Japan is an outlier for Transgender ideology. JAPAN’s Gender Identity Disorder Special Cases (GID) Act only legally recognises “surgically sterilised” and sex changed surgery Transgender people.
On 10 July 2003, the National Diet (Government) of Japan unanimously approved a new law that enables transsexual people to amend their legal sex.
It is called the Gender Identity Disorder Special Cases (GID) Act. The law, effective on 16 July 2004, however, has controversial conditions which demand the applicants be both unmarried and childless.
Since 2018 sex reassignment surgeries are paid for by the Japanese government, who are covered by the Japanese national health insurance as long as patients are not receiving hormone treatment and do not have any other pre-existing conditions.
According to Wikipedia, applicants are required to be at least 20 years old, single, sterile, have no children under 20 (the age of majority in Japan), as well as to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to receive a diagnosis of “Gender Identity Disorder”, also known as gender dysphoria in western countries. Once completed the patient has to only pay 30% of the surgery costs.
According to Human Rights Watch, Japan “sets a really high target” for Transgender people to reach.
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