Source: japantimes.co.jp<\/p>\n
AMAGASAKI, HYOGO PREF. \u2013\u00a0<\/span>A 52-year-old in Hyogo Prefecture has filed a claim challenging the constitutionality of a law that blocks people with children who are minors from changing their sex in the official family registry system maintained by Japanese authorities.<\/p>\n In the claim, filed Tuesday with the Amagasaki branch of the Kobe Family Court, a contract worker with an eight-year-old daughter sought to change her listed sex in the family register from male to female.<\/p>\n The woman has already relinquished custody of the girl. She had sex reassignment surgery this year.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s unreasonable that I can\u2019t change my sex (in the family register) because of my child,\u201d the woman said at a news conference in Amagasaki after filing the claim.<\/p>\n A provision of the special law on gender identity disorder states that in order to change their sex on the family registry, an individual must have no child that is still a minor.<\/p>\n The woman claims that the law provision violates Article 14 of the Constitution, which ensures legal equality for all, and Article 13, which guarantees everyone\u2019s right to pursue happiness.<\/p>\n According to the woman\u2019s lawyer, Shun Nakaoka, such a condition for changing an individual\u2019s listed sex is rarely seen in other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2509,132,434,166,564,796],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sex-reassignment","tag-change-sex","tag-japan","tag-sex-reassignment","tag-surgery","tag-transgender","tag-woman"],"yoast_head":"\n