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• LGBT+ (Japan)

  LGBT: One Thousand Trans March in Tokyo in Solidarity with Transgender People

  25 November 2022, by PAK Mi-Hyang

  On November 12, Tokyo Trans March 2022 and related events, organized by Trans Gender Japan (TGJP) , were held to mark Transgender Awareness Week which runs November 13 to 19. This year’s Trans March was the second in Japan. In recent years, Trans March has also been held in Japan’s neighboring (...)

• LGBT+ (Japan)

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

  19 August 2022, 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 (...)