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Japan, Kyoto – A married transgender woman, who was born a male and underwent sex change surgery, asked a court here on Feb. 8 to allow her to change her sex in her family register.
The woman, who is in her 50s and runs a company, argued in the case filed at the Kyoto Family Court that her constitutional right to pursue happiness was being violated by the law on special cases in handling gender status for people with gender identify disorder.
She contended since the law contains a clause that does not allow married people to change the sex in their family register, she would have to get a divorce to do so.
According to court papers and the transgender woman, she was born a male and married a woman when he was 29 and lives with their daughter, now an adult, in Kyoto.
In 2012, she was diagnosed with gender identity disorder and had sex reassignment surgery two years later to become a woman.
Under the law that took effect in 2004, changing the sex in the family register is allowed only for people 20 or older who underwent sex change surgery, such as removal of their ovaries and testicles, who are not married and whose children are adults.
Source and full English article: The Asahi Shimbun
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902100027.html
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