Prejudice and discrimination against sexual minorities has now been recognized as a human rights issue in Japan, but it took a long time to make it the official line. Educational policy studies in Japan have also still not paid sufficient attention to it, but we canʼt avoid being aware of the importance of these issues with deep reflection. Recently, MEXT has issued some circulars regarding special care for LGBT schoolchildren and students. These changing attitudes toward LGBT students are so important to guarantee the rights of sexual minorities and support their safe growth. In consideration of the educational policy and issues surrounding sexual minorities, we should also note that behind these changes there have been considerable efforts, researches and policy proposals by sexual minorities themselves and their supporters. By focusing on their individual experience, we may find complex structure of intertwined issues which include sexuality, gender, social scale, physical disability, mental disorder, religious, regional characteristics, etc. In order to develop educational policy research on gender and sexual orientation diversity, the framework from a variety of aspects needs to be improved. For that, firstly we have to examine the culture of homophobia and transphobia embedded in the mainstream educational researches.
