A group of six people who have undergone sex-change operations will file civil suits May 24 seeking to have their new genders recorded on their family registrations, an activist supporting transsexuals said Saturday.
They will be the first lawsuits of their kind since sex-change operations officially began in Japan three years ago.
The suits are intended to secure better social conditions for the transsexuals, who cannot get married and have difficulties finding jobs.
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