School Plans to Require Skirts for Boys Due to Skyrocketing Numbers of Transgender Students

A north London private school has drawn up plans to introduce gender-neutral uniforms in response to a growing number of pupils questioning their gender identity.

Highgate school currently has an option for girls to wear a grey pleated skirt, but the school is consulting on a mix-and-match uniform policy which will not specify a different requirement for boys and girls.

Girls can currently wear grey trousers or skirts as well as the dark blue jackets and ties which make up the rest of the uniform. Boys may not wear a skirt and also have to wait until they are 16 to wear earrings.

Adam Pettitt, headmaster at the school, told the Sunday Times: “This generation is really questioning [if we are] being binary in the way we look at things.”

He said some former pupils had complained about the changes. “They write in and say if you left children to their own devices they would grow up differently and you are promoting the wrong ideas,” he said. (Read more from “School Plans to Require Skirts for Boys Due to Skyrocketing Numbers of Transgender Students” HERE) http://joemiller.us/2017/05/school-plans-require-skirts-boys-due-skyrocketing-numbers-transgender-stu