Japan's top court says surgery need for gender change unconstitutional

Japan's Supreme Court on Wednesday declared in a historic ruling that a law requiring surgery to remove a person's reproductive capabilities to register a gender change was unconstitutional in a case brought by a transgender woman.The judgment, which was a consensus of all 15 justices of the top court's Grand Bench, marked a turnaround from a 2019 top court decision that had found a legal provision requiring sterilization for a gender change on a family registry constitutional.People "are forced to make a tough choice between surgery and abandoning the decision to change genders," the top c…READ FULL ARTICLE