logo
welcome
Guardian

Guardian

Japan court lets transgender man change official status without sterilisation in legal first

Guardian
Summary
Nutrition label

71% Informative

Tacaquito Usui , 50 , could get the gender listed for him in his family registry updated to male.

His original application for revision was rejected five years ago .

Japan ’s supreme court ruled in October that a provision of a 20-year-old law that made the removal of reproductive organs a precondition for legal recognition of gender changes was unconstitutional.

VR Score

80

Informative language

85

Neutral language

48

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

60

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

External references

no external sources

Source diversity

no sources

Affiliate links

no affiliate links