Justice Ministry says children born to 'sex-change' father should be treated as illegitimate
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20100111p2a00m0na012000c.htmlThe Justice Ministry is instructing local governments to treat any child born to a father who has changed his gender from female and his wife as a child born out of wedlock, it has emerged.
While the ministry claims that it has based its position on the fact that it is biologically impossible for a man who has changed his gender from female to have his own child with a woman, its handling of the matter has drawn protests.
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City's birth challenge linked to sex change
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100111a2.htmlKOBE (Kyodo) A Hyogo Prefecture man who has legally changed his sexual status said Sunday that the city where he lives told him to register his son, who was born through artificial insemination, as an illegitimate child.
Children born through artificial insemination by donors are ordinarily accepted as legitimate, experts say, because municipal offices do not necessarily know the details of a particular birth.
But in the man's case, the municipal office knew he had changed his sex in his family registration record, apparently leading it to reject the legitimacy of his son, they said.
