Japan's View On Transgender

When the WHO adopts the new edition in 2018, transgender people will no longer be branded as mentally ill. But there is little appetite for this fight in Japan, where doctors have been responsible for transforming transgender people from eccentrics on the margins of society to fully fledged citizens. Even leading transgender rights activists in Japan want the doctors to stay in control, fearing that if individuals are given the power to define their own gender, the entire system will collapse.