, though.

Edited to add: Shaddox has actually been a member for five months longer than you, even though you have far more posts.

[orangecrush]

26. This saddens me.

I had houed the Japanese were more enlightened.

[mr_lebowski]

31. Pretty sure what the law says is that you must get a sex change operation to legally change your

gender.

That's pretty different from 'mandatory sterilizations for trans-people'.

Granted, a sex change operation will, de-facto, sterilize you ... but ... it's a side effect, more or less.