National Oct 7, 2019
Four medical facilities have provided assisted reproductive treatment for lesbian and transgender couples against the guidelines set by the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a survey showed Sunday. Two medical facilities have used sperm from a third person to artificially inseminate lesbian couples, while ...
Editorials Sep 28, 2019
Lawmakers should start listening to what same-sex couples have to say and thinking about what actions should be taken to address their needs.
World / Social Issues Sep 26, 2019
U.K. transgender man who gave birth to be registered as child's mom, court rules
A transgender man who gave birth but did not want to be registered as the child's mother on the birth certificate lost a legal battle at England's High Court on Wednesday. Freddy McConnell, 32, was born as a woman but has lived as a man ...
National Sep 25, 2019
A same-sex couple from Japan is planning their wedding in Guam, the first U.S. territory to recognize same-sex marriage, officials have said. Tsuyoshi Kumagai and Robert Francis Yocum have been in a relationship for 20 years and plan to have their wedding Wednesday, Pacific Daily ...
National Sep 21, 2019
Private women's university in Miyagi to accept transgender students
A private women's university in Miyagi Prefecture said Saturday it will start accepting from April 2021 students who were assigned male at birth but identify as female, becoming the first private institution in Japan to admit such transgender students. Miyagi Gakuin Women's University in Sendai ...
National Sep 20, 2019
Pop-up venue Pride House opens in Tokyo for LGBT fans ahead of 2019 Rugby World Cup
As the Rugby World Cup got underway Friday, a pop-up venue for LGBT and other sexual minority fans opened in Tokyo, in an initiative organizers hope to build on for next year's Olympics and beyond. The Pride House Tokyo 2019 in the capital's Harajuku district ...
National / Crime & Legal Sep 18, 2019
Woman awarded damages in Japan for same-sex partner's infidelity with sperm donor
A court awarded damages Wednesday to a woman in her 30s who broke up with her same-sex partner because of infidelity, recognizing their common-law partnership despite same-sex marriage not being legal in the country. The Mooka branch of the Utsunomiya District Court in Tochigi Prefecture ...
Asia Pacific / Social Issues Sep 13, 2019
Self-surgery and illegally sourced drugs put Chinese transgender lives at risk
Vulnerable and afraid, a 16-year-old boy sat on the floor of his home in rural eastern China and tried to hack off his genitals with a scalpel, an act of desperation against a body he did not want. Too scared to talk to family in ...
National / Crime & Legal Sep 12, 2019
Gay American married to Japanese national sues government for long-term visa
An American man who married his same-sex Japanese partner in the United States sued the central government Thursday, demanding it grant him long-term resident status. American Andrew High and his Japanese partner, Kohei, who withheld his family name, live together in Tokyo and are also ...
World / Social Issues Sep 9, 2019
More than 2,000 people turned out in Sarajevo Sunday for the city's first Gay Pride march to protest hate crimes suffered by the LGBT community in Bosnia. More than 1,100 officers, including riot police, sealed off the route of the march through the city center ...
Commentary / World Sep 7, 2019
Science hasn't found a 'gay gene' — so what?