User:Mairi/GID law

The Law Concerning Special Cases in Handling Gender for People with Gender Identity Disorder (性同一性障害者の性別の取扱いの特例に関する法律) is a Japanese law passed on July 16, 2003.

Persons who meet the requirements for Gender Identity Disorder, with a family court judgement, under the law gender, can change koseki's sex record. It is also called ... The law went into effect on July 16, 2004.

The first application of the law, on July 28, 2004, an Okinawan resident in hir 20's koseki male to female changed. From female to male. In the same year, on August 27,　under the Tokyo family court, a Tokyo Metropolitan Area resident, in hir 30s, koseki female record to　male record changed.

Requirements

 * 1) 20 years or older
 * 2) Be unmarried
 * 3) Have a minor child
 * 4) Not have gonads or permanent loss of gonad function
 * 5) Part of body which assumes the external genital features of the opposite sex.

4 & 5 correspond roughly to having had SRS.

History of passage
Advances in medicine, for GID, hormone therapy and, SRS use of, mental anguish of persons concerned　reduction of, in gender identity, in all, social adjustment, allow, become possible. However, koseki's sex (SUBJ) .. birth time's physical sex (TOPIC), require's official certificate (OBJ), in social situation, inconvienience (OBJ) produce. For example, outward appearance and gender record (S) in person certificate, problem (OBJ) produce suffrage (OBJ), be able to exercise.

Category:Human rights in Japan Category:Transgender law