Not Quite

But close enough, in Japan trans people need to be sterilized to transition however this headline is not quite true, yes it is true but…

It’s Not Just Japan. Many U.S. States Require Transgender People Get Sterilized
Many transgender people in the United States must undergo sterilizing medical procedures if they want birth certificates and driver’s licenses that reflect their gender.
The Daily Beast
By Samantha Allen
March 22, 2019

More outrageous than The Economist asking in a tweet, “Should transgender people be sterilized before they are recognized?”—more outrageous still than Japan continuing to require transgender people be sterilized to have their gender identity legally recognized—is the fact that sterilization requirements for transgender people are not restricted to one country.

This week may have been the first you heard about transgender sterilization.

After Japan’s Supreme Court ruled earlier this year in defense of the country’s 2003 law requiring transgender people to have their gonads removed or rendered non-functional before being allowed to legally change their gender, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch released a groundbreaking report on the impacts of the outdated law.

Okay, for trans women if you are having Gender Confirming Surgery (GCS) a side effect is you’re going to be sterilized; for trans men top surgery doesn’t require sterilization and for their bottom surgery from what I understand doesn’t require sterilization.

But the transgender sterilization issue is much broader than any one country or tweet. In fact, many transgender people in the United States must undergo sterilizing medical procedures if they want birth certificates and driver’s licenses that reflect their gender.

Yes, for trans people in states like Georgia that require surgery…

Georgia will amend the sex on a birth certificate "upon receipt of a certified copy of a court order indicating the sex of an individual born in this state has been changed by surgical procedure and that such individual's name has been changed." Ga. Code Ann. § 31-10-23(e). Such birth certificates will be issued as new and not marked as amended.

So for trans women they need GCS and for trans men just having “top surgery” only might qualify for changing their birth certificate.

So I see this headline a little misleading because the state don’t come right out that sterilization is required, just calls for “surgical procedure” and they don’t spell out those procedures.

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Not quite, judge throws the brake on Trump’s military edict.

Federal judge rebukes Trump & says he can’t institute the trans military ban after all
LGBTQ Nation
By Alex Bollinger
March 20, 2019

A federal judge just rebuked the Trump administration for saying that it would implement its transgender military ban, arguing that one of the injunctions against the ban in still in place.

District court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who is hearing the Doe v. Trump challenge to the ban, issued a notice that her injunction, which prevents the military from implementing a ban on transgender servicemembers, is still in place.

There are four federal cases against the transgender military ban, and all of them had issued injunctions against the ban as of last year.

In January, an appeals court overturned Kollar-Kotelly’s injunction against the ban.

Several weeks later, the Supreme Court overturned two others. The fourth was lifted earlier this month.

The Justice Department filed a notice in the cases saying that the military would begin to implement the ban, and the Defense Department issued a memo that said that transgender people would no longer be allowed to sign up for the military starting on April 12, 2019. People already in the military would also be prohibited from transitioning.

The Justice Department is chomping at the bit to start their bigoted program of kicking out trans people out of the military.

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While we are on the military…

Not quite true testimony,

Former military chiefs accuse Pentagon of deceiving Congress about transgender troops
LGBTQ Nation
By Bil Browning
March 6, 2019

The former secretaries of the Air Force, Army and Navy, along with instructors at the Air Force and Coast Guard academies, are accusing the Pentagon of deceiving Congress about the ability of transgender people to serve in the military.

The former military leaders say Department of Defense officials ignored internal data to make the claim that medical treatment for trans troops keeps them out of service for longer than other personnel.

“In seeking to justify President Trump’s wrong-headed ban on transgender service members at a congressional hearing last week, Defense Department officials made misleading claims,” Deborah Lee James, Ray Mabus and Eric Fanning, who ran the Air Force, Navy, and Army respectively, said in a statement.

“Under inclusive policy that is currently in effect, transgender service members must meet exactly the same fitness and deployability standards as everybody else, but the witnesses ignored data confirming the success of that policy.”
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A second memo written by five professors from top military academies details numerous “deceptive, erroneous and false assertions” given by Pentagon officials during testimony.

“Both the written and verbal testimony introduced deceptive, erroneous, and false assertions about the ostensible risk that gender dysphoria poses to readiness and deployment and about standards that [the Department of Defense] plans to apply to transgender service members,” they write.

It seems like one of the requirements to be in the Trump administration is that you have to be a good liar.