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Japan high court backs gender status change without surgery (www.japantimes.co.jp)

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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

that a transgender woman should be able to change the sex assigned to them at birth

kiryu-pain

The person should have no reproductive glands, or have their functions of reproductive glands permanently lost

The person should have a body resembling the genital organs of the opposite gender

This policing of the body is obscene and really shows how much cisheterosexuality is an enforced regime. So, good riddance.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

These exact policies still are central to a lot of gender ID laws around the world, and used to be a part of them in many other countries that only ditched them recently. In the case of Germany, these were on the books as late as 2011, and there was even a clause that retroactively voided changing your gender ID if you used frozen pre-transition sperm or eggs to have children.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

In the case of Germany, these were on the books as late as 2011, and there was even a clause that retroactively voided changing your gender ID if you used frozen pre-transition sperm or eggs to have children.

Wtf wtf-am-i-reading

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

We've only gotten anything close to self ID this year, and it came after over a year of a veritable shitfest of political fearmongering against trans people, and the law is still full of bs clauses like "no changing your gender to female in case of war" or "sports organizations can decide for themselves if they want to recognize your gender, and if businesses want to force you to use the wrong bathroom that's up to them to decide". And if i look at past court judgements, none of that crap will hold up if anybody has the nerve, time and money to fight through all circuits against it, but it'll take decades before that happens for every single paragraph of pure nonsense in that law.

I mean, it's better than what we had before, i'm glad i can finally get my papers in order before the year is over and let me not even begin about the horror stories i've heard of some of the psychiatric evaluations you used to have to go through to change your name, but this shit has seriously driven home the point that i'm still nothing but a political football to our legislature.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

germany-cool I hate to hear it. I can recall hearing german trans people relay horrific stories about psych evals back in the day. Sad to hear the lack of change.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

We need a trans JDWON now

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Most people do not know this, but many countries in the West had genital surgery requirements for legally changing your gender before the 2010s. For example, in the Netherlands this used to be part of a trans law from 1985 that wasn't changed until 2014.

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