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Students at Shizuoka Prefectural Fujieda Nishi High School show off new school uniforms, including three-quarter length pants and girls trousers, in November 2020. | KYODO
Kyodo Dec 20, 2020
A growing number of Japanese prefectural high schools are relaxing or scrapping gender codes for uniforms to meet the needs of transgender and other sexual-minority students, with around a third of prefectures taking such steps in response to an Education Ministry request five years ago.
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A growing number of Japanese prefectural high schools are relaxing or scrapping gender codes for uniforms to meet the needs of transgender and other sexual-minority students, with around a third of prefectures taking such steps in response to an Education Ministry request five years ago.