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Title: Gender identity transformed from 'freak' into rights issue
Post by: LostInTime on January 23, 2007, 08:29:42 AM
Post by: LostInTime on January 23, 2007, 08:29:42 AM
Link (http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20070123zg.html)
Up to 70,000 transgender people are estimated to live in Japan, according to various Web sites and blogs, which are often used as a valuable tool in networking transgender support groups.
For example, a 50-year-old woman who goes by "K," used a blog to drum up emotional and financial support over the past few months when she filed a lawsuit against a former employer in Osaka who she claims bullied and discriminated against her.
Up to 70,000 transgender people are estimated to live in Japan, according to various Web sites and blogs, which are often used as a valuable tool in networking transgender support groups.
For example, a 50-year-old woman who goes by "K," used a blog to drum up emotional and financial support over the past few months when she filed a lawsuit against a former employer in Osaka who she claims bullied and discriminated against her.
Title: Re: Gender identity transformed from 'freak' into rights issue
Post by: Hazumu on January 24, 2007, 08:04:06 AM
Post by: Hazumu on January 24, 2007, 08:04:06 AM
up to 1 out of 1820 Japanese is gender disphoric enough to go against a VERY rigid society that has many, many subtle and not-so-subtle ways of 'punishing' nonconformity.
Compare to the American Psychiatric Association, et. al. numbers of 1 in 30,000...
Compare to Lynn Conway's numbers of around 1 in 500 Americans are disphoric enough to call themselves some form of TG and do something about it (Lynn found evidence that supports 1 in 2,500 American males being post-op MtF, leading her to research and come up with the 1 in 500 number.)
I wonder how many of the 70,000 Japanese are post-op? Buddhism/Shintoism believe the body holy and should not be altered (altared?) unnecessarily.
Karen
Compare to the American Psychiatric Association, et. al. numbers of 1 in 30,000...
Compare to Lynn Conway's numbers of around 1 in 500 Americans are disphoric enough to call themselves some form of TG and do something about it (Lynn found evidence that supports 1 in 2,500 American males being post-op MtF, leading her to research and come up with the 1 in 500 number.)
I wonder how many of the 70,000 Japanese are post-op? Buddhism/Shintoism believe the body holy and should not be altered (altared?) unnecessarily.
Karen