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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