Sex-change husband to file suit to register son as legitimate child
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KOBE (Kyodo) -- A 29-year-old man, who was born a woman but has legally changed his sexual status due to gender identity disorder, plans to file a lawsuit demanding that the government acknowledge his son born by artificial insemination as his legitimate child, he told Kyodo News Thursday.
"I want (the country) to recognize him as our child," the man, who resides in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, said. "I have decided to file a suit in Tokyo so that the Justice Ministry will take this issue seriously."
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Friday, Jan. 27, 2012
Spouse with GID to sue for recognition as boy's legal father
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KOBE — A 2-year-old boy born via artificial insemination is in family registry limbo, having been fathered by the younger brother of a gender identity disorder patient who acquired legal status as a male and who is now waging a battle to gain recognition as the child's legitimate father.
The 29-year-old GID parent, who lives in Osaka and is married to the woman who gave birth to the boy, did not undergo a sex-change operation but due to the medical diagnosis was able to be registered as male under a special 2004 law. The parent threatened Thursday to file a suit to force the government to officially recognize the son.