Since 2023, the Ministry of Education has designated 20 April each year as “Gender Equality Education Day.” In line with the Executive Yuan’s “National Action Plan for the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence (2025–2027),” the theme for the 2026 Gender Equality Education Day is “Understanding and Respecting Gender Diversity.” The aim is to enhance teachers’ and students’ understanding of the situations faced by gender-diverse persons and to strengthen awareness of gender equality, thereby achieving the educational goal of “more understanding, no more discrimination” and actively safeguarding students’ right to education.

The Ministry of Education’s Gender Equality Education Global Information Network provides a “Gender Equality Education Day” section and a “Curriculum, Teaching Materials, and Research” section, which compile past exhibition and activity information as well as teaching resources. Schools are encouraged to make full use of these as references for designing curricula and activities (https://reurl.cc/A6EM4p).

In addition, the Ministry has developed the handbook “Campus-Friendly Teaching Resources on Gender Diversity,” which includes sections on key concepts, curriculum and instruction, campus experiences, guidance for homeroom teachers, and teaching resources on gender diversity. It serves as a practical guide for faculty and staff in course design, activity planning, and campus implementation (https://reurl.cc/qVrRQR). Schools may also refer to the “Training Materials on the Protection of the Rights of Gender-Diverse Persons” compiled by the Department of Gender Equality of the Executive Yuan. These materials cover human rights conventions and general comments, the situations of gay/lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex persons, as well as legal rights, protections, and anti-discrimination issues related to gender diversity (https://reurl.cc/9pvQMa). Schools may integrate these resources into training courses to enhance overall effectiveness in promotion.

Starting from the 2025 academic year, the Ministry of Education has included “organizing activities in response to Gender Equality Education Day” as a review item in the “Document Review Plan on Special Education, Student Affairs and Guidance Funding, and Gender Equality Education Implementation in Institutions of Higher Education.” In addition, for performance-based subsidies to public and private universities and overall development incentive grants for technical and vocational colleges, the requirement that “at least three categories of personnel, such as teachers, coaches, administrative staff, and members of the gender equality education committee, regularly receive training on gender diversity issues” has also been listed as an evaluation indicator. All institutions are therefore requested to actively plan and promote initiatives in line with the 2026 Gender Equality Education Day theme, in order to create a learning environment that respects diversity.