The Human Rights Watch has urged Japan to revise a law that requires transgender people to be surgically sterilised if they want legal recognition.
Lawyers and supporters of victims of forced sterilisation under a now-defunct eugenics law, carry a banner saying"Sterilisation under the eugenics law."
Under rules introduced in 2004, transgender people who wish to change their official documents must appeal to a family court and meet a set of strict criteria.Applicants are required to be without reproductive capacity, effectively requiring most people to be sterilised to meet the criteria. "Japan should uphold the rights of transgender people and stop forcing them to undergo surgery to be legally recognised," said Kanae Doi, Japan director at Human Rights Watch.
The statement accompanies a report by the rights group which includes interviews with 48 transgender people, as well as with lawyers, health providers, and other experts on the issue.It criticises the law as based on a"pejorative notion that a transgender identity is a mental health condition" and criticises the requirement that transgender people"undergo lengthy, expensive, invasive and irreversible medical procedures".
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