Japan’s parliament elects first female prime minister. She’s against LGBTQ+...

[Jessica_Rose]

Japan's parliament elects first female prime minister. She's against LGBTQ+ rights.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/japans-parliament-elects-first-female-prime-minister-shes-against-lgbtq-rights/ 🔗

Greg Owen (26 Oct 2025)

Japan's parliament on Tuesday elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister, ending a three-month power struggle after disastrous election losses in July for the governing Liberal Democratic Party.

While Takaichi breaks a glass ceiling for women in Japan as the country's first female head of government, she is well known for her hostility to women's rights, gender equality, and diversity.

Takaichi opposes same-sex marriage, separate surnames for married couples, and female succession for Japan's imperial family.

While Japan has made slow but steady progress in the fight for marriage equality over the last decade, those gains are likely to stop while Takaichi is in office.

Serving as former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Minister of State for Economic Security in 2023, Takaichi strayed from his support for an "LGBT Awareness Promotion Bill" in Parliament, saying "there are still points at issue."

While she said at the time, "There should be no prejudice against sexual orientation or gender identity," Takaichi registered her opposition to the same bill in her run for the LDP presidential election in 2021, claiming the legislation's definition of discrimination was vague.

[Lori Dee]

They elected a TERF?