Japan court OKs gender change without confirmation surgery

A Japanese high court on Wednesday approved an official gender change for a transgender woman who has not undergone confirmation surgery as legally required, in a rare decision.The clause requiring gender confirmation surgery is "suspected of being unconstitutional" as it forces an individual to choose between undergoing surgery or giving up on gender change, the Hiroshima High Court said.The court acknowledged that hormone therapy can alter the appearance of genitalia even without surgery and admitted that the body parts of the petitioner, who was assigned male at birth, are already "femin…READ FULL ARTICLE