衆議院総選挙:FtMTGの猿田玲さん、正式に立候補 / Trans Man Saruta Runs for House of Representatives
updated 2005/09/10
A transsexual man Rei Saruta, 27, runs for Japan's House of Representatives (Lower House) as the Social Democratic Party's candidate for a single-seat constituency of District 3 of Ibaraki, about 50 kilometers north-east of Tokyo. He is also one of the three candidates on the 1st place of the SDP's proportional representation list of the North Kanto block, which comprises 4 prefectures of Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gumma and Saitama.
If Mr. Saruta wins the general election on September 11, he will become the world's second transsexual MP after Ms. Georgina Beyer of New Zealand.