Japan Times:進步國家的人權
日本文部省（教育部）發布劃時代通告給中小學校，籲請各校留意跨性別者的需求，譬如准許他們穿自己認定的男或女生制服，也准許他們選擇自己認定的性別廁所。該通告還提醒，屬於性別少數族群的LGBT應該獲得更大包容。
The education ministry issued a landmark notice on Thursday, urging local education boards to ensure that schools do more to cater to children who believe they were born the wrong gender.
The move, which comes amid rising sensitivity toward sexual minorities by Japanese society and officialdom, will oblige schools to pay greater attention to the needs of transgender students. The measures include, for example, paying heed to students’ gender identity as much as possible by allowing them to use whichever bathroom or locker room they prefer.
It also says other sexual minority students — gays, lesbians, and bisexuals — deserve greater accommodation, the first such notice of its kind.
Some schools have allowed transgender children to wear the uniform of the gender they identify as, but the latest ministry notice will encourage all schools to do so — from elementary level to high school.
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