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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (8 children)

So up until very recently, Japan was requiring transgender people to be sterilized? 😬

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Australia still requires it. The state made me get steralised.

Cool and good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They also outlawed csam stuff only a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

CSAM involves actual real life children, the term does not include cartoon child pornography. The whole reason CSAM was coined as a term was to distinguish between the two, such that law enforcement can target their efforts where it matters.

They only outlawed cartoon child pornography a few years ago, but child sexual abuse has basically always been illegal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Ten years ago isn't "a few" lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I stand corrected, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's a click-baity headline. They previously required surgical transition, which results in sterilisation. You couldn't 'just' get a vasectomy or hysterectomy to get legal recognition, you needed new genitals too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Why. Are. Governments. So. Concerned. With. Our. Fucking. Genitals.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Don't worry, I got a plan! I named my junk "climate" & "change" so presumably they will begin worrying about something productive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Nani the fuck!?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

They make cute things so, in general, we don't talk about how completely fucked Japan can be.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Correct, but only if you wanted to change your legal gender. So many transgendered people in Japan have yet to do so to avoid undergoing that procedure.

Hopefully, that's no longer a problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Yeeeeeeep. One of those "no one likes talking about it" things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Believe it or not, but many countries in the West didn't drop that horrific requirement until a decade ago.