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GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER

JAPAN / Society
Nov 30, 2017
Proposed rule change on coverage of sex reassignment surgery boon to GID sufferers in Japan, but concerns linger
The health ministry's proposed rule change to allow public health insurance coverage of sex reassignment surgery for people with gender identity disorder (GID) offers those who face steep surgery costs a reason to cheer.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Nov 29, 2017
Health ministry proposes public insurance coverage for sex reassignment surgery
The health ministry proposed a rule change Wednesday to begin allowing public health insurance to cover sex reassignment surgery for people with gender identity disorder, or GID, from April.
JAPAN / Society
Jun 20, 2016
Transgender employee to sue after being forced to come out at work
A transgender woman who was allegedly forced to divulge her gender dysphoria at work plans to sue an affiliate of beverage maker Yakult Honsha over the ordeal.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 20, 2016
First GID doctors certified in Japan
The Japanese Society of Gender Identity Disorder certified its first group of GID specialist doctors to ensure patients receive proper medical treatment.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 7, 2015
Justice Ministry instructs female prison staff to handle male-to-female sex reassignment inmates
The Justice Ministry has issued a notice to prisons around the country to have inmates who have undergone male-to-female sex reassignment surgeries handled by female staffers, regardless of their legal gender status, it was learned Wednesday.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 22, 2015
GID certification system proposed for doctors
The Japanese Society of Gender Identity Disorder plans to launch doctor certification system for GID specialists and get gender reassignment surgery covered by national health insurance.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 9, 2014
Sex change plaintiff wins damages over golf course snub
A businesswoman in Shizuoka Prefecture who changed her registered sex from male to female due to gender identity disorder has won a damages suit with a golf course operator that refused her membership based on the sex change.
EDITORIALS
Jun 21, 2014
Struggling with gender identity
The education ministry's first-ever survey on gender identity disorder reports a minimum of 606 children across the country who deserve, and greatly need, attention and care.
JAPAN / Society
Jun 13, 2014
Over 600 school students have GID, pioneering survey finds
In the first survey of its kind, at least 606 students are recognized as having gender identity disorder, the education ministry reveals.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 23, 2013
NHK discusses gender with a fresh openness
Two weeks ago, the nightly series "Heart Net TV," which is broadcast on NHK's educational channel, repeated a program about a 35-year-old Japanese man who married a 70-year-old Dutch man in the Netherlands. The series dedicates several programs a month to sexual minorities, and there was a sidelight at the end of the story about a local newspaper that covered the wedding. Same sex marriage has been legal in the Netherlands for almost two decades, so local media attention was about the age difference — and the NHK crew that was covering it. The Dutch thought it interesting that such a story would be considered news in Japan, which they had assumed was sexually open.
JAPAN
May 8, 2013
Pension agency assigned special ID numbers to people with gender identity disorder
The Japan Pension Service reportedly assigned a set of fixed digits to the basic pension numbers of people with gender identity disorder last year.

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