Skirts for boys at private Highgate School under plans for gender-neutral uniform

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...utral-uniform/

Skirts for boys at private Highgate School under plans for gender-neutral uniform

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.

Some parents did not know that their children were questioning their gender identity, he added, forcing the school to mediate between parents and pupils.

The school already allows children to request that staff address them by a name of the opposite gender, which around half a dozen have done. One boy has also been allowed to wear a dress to school.

Other private schools have already drawn up policies to deal with children who were questioning their gender identity.

St Paul's Girls' School has a gender identity protocol that allows female pupils to be called by boys' names and wear boys' clothes.

The Girls' Schools Association has advised members to stop using the word "girls" and address children as "pupils" instead. Brighton College also replaced its uniform, which had been in place for 170 years, for a gender-neutral one.

Last year it was revealed that around 80 state schools were allowing pupils to wear clothes of the opposite gender.

Beyond infuriating. But then again it's north London.

I see boys now wearing make up on Facebook videos and wearing girls clothes and being told this is fine and acceptable. No it is not. We're raising a generation of literal *freaks* who are going to be a laughing stock and/or get their heads kicked in outside of their SJW controlled schools. It's child abuse plain and simple. We're going to be paying out millions in future years (mental health costs) for warped adults who are frankly delusional because they've not been taught right from wrong.

Raise Johnny to be Johnny and Mary to be Mary. Not Johnny to be Joanne and Mary to be Michael.

[FlyingJesus]

Why not just raise Johnny and Mary to be happy

Also skirts originated as male items of clothing and are far more comfortable through the summer. You haven't actually put a reason for these things to be wrong, it's the usual "IT JUST IS", and it's interesting that you claim right vs wrong is about what a person is allowed to wear rather than the desire to beat up anyone who doesn't look like us

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Why not just raise Johnny and Mary to be happy

Why not raise Johnny to know how to be a gentleman and father and Mary how to be a lady and mother?

Also skirts originated as male items of clothing and are far more comfortable through the summer. You haven't actually put a reason for these things to be wrong, it's the usual "IT JUST IS", and it's interesting that you claim right vs wrong is about what a person is allowed to wear rather than the desire to beat up anyone who doesn't look like us

That's correct. I'm not being dragged along with society into your moral relativist hell where wrong and right are upside down.

A boy dressing up in make up and women's clothes is perverse and damaging. And vice versa.

[FlyingJesus]

Again, no reasons why, just THIS IS TRUE BECAUSE I SAID SOOoOoOoOoo KILL THE REBELS

Wearing a piece of cloth wrapped around ones legs does not stop one from being a gentlemen or a father

[MKR&*42]

I'm confused, do the boys have to wear a skirt? If so then I think that's ridiculous and they should be allowed to wear trousers if they wish. Otherwise, eh not overly concerned though I feel the whole "call people pupils not girls and boys" is quite ridiculous.

[FlyingJesus]

No it's literally just having options the same way we had the option between trousers and shorts

[Plebings]

interesting....

[Charlie]

Let people be, I say. Everything should just be for everyone and not be exclusively associated with one sex. If boys want to wear skirts and wear make-up then go for it, it's the same as girls wearing boys clothing but no-one says anything about that. I do think that our generation is more accepting of these things so it'll become more of the norm, or at least I hope so. Of course there is going to be people that disagree with it but isn't there always?

It's the same as blue being for boys and pink being for girls, and how we have boys toys and girls toys. At a young age, they don't care that that girl is wearing blue and playing action man or that a boy is wearing pink and playing barbies so why must we put this idea of male things and female things into their mind?