00:00The National Human Rights Commission is urging the Defense Ministry to update its physical standards,
00:05saying it endangers transgender and intersex recruits' safety.
00:09The ministry's proposal in December to change compulsory service standards
00:13included changes such as raising the maximum body weight
00:17and no longer accepting certain medical exemptions.
00:20The reforms also touched on gender and biological sex
00:24by requiring intersex or trans recruits to complete alternative service.
00:28The commission said that these recruits had almost no impact on conscript exemption rates.
00:34It added that the government should conduct impact assessments
00:37before putting individuals in harm's way.
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