Transgender woman in Japan denied parental rights to her own child

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A trans woman in Japan was denied legal rights to her own daughter after an appeal to the nation’s highest court.

According to Japan Times, the unidentified couple, a cisgender woman and a transgender woman, conceived their second daughter with sperm preserved before the transgender partner’s medical transition.

While Japanese law recognizes the trans woman’s parental rights to her first child, born before transition, the country’s Supreme Court held it does not recognize her rights to the second, born after transition. No further details were immediately available.

Gender transition has been legally accepted in the island nation since 2004, but the law imposes strict requirements to change a gender marker, including psychiatric evaluation and removal of the sex organs, including sterilization.

According to reports, the transgender partner was…

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