Last month, several transsexuals petitioned some 20 Diet members for legal changes that would allow people who have undergone sex-change operations to switch their gender on official registries.
Their encounters with those who have Gender Identity Disorder, as it is called in the medical community, apparently moved the lawmakers.
Several promised to launch intraparty study groups on the problems transsexuals face in society.
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