Tomoya Hosoda
Tomoya Hosoda | |
|---|---|
| Member of Iruma, Saitama City Council | |
| In office 30 March 2017 – 29 March 2023 | |
| Assumed office 17 March 2025 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 14, 1991 |
Tomoya Hosoda (細田 智也, Hosoda Tomoya; born 14 November 1991[1]) is a Japanese politician who, on 17 March 2017, became the first transgender man politician to be elected to office when he was elected to the city council of Iruma, Saitama.[2][3]He was re-elected on March 17, 2025.[4]
He underwent gender confirmation surgery in 2015 at the age of 23.[5][6][a] After graduating from Teikyo University, he had worked as medical technologist at a hospital in Shizuoka before he was elected.[6][1]
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- ^ a b "トランスジェンダー公表し当選 入間市議･細田智也さん初の一般質問「ひるまず堂々と」" (in Japanese). AERA dot.. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
- ^ "Japan becomes first country in the world to elect transgender man to a public office". The Independent. 18 March 2017.
- ^ a b Motoko Rich (May 19, 2017). "Japanese Transgender Politician Is Showing 'I Exist Here'". The New York Times. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ "入間市議選挙開票結果 投票率最低３４・０９％". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). 17 March 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
- ^ "Transgender Politician Wins Iruma City Council Election". stonewalljapan.org. 17 March 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
- ^ a b c "「自分が大人になる未来が想像できなかった。 子どもたちには同じ思いをさせたくない」入間市議会議員 世界初のFtMトランスジェンダー議員 細田智也インタヴュー" (in Japanese). Democratic Party. Archived from the original on 2017-09-13. Retrieved 2017-09-14.