(Photo by Mikhail Pavstyuk at Unsplash) On 19 March, the Kyoto Family Court rejected a petition brought by a married trans woman to change legal sex. The petition stemmed from the fact that Japan’s legal transition law requires a person to be unmarried. The petitioner has already expressed her intention Continue Reading
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Fourth Japanese High Court Finds No Marriage Equality Unconstitutional
PHOTO: Nagoya High Court building, by Evelyn-Rose, via Wikimedia Commons. So many courts in Japan have found the country not allowing same sex couples to marry unconstitutional that we are having trouble thinking of new, catchy titles for articles. Hopefully, parliament will listen and we won’t have to! (See our Continue Reading
Two New Papers on Qualitative Research Not Included In Cass
Two papers published in December 2024 and January 2025 as open articles delve into narrative accounts discussing trans health care for adolescents and young adults. These papers are based on research commissioned by the Cass Review, but which were conducted independently of it, over a period between March 2022 and Continue Reading
Major Trans Stories Out of Japan, December 2024
Outside of the major cases regarding marriage equality in Japan which we have been reporting on (with the latest case out of Fukuoka discussed here), there have been a few other stories that definitely deserve a look. The first is the story of a trans woman’s efforts to get unreasonable Continue Reading
Yet Another Court Finding for Marriage Equality in Japan
On 13 December 2024, the Fukuoka High Court found that the current state of Japanese law which disallows same sex marriage is unconstitutional. This is in keeping with two previous High Court rulings, one in Sapporo and the other in Tokyo, which we have reported on earlier. While the other Continue Reading