Top Court Rejects Transsexual's Request to Alter Registry
[TOKYO] - The Supreme Court has rejected a request filed by a female-born transsexual to allow him to alter his gender in his official family registry, upholding lower court rulings, sources close the plaintiff said Sunday.
The plaintiff in his 30s was born a female but suffered from gender identity disorder (GID) and underwent a sex-change operation at Saitama Medical School, the first medical facility in Japan to offer the procedure.
