Gender-neutral uniforms are now being implemented in schools across the UK.
The adoption of gender-neutral uniform policies forms part of a government funded initiative, Educate & Celebrate, which is a programme backed by the Department of Education in the UK that promotes an LGBT-inclusive curriculum to reduce discrimination and promote equality among students. It also strives to provide funding to schools to enable and implement such measures with the aim of improving the lives of LGBT students.
Allens Croft Primary School in Birmingham received £200 000 (R4 334 429.49) from the organisation and have subsequently introduced a policy that allows students to select which clothes they want to wear to school. In doing so, they “aim to promote each child’s right to express their gender and personality in whichever way feels right for them”. (Dazed Digital).
To this we say: hurrah!