The House of Councilors Judicial Affairs Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to submit a bill to the Diet that would allow people with gender identity disorder to change their officially registered gender in their family registries under certain conditions.
The bill, compiled by a team of lawmakers from the three ruling parties, is expected to be approved by the Diet during the current session, which runs through July 28.
The bill defines someone with GID as having a psychological makeup different from their biological sex and a desire to align with the opposite sex physically and socially.