LLAN members prepared the English full translation of the Supreme Court decision on the Act on Special Cases in Handling Gender Status for Persons with Gender Identity Disorder.

On October 25, 2023, the Japanese Supreme Court ruled that the requirement in the Act on Special Cases in Handling Gender Status for Persons with Gender Identity Disorder, which mandates individuals to be without reproductive glands or to have permanently lost reproductive function before being allowed to officially change genders, is unconstitutional.

LLAN members prepared an English translation of this decision.

We are grateful to LLAN members from Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Baker & Mckenzie, Cliford Chance, DLA Piper, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Kawai & Partners, Microsoft, Mori Hamada &Matsumoto, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, Nishimura & Asahi, Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett who prepared the translation and summary.