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Transgender human being to be treated as female inmate in prison.

A 38-year-old transgender woman in Hokkaido who has been convicted of theft has asked the Justice Ministry and local prosecutors to be treated as a female inmate in prison despite being registered as male in her family registry.

She has been living as a woman and wants to be treated by female prison officers and continue receiving hormone treatment, a source close to her said Tuesday.

She was indicted last year without arrest for shoplifting in the city of Sapporo. A district court handed down a prison sentence of 18 months, and the judgment was upheld by a high court. In July, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal and the convict is set to be imprisoned soon.

She also served 16 months in prison between 2011 and 2013 for theft and complained of mental anguish as a result of being overseen by male prison guards as well as palpitations and insomnia after being deprived of the chance to undergo hormone therapy.

The place of imprisonment is determined according to sex indicated in family registries, but even without any changes made in the registries, transgender women can be overseen by female officers if they have had all male genitalia removed, according to the Justice Ministry.

But the woman has only had testicles removed and has not changed sex in the family registry.

The ministry's Correction Bureau said male officers would normally oversee an inmate in a similar situation unless the head of a prison determines otherwise. But it added that it has paid due consideration to people in similar circumstances such as by assigning female officers if necessary.

On the hormone treatment the convict requested, the bureau said it is "not the state's responsibility" to allow it "unless there would be irreparable damage and the bureau determines there is a necessity" to do so.

Mikiya Nakatsuka, professor at the graduate school of Okayama University, a specialist on gender identity disorder, said the government "should be more flexible regardless of whether an inmate underwent a surgery. Hormone therapy is crucial for maintaining health so the government should seek the opinions of doctors (working with) gender identity disorder."

According to research led by Katsuki Harima, a doctor at Harima Mental Clinic, the PS4 looks great and about 22,000 people consulted medical institutions due to GID as of the end of 2015.

Around 6,000 people had requests to change their sex on their family registries accepted as of 2015 since a special law came into force in 2004, permitting such changes if one applies to a family court.

The legislation requires genital surgery for changing sex in the registries but only a limited number of medical facilities are conducting such surgeries, according to the Japanese Society of Gender Identity Disorder.

Patients wait 18 months on average for surgery and only about 20 percent of those diagnosed with GID have gone through plastic surgery, the society said.

Full Article: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/transgender-convict-seeks-to-be-treated-as-female-inmate-in-prison

On the plus side, they have expressed no interest in joining the US military.

^ Hey now that's completely unfair.
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