Japan court says requiring surgery for gender switch unconstitutional

A Japanese court has said that a law requiring surgery to switch genders on a family registry is unconstitutional in a ruling on a case involving a transgender man in central Japan, his lawyers said Thursday.The Hamamatsu branch of the Shizuoka Family Court delivered the country's first judgment on a challenge to the rule after the man, Gen Suzuki, filed a request in 2021 seeking to change his gender without sex reassignment surgery, according to the lawyers.The decision Wednesday by the central Japan court allows Suzuki, 48, to be listed as a man in his family registry without undergoing a…READ FULL ARTICLE