A high school in Sydney, Australia, has agreed to change its dress code to let students wear uniforms regardless of gender.
“That wasn’t really a possibility for some students whose parents aren’t supportive of their gender identity,” Jo Dwyer told the Sydney Morning Herald. “Our aim was to remove the un-inclusive gender labels from the school uniform, and make it so that anyone could wear any aspect of the uniform without having to go through a long and difficult process.”
This new, inclusive policy went into effect last week, much to the predictable disapproval of a spokeswoman for the Australian Christian Lobby. Wendy Francis told the SMH, “To encourage a guy to wear a dress would just be setting him up for bullying. I don’t get it. It is a retrograde idea in my mind, there is no need to say we are going to allow boys to wear a kilt or girls to wear trousers, I find it almost laughable.”
The Department of Education says uniform policies at all the schools are at the administration’s discretion.
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