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A Japanese court ruled on Friday that a male-to-female transgender person cannot become the legal parent of a child conceived with frozen sperm before the transition.
The ruling concerns a biologically male transgender woman who had her sperm frozen before undergoing transition surgery. The individual then used the stored sperm to help conceive a child, but a Japanese high court ruled that she could not become the legal guardian of the child conceived that way, according to the Daily Mail. says it can’t.
In Japan, transgender people must undergo transition surgery before they can legally change their gender.
The unidentified individual in this case had two daughters with the same biological woman, one of whom was conceived using frozen sperm after migration.
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The court ruled that only the daughter born before the surgery was legally the person’s child.
Since 2004, Japan has required transgender people to undergo transition surgery and sterilization.
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Japan’s Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the law in 2019.