Back to school - with a gender-neutral uniform.
As the new academic year begins for many students this week, schools across the UK have decided to stop specifically naming boys' and girls' outfits and instead now call them aPrimary and secondary schools, as well as sixth form colleges and private schools, including the likes of Brighton College, have made edits to their uniform descriptions, with some saying it helps the students wear clothes that “most reflect their self-identified gender”.
In 2019, one of the UK's biggest school uniform providers, Stevensons, said that it would be gender-neutral by default and no longer market uniforms for boys or girls. In new research undertaken byof 550 schools Stevensons supplies, the newspaper found that most had now adopted gender-neutral uniform policies.
Blofield primary school in Norwich altered its uniform policy last year to allow children aged four to 11 to pick clothing based on their “self-identified gender”. It said that to prevent discrimination it would “avoid listing uniform items based on sex, to give all pupils the opportunity to wear the uniform they feel most comfortable in or that most reflects their self-identified gender”.
Wellington, the private mixed boarding and day school in Somerset, has chose to name its uniforms A, B and C. It says its options let pupils make “a considered and thoughtful choice” but “a combination of ABC is not allowed."
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