Ochanomizu University has announced that it will accept transgender students whose family register is male but whose gender is female from 2020.It seems to be the first case at a female university in Japan.Other women's universities such as Nara Women's University and Tsuda College are also considering accepting transgender, and each university is likely to take this opportunity to move toward acceptance.

 According to Ochanomizu University, transgender acceptance was finalized in light of the 2004 mission that "exists as a place of sincere dream for all women who are willing to learn."

 Along with this, the application qualification of the school rules will be changed to "female with family register or gender identity".Until now, the school rules only stipulated that they were girls, but in fact they were limited to women on the family register.In the future, we will continue to make preparations such as equipment maintenance for the start of acceptance, and will start accepting from undergraduate and graduate students in 2020.We also accept applicants who have a female family register and a male gender identity.We will consider how to confirm the gender identity of the mind in the future.

 Ochanomizu University received an inquiry about admission in 2016 from a person who has a gender identity, so from 2017, a working group was set up on campus to consider how to deal with it.

 In the United States, women's universities around the world have decided to accept transgender one after another since 2014.In Japan, in 2017, the Science Council of Japan Law Committee announced a proposal that "if an MtF (a person who has transitioned from a man to a woman) cannot go on to a women's college, it would be an infringement of his right to learn."

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