Blue boy trial

The Blue Boy Trial (ブルーボーイ事件) was a trial regarding the legality of sex reassignment surgery in Japan.

In the mid-20th century, the term "blue boy" was slang for a male transgender or transvestite person[1].

In 1965, a doctor performed sex reassignment surgical operations on three men. The doctor was prosecuted for violating eugenics laws and was found guilty of violating Clause 28 of the Eugenics Protection Law[1]. The law prohibited any surgery deemed unnecessary that caused sterilization[2].

After the trial, sex reassignment surgery were not performed again until 1998[1]. However, the media coverage of the trial increased general knowledge of sex reassignment surgery and the transgender community in Japan[3].

References

  1. 1 2 3 Mark McLelland (2004) From the stage to the clinic: changing transgender identities in post-war Japan, Japan Forum, 16:1, 8-9, DOI: 10.1080/0955580032000189302. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9c80/b865c51694dd432312177110b20bc6f0b3f9.pdf
  2. ↑ "Eugenics in Japan", Wikipedia, 2018-10-06, retrieved 2018-10-13
  3. ↑ "Intersections: The Process of Divergence between 'Men who Love Men' and 'Feminised Men' in Postwar Japanese Media". intersections.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
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