Japan urged to stop sterilizing transgender people.

People march in the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade celebrating the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Tokyo, Japan on May 7, 2017. (Image: Shizuo Kambayashi—AP)

Human Rights Watch urged Japan on Wednesday to drop its requirement that transgender people be sterilized to have their gender changed on official documents.

A 2004 law states people wishing to register a gender change must have their original reproductive organs removed…