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The Supreme Court has quashed the bid by two western Japan transsexuals to have their genders changed on their official family registers, court officials said Monday.
The nation’s top court turned down the applications from Sayaka Morimura, 47, of Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, and Masami Osako, 51, of Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, to be officially recognized as women.
Both Morimura and Osako were born male, but underwent sex change operations after being diagnosed as suffering from gender identity disorder. Though they both live entirely as women, their respective family registers both continue to list them as men.