A British high school has decided establish for this academic year a uniform without gender, identical for all, with which it intends to end the differences in dress among students.
Guys and girls will wear pants, and this has not pleased the most critics who complain that don't let children be boys and girls be girls, and such measures are adopted.
Genderless uniform
A few days ago we told you how some British department stores had started selling children's clothing "without specific gender", with which they pretended it was the client himself, and not the label of the garment, who decided if that skirt, shirt or pants was For your boy or girl.
And it seems that a similar measure has begun to reach schools. This time it is a "gender neutral uniform" and the first to adopt it has been the private school of high school Priory, in which boys and girls will dress the same.
His uniform consists of gray trousers, black shoes, shirt and tie for the cold months and shorts and short-sleeved polo as a summer uniform.
With this outfit they try to "solve problems of inequality and decency" and avoid the possible feeling of exclusion that transgender children could feel. In addition, they hope to end the complaints and suggestions that have been received for years and that referred to the girls' skirts or to children's ties.
“The students have been wondering why boys have to wear a tie and girls don't, and why they have different uniforms. So we decided that everyone has the same uniform. Another issue is that we have a small but growing number of transgender students, and wearing the same uniform is important to them ”- explains the director of the school, Tony Smith.
"We hope that the current uniform will provide an elegant, comfortable and affordable alternative to the uniform that has been used so far" - reads its website.
As usual, not everyone has understood this measure and a well-known British journalist named Piers Morgan, a former student of this school, also wonders if the new rules in dress will also apply to teachers or only to minors:
“It's sad to see my old school mired in this nonsense of gender neutrality. Let the boys be boys and the girls be girls, and stop confusing them in this ridiculous way. ”
However, most have accepted and applauded this decision that will lead to diversity, and other schools are likely to start applying it, since many have been looking for solutions to meet the needs of transgender children, which is currently going through, for example, the installation of unisex toilets or the student's freedom to wear a male or female uniform.
Via El País
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