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Sexual identity sufferer allowed to register as man
September 13, 2004
Masae Torai, a writer who announced having a sexual identity disorder, was
granted a request to be officially recognized as a male at a Tokyo Family Court
ruling on Friday.
Torai, 40, who worked to enact Japan's "special sexual identity disorder law,"
was delighted at the ruling.
"It's taken a long time to get here. Thank you," Torai said at a news
conference following the ruling. "My lawyer phoned me to tell me that the
family court ruling had come out, and I hugged my mother and cried," he said.
"I didn't think this would happen before I died. I can hardly believe it's
real. I feel like pinching my cheek."
Torai said he wanted to open schools for young people worried about the same
disorder, and called for an increase in specialist doctors.
Torai appeared in a television drama, playing the role of a student with a
sexual identity disorder. His writings include, "Otoko no Koseki o Kudasai"
(Give me a man's family register).
Since the enactment of the sexual identity disorder special law, about 100,000
people nationwide have requested sex changes, according to Torai. (Mainichi
Shimbun, Japan, Sept. 11, 2004)
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