About 80 publicly funded
schools including 40 primary schools have adopted the gender neutral policy which
will give male pupils/students the right to wear skirts and female
pupils/students the right to wear trousers.
According to reports, the scheme which was
announced earlier this week is part of
a drive, funded by the UK government for schools to be more open
to children who are questioning their gender identity.
The
headmaster of a boarding and day-pupil school, Richard Cairns, stated that they
had decided there would continue to be two different kinds of uniform, but
pupils could choose which one they wanted to wear. According to Richard, “This
change follows requests from a small number of families. It ties in with my
strong personal belief that youngsters should be respected for who they are. If
some boys and girls are happier identifying with a different gender from that
in which they were born, then my job is to make sure that we accommodate that.
My only interest as headmaster is their welfare and happiness”
A LGBT campaigner in the UK, Zitta
Lomax stated that, teachers want the pupils/students under their care to learn.
“If they are comfortable in what they are wearing, they are going to learn much
better than if they are being forced to wear something that they really don’t
want to”.
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