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• LGBT+ (Japan)

  Japanese trans woman denied status as parent of own child – reports

  19 August, by Reuters

  Tokyo high court rules that child born after woman’s legal gender change should not be recognised as her daughter
  A Japanese court has ruled that a child born after a transgender woman went through her surgical and legal transition should not be recognised legally as her child, according to (...)

• LGBT+ (Japan)

  Japanese MP calls LGBT community ’unproductive’

  3 August 2018, by McCURRY Justin

  Latest controversial statement by Mio Sugita, an ally of PM Shinzō Abe, sparks furore
  Japan’s governing party has belatedly distanced itself from an MP who described members of the LGBT community as “unproductive” because they cannot have children.
  Mio Sugita, a lower house member of the Liberal (...)