Number of legal gender identity change petitions filed Japan 2012-2021

Published by Statista Research Department, Sep 12, 2022
In 2021, 750 persons filed a petition to change their gender in Japan. This represented a decrease from 684 applications filed at family courts in the previous year. In Japan, people who want to change their gender on their family register are required to undergo sex reassignment surgery.

Number of new applications for change of legal gender status in Japan from 2012 to 2021

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Release date

August 2022

Region

Japan

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

Figures prior to 2014 are from previous reports.

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