Category: History
Forced Sterilization in Japan: Transgender and Disabled Face Chemical Castration
Until 1996, the Japanese government forcibly sterilized people with vision problems, hearing problems, intellectual disabilities, mental illnesses, and hereditary diseases. Today, transgender people face forced sterilization if they want to be legally recognized as their chosen gender. The focus of the original 1948 eugenics law isn’t the same as the current law forcing transgender people…