For how long? In Japan, legally recognised, Transgender people sterilize. Human Rights Watch sounds the Alarm. The laws need to be changed urgently.
More than 7000 people took part in the LGBT Parade in may of last year in Tokyo
The legal situation is clear: Should Transgender people, people whose gender identity from the sex deviates were born with you, to be sterilized before they can be legally recognised? To be answered at the beginning of the year, the Japanese constitutional court on this question with a clear Yes. The court thus rejected the claim of Takakito Usui.
Takakito Usui, was born as a woman, but since his birth as a man feels, seeks legal recognition as a man. This is in Japan, although theoretically possible, but only under strict conditions. Usui should have, for example, sticks, among other things, its eggs, and the uterus removed. The 43-Year-old felt in his personality rights have been violated, felt the scheme as unconstitutional. The judge disagreed with his view.
Takakito Usui is fighting to be in his home country of Japan as a Transgender recognized
The Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in Japan, Kanae Doi, is appalled by the ruling: “Japan should respect the rights of Transgender people and to finally stop, that people must undergo painful treatments in order to be before the law officially recognized.” The law will consider “gender identity as a mental illness”. Doi: “This law should be immediately revised.”
Violation of human rights
The human rights organization is with your Protest is not alone. A whole range of international institutions had criticized in recent years, the Japanese legislation. In 2013, the former UN-special Rapporteur on torture, the Argentine Juan Ernesto Méndez, Japan. Transgender persons would have to drag in Japan, “often against their will, sterilizations”. The fact that such an intervention was a precondition to legal recognition was “a clear violation of universal human rights”. Governments should ban the rules without any If and But.
Dealing with Transgender persons has changed in the past few years. The world health organization (WHO), underscore the theme of “gender identity” only recently, in the field of “mental illness”. The “American Psychological Association” had done this already in the year 2012.
Five years later, in 2017, had also called on the European court of human rights in all 47 countries in its jurisdiction, to change the sterilization laws of this kind. The call had an effect: Norway, France and Sweden have abolished similar sterilization laws in the meantime.
In the world, like here in Pakistan by the end of 2013, demonstrate people, for TRANS-gender rights
Hope in Japan?
In view of these changes and the growing pressure it seems, Japan is slowly rethinking emerge. However, only at second glance. So two of the four judges, the Takakito Usuis had rejected the claim, having recognized that the laws in question would have to be changed. “The Suffering that Transgender people are subjected to, must also oppose the society as a Whole. In a society in which diversity is lived, it must be the theme.”
Human-Rights-Director Kanae Doi interprets this as a political Action: “The constitutional court has expressed his concerns about the legal Situation of Transgender people. Now the government must review its legislation and international human rights standards and medical Standards.”
The chances that this is implemented in the act, are not bad. Only in the past year, the government of Metropolitan Tokyo, the host of the Olympic games in the year 2020, a law was passed had not expected to be at a disadvantage, according to the “citizens because of gender identity or sexual orientation.” In Parallel, Japan, agreed at the United Nations in two resolutions for the termination and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.