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Sex change no cure for torment
Surgery an option but transsexuals still face legal walls
By HIROSHI MATSUBARA Staff writer
(The Japan Times June 20, 2001)
Trans Japanese Seek Recognition
(Gay.com/PlanetOut May 29, 2001)
Japanese Transsexual Battle in Court
(Gay.com UK
May 29, 2001)
Japanese transsexuals sue for recognition
(Advocate.com
May 26-29, 2001)
Transsexuals try registry change
By TARO KARASAKI
(Asahi Shimbun May 25, 2001)
Doctor group plans to lobby govt on
transsexuals' rights
(Daily Yomiuri May 25, 2001)
Six sex-change recipients file for
official recognition
(The Japan Times May
25, 2001)
Japanese transsexuals fight in
court for recognition
By Olivier Fabre
(Reuters / Yahoo! Singapore News
May 24, 2001)
6 transsexuals demand court orders to
register new genders
(Kyodo News May 24, 2001)
Request
to Record New Genders on Family Registers to be Made
(TBS News i May 22, 2001)
JAPAN: TRANSSEXUALS FIGHT TO MAKE THEIR
GENDERS LEGAL
Six Japanese transsexuals have filed a historic lawsuit in a bid
to have their genders legally recognised on the country's family
register.
(Gay.com UK May 9,
2001)
Transsexuals set to file civil lawsuits
(The Japan Times May 6,
2001)
Man undergoes sex-change operation
(The Japan Times
January 31, 2001)
Beginnings of Sex Reassignment
Surgery in Japan
by Takamatsu Ako,
Harashina Takao, Inoue Yoshiharu, Kinoshita Katsuyuki, Ishihara
Osamu, Uchijima Yutaka
(International Journal of Transgenderism,
The Vol. 5, No. 1 Jan. -
Mar., 2001)
Japan
2000
Transsexual Gets Second Shot at School
(Reuters, March 8,
2000)
Heavy and light in minority fiction
(The Japan Times, March 3, 2000)
Transgender writer wins prestigious Akutagawa
Award
(The Tokyo-Weekly, Jan.
15, 2000)
http://www.tokyo-weekly.ne.jp/2000/CUL/CUL20000115-1.shtml
Third legal sex-change operation starts
(The Japan Times,
November 26, 1999)
Man undergoes sex-change operation
(Mainichi Daily News June 26, 1999)
Man undergoes historic sex change
Nation's 1st male-to-female gender-swap surgery takes place in
Saitama
(Daily Yomiuri, June 26, 1999)
T* Meet Feminists in Japan
(PlanetOut October 26, 1998)
http://www.planetout.com/pno/news/article.html?1998/10/26/4
Patient wants sex changed in registry
(The Japan Times
October 24, 1998)
Japan's 1st T* Goes Public
(PlanetOut October 20, 1998)
http://www.planetout.com/pno/news/article.html?1998/10/20/4
Nation's 1st sex change carried out
(The Daily Yomiuri October 17, 1998)
Nation's first legal sex change begins
(The Japan Times
October 17, 1998, 5th (Latest) Edition)
Woman undergoes nation's first legal sex
change surgery
(The Japan Times
October 17, 1998, 1st Edition)
1st approved sex change op begins
(Asahi Evening News October 16, 1998)
Sex change marks first legal operation
(The Japan Times
October 15, 1998)
Dispute puts first sex change on hold
(The Japan Times September 9, 1998)
Unapproved sex change revealed
Woman sought switch but surgery was to halt pain: doctors
(The Japan Times
September 7, 1998)
EDITORIAL (Asahi Shimbun May 14)
Sex-change operation raises natural question
The borderline between men and women is not as clear as many
people think.
It is unclear not only in terms of cultural gender roles but also
biologically.
(Asahi Evening News May
19, 1998)
Man-to-be facing societal, legal woes after
sex change
Tohoku transsexual likely to find difficulty getting married,
receiving social security
BY SATOSHI TAKANO
Mainichi Shimbun
(Mainichi Daily News
May 15, 1998)
FROM THE VERNACULAR PRESS
Sex-change operations
(Sankei Shimbun May 13)
(The Japan Times May
15, 1998)
Japan's First Legal Sex Change
SUMMARY: After more than 10 years of wishing and waiting, a
Japanese transsexual will get treatment at last -- the first of
hundreds who have made requests.
(PlanetOut May 14,
1998)
http://www.planetout.com/pno/news/article.html?1998/05/14/1
http://www.ifge.org/news/1998/june/nws6058d.htm
Japan's first sex change surgery OK'd
(The Japan Times May
13, 1998)
Saitama college OK's 1st sex change
(The Daily Yomiuri May 13, 1998)
First sex change expected by June
(Asahi Evening News May 13, 1998)
A Japanese medical school has approved the
country's first legal sex-change operation, agreeing to turn
30-year-old woman into a man.
(AFP May 13, 1998)
http://www.jewels.clara.net/World.htm#reposted
from Gender Advocacy Internet News
First sex-change surgery in nation slated
this fall
Pair of ladies will become pair of gentlemen
(The Japan Times July
31, 1997)
Transsexuals given hope for change
Committee's approval may put end to secret
sex-change surgery
By KEIJI HIRANO Kyodo News
(The Japan Times June
21, 1997)
Ban on sex change operation lifted
(The Japan Times May 29, 1997)
Sex change operations are approved for the
first time ever
(The Japan Times July 3, 1996)
Doctor seeks OK to perform sex change
(The Japan Times
October 18, 1995)