Japan’s School Uniform Shift Will Help LGBT Students

Expand A high school student (L) walks towards a group of female students chatting in front of a school in Tokyo November 9, 2006. © 2007 Reuters Some Japanese schools are introducing uniforms designed less around traditional gender stereotypes and more with respecting gender expression by allowing students to choose their attire—a major benefit for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth whose identities and expressions sometimes resist those social norms. In 2015 and 2016, Human Rights Watch interviewed LGBT youth from across Japan. We heard over and over again that they felt…

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