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

Tokyo high court rules that child born after woman’s legal gender change should not be recognised as her daughter

Flags at a rainbow Pride parade in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. Japan remains the only G7 country not to recognise same-sex marriage. Photograph: Pacific Press Media Production Corp./Alamy

Reuters

Fri 19 Aug 2022 13.52 BST

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 local media.