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A Japanese region has made it illegal to out someone as LGBT+". Gay Star News. 10 June 2020. Archived from the original on 18 August 2021 . Retrieved 10 June 2020. In June 2019, the CDP added introducing legislation aimed at ending discrimination against the LGBT community and legalising same-sex marriage to their party platforms ahead of the 2019 Japanese House of Councillors election. [127]

This series is not afraid to show sensitive subjects like abortion, bully, as well as same-sex couples and it's response in form of homophobia. Transit Girls is a captivating Japanese drama series that beautifully explores the complexities of young love and self-discovery through the lens of a blossoming lesbian relationship. The 8-episode series, which first aired in 2015, follows the lives of Sayuri and Yui, two high school girls who become stepsisters after their respective parents marry each other. In March 2017, Tomoya Hosoda was elected to the Iruma Assembly, in the prefecture of Saitama. Hosoda is believed to be the first openly transgender man elected to public office in the world. [123]Victory for Transgender Rights in Japan | Human Rights Watch". 25 October 2023 . Retrieved 26 October 2023. Since 2004; under certain restrictions: must undergo surgery, be unmarried, and have no children under 18)

McCurry, Justin (5 November 2015). "Same-sex couple receives Japan's first 'partnership' certificate". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 12 November 2019. In January 2018, after a high-profile incident in 2015 in which a gay student at Hitotsubashi University died by suicide after being outed against his will, the city of Kunitachi passed an "anti-outing" ordinance to promote understanding of LGBT people. [64] Mie Prefecture passed a similar "anti-outing" law in March 2021. [76] [77] LGBT Understanding and Enhancement Act [ edit ] No national legal recognition of same-sex relationships, some localities offer partnership certificates

In 2018, U.S. national and Aoyama Gakuin University lecturer Elin McCready changed her legal gender to female in the United States. After the change, municipal offices in the Meguro and Ota wards of Tokyo refused to recognize it, citing her subsisting marriage to Midori Morita-McCready, a Japanese national - which the legal gender recognition would make a same-sex marriage. This led them to pursue a lawsuit against the local and central governments. Their attorney, Toshimasa Yamashita, said that following the precedent set in the 2018 Sapporo court case on same-sex marriage, this refusal was unconstitutional. [89] [90] Other developments [ edit ] Sekawa, Kaori (2 May 2016). "尾木ママ「学校で必ずLGBTを教えています」 東京レインボープライド2016開幕". Huffpost Japan . Retrieved 7 January 2020. France-Presse, Agence. "Japan raises age of consent from 13 to 16 in reform of sex crimes law". The Guardian . Retrieved 7 November 2023. Japan's ruling party accused of violating Olympic charter over LGBT rights". The Guardian. 24 May 2021 . Retrieved 24 May 2021. Steger, Isabella (24 June 2019). "For the first time, same-sex couples will be recognized by a Japanese prefecture". Quartz.

At the 2016 House of Councillors election, the conservative governing LDP included in its manifesto, that "same-sex marriage is incompatible with the Constitution". [120] However, it also included "promoting understanding of sexual diversity" in its platform, a move that would have been "unthinkable" in earlier times and that lawmaker Gaku Hashimoto attributed in part to burnishing the country's international image in advance of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [121] In 2019, former Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said she was unsure whether she would be able to introduce new legislation seeking greater tolerance of same-sex relationships amid opposition from her LDP colleagues. While Inada announced she wishes to "promote understanding" of LGBT people, she stated she is not trying to get Japan to legalize same-sex marriage or ban discrimination against LGBT citizens. Some LDP members have made controversial statements, such as Katsuei Hirasawa who argued in a speech in February 2019 that the "nation would collapse" if everyone were gay. Another ruling party lawmaker, Mio Sugita, published a magazine article in 2018 describing same-sex couples as "unproductive" because they do not have children. [122] Daniel Reynolds (23 July 2019). "Japan's First Out Gay Lawmaker Vows Same-Sex Marriage 'Will Happen' ". The Advocate.

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Japan's Only Openly Gay Lawmaker Says Same-Sex Marriage Will Take Years". Bloomberg. 8 December 2017. Even though surgery is required as a condition to change one's registered gender in the Japanese courts, this only applies to Japanese nationals. Foreign nationals change their registered gender with the country of their nationality, then reporting the change to the Immigration Services Agency to be reflected on their residence card. This conflict of laws can lead to bureaucratic breakdown. In January 2019, trans woman Maria Akasaka became a member of the Kameoka City Assembly, in Kyoto Prefecture. [125] In April 2019, another trans woman, Ayako Fuchigami, won a seat on the Hokkaido Prefectural Assembly representing Sapporo's Higashi-ku ward. She became the first openly transgender person to hold a prefectural assembly position in Japan. [126] Gay politician wins Upper House seat with LGBT support". The Asahi Shimbun. 22 July 2019. Archived from the original on 14 February 2020 . Retrieved 25 July 2019. In conclusion, everything is precisely as it should be. And seriously, Millennials, don’t be embarrassed of your search terms. For what it’s worth, all porn search terms are mortifying. If your porn search history were ever exposed, it would be at least as bad as your Google search history. What does a non-embarrassing porn search history even look like? Like this, maybe:

a b "Proposed Japanese Fertility Law Discriminates Against Lesbians, Single Women". 6 December 2022. Andrew Potts (11 September 2013). "Osaka district becomes first Japanese government area to support LGBT inclusion". Gay Star News. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019 . Retrieved 11 September 2013. In April 2017, Osaka officially recognised a same-sex couple as foster parents, making it the first such case in Japan. [50] Some jurisdictions offer "partnership certificates" with limited recognition; symbolic certificates pending in several jurisdictions)

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In 1990, the group OCCUR (Japan Association for the Lesbian and Gay Movement) [73] won a court case against a Tokyo government policy that barred gay and lesbian youth from using the "Metropolitan House for Youth". While the court ruling does not seem to have extended to other areas of government-sponsored discrimination, it is cited by the courts as a civil rights case. [63]