Japan’s Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision, ruling against a government agency that had barred a transgender employee from using the women’s bathroom, according to public broadcaster NHK.
The decision was the top court’s first ruling involving the rights of sexual minorities in the workplace, NHK reported. The plaintiff is an employee in her 50s, working at Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry . She was assigned a male gender at birth but started living as a woman from around 2008, except in the workplace, according to NHK. In 2009, she told her supervisor that she wanted to identify as a woman at work and requested permission to use the women’s bathroom, NHK reported.
In an email to CNN on Tuesday, METI said it was aware that there was a Supreme Court ruling Tuesday regarding the use of women’s bathrooms by a transgender METI employee. The ministry will “take further action in consultation with the relevant ministries and agencies after carefully examining the Supreme Court’s ruling,” it said in the statement, adding that it will “continue to make every effort to respect the diversity of its employees.
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