A woman who was born as a male and changed her family register was contested over whether she could recognize her two daughters as fathers, who were born using sperm that had been cryopreserved before undergoing gender reassignment surgery. The Tokyo High Court ruled that only the eldest daughter, who was born before the gender change, was allowed to have a legal parent-child relationship.
A woman in her 40s who was diagnosed with gender identity disorder and changed her gender on her family register four years ago used her own sperm that had been cryopreserved before undergoing gender reassignment surgery to have sex with her partner. I gave birth to a daughter.
Her partner's woman is legally recognized as the child's mother by giving birth, but the woman who donated her sperm has refused to accept the child's acknowledgment as her father. I was asking you to let me know.
In February, the Tokyo Family Court in the first instance dismissed the complaint, saying, ``In the current legal system, there is no basis for legally recognizing a parent-child relationship.''
In the second trial on the 19th, presiding judge Toshikazu Kino of the Tokyo High Court handed down a ruling recognizing the legal parent-child relationship for the eldest daughter who was born before the gender change, contrary to the first trial.
On the other hand, regarding the second daughter born after the gender change, the appeal was dismissed following the first trial.