Japan's Supreme Court said that requiring transgender people to be sterilised in order to change their legal gender was unconstitutional.
The sterilisation requirement"restricts a person's free rights not to have their bodies invaded against their will," the court said in a keenly awaited decision.
"The government is under the obligation to make any laws constitutional so the government now needs to act quickly to remove the clause," said Kanae Doi, Japan director of the rights group."It's late, but never too late." Those requirements are: being at least 18 years old; not being married; not having underage children; having genital organs that resemble those of the opposite gender; and having no reproductive glands or ones that have permanently lost their function.
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