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I'm trying to get my head around the logic of this ruling, and I can't. If I freeze my sperm, have surgery to become female (no, I'm not planning to!), then use that sperm to make a child and raise that child, then surely I'm legally the parent? The Japanese legal system disagrees.
Japanese trans woman denied status as parent of own child – reports
Tokyo high court rules that child born after woman’s legal gender change should not be recognised as her daughter
www.theguardian.com