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[1] The criteria for determining the gender of an individual
[2] The definition of a transsexual and legal evaluation of the gender of a transsexual
[3] Whether the correction of statement on the gender in the family registry should be permitted for a transsexual (affirmative) and effects of such correction
[4] The case reversing the order of the court below that dismissed an application for correction of a family register and a change of name for lack of legal basis, on the ground that there are sufficient reasons for permitting correction of a family register and a change of name since an applicant is obviously a transsexual who can be recognized as a male in light of the ordinary social norm, in the case where a person, who was recorded as a female on the family register, but had the feeling of inappropriateness about being a female and the sense of belonging to the male as the person grew up, has actually lived as a male for a long time upon coming of age, and had sexual reassignment surgeries, to acquire the outer genitals and the bodily appearance of a male, applied for correction of a family register and a change of name
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