• Mario_Dies.wav
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    4410 months ago

    So up until very recently, Japan was requiring transgender people to be sterilized? 😬

    • @JoBo@feddit.uk
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      3010 months ago

      It’s a click-baity headline. They previously required surgical transition, which results in sterilisation. You couldn’t ‘just’ get a vasectomy or hysterectomy to get legal recognition, you needed new genitals too.

    • @aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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      910 months ago

      Correct, but only if you wanted to change your legal gender. So many transgendered people in Japan have yet to do so to avoid undergoing that procedure.

      Hopefully, that’s no longer a problem.