Aya Kamikawa

Aya Kamikawa

“I would never want to get in the way of someone using their gender to express who they are in the media. But I question the motivations of the people who are simply laughing at them, without any second thought.”

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About Her

Ethnicity: Japanese

Birthday: January 25, 1968

Born in: Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Aya Kamikawa is a municipal official, the first openly transgender person to seek or win elected office in Japan. She was elected in April 2003.Kamikawa, then a 35-year-old writer, submitted her election application papers with a blank space for "sex.”

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