Japanese trans woman denied status as parent of own child
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.
The trans woman, who was assigned male at birth, had two daughters with her female partner using sperm preserved before her transition. While the High Court affirmed parental status for the child born before transition, it declined to go further.
Mai Ishijima is a guest researcher in Family and Transgender Law in Japan at Mainz University in Germany. She told Newsday: 鈥淚t is a problem that the second child cannot have the possibility to have two legal parents鈥or this child鈥檚 interests, there must be a solution.鈥�
(Picture: Hands hold paper family on LGBTQ rainbow flag background. Credit: Getty Images.)
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