(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
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
Upcoming Legislative Outlook for Trans Issues in Japan
As the Japanese Diet (Japan’s parliament) has ended its normal legislative session for the year with quite a bit of unfinished business, there will almost certainly be an extraordinary legislative session come fall. Of note, there are already reports as to what sorts of things lie in wait regarding trans Continue Reading
Trans Woman Challenges Requirement to be Unmarried for Legal Transition in Japan
On 16 July 2024, a trans woman petitioned the Kyoto Family Court to allow her to legally transition while remaining married, making the case that the requirement to be unmarried is unconstitutional. A description of the case is available on Call4’s website here (Japanese/English) and a PDF of the petition Continue Reading