Chalk this one up as a big win for a big bunch of big legends. Students at Sydney’s Newtown High School of the Performing Arts have won a battle with school administration that will see gender rules removed from their mandatory school uniform policy, meaning students can now freely wear whichever parts of the school uniform that they feel the most comfortable in.
“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.”
“Before the changes were implemented, students had to go through the school with parental permission and notes from psychologists before they were allowed to wear the cross gender uniform, and that wasn’t really a possibility for some students whose parents aren’t supportive of their gender identity.”
‘Course you can’t have a picnic without attracting a few pesky ants, and thus like clockwork the Australian Christian Lobby made a response that sounded like something lifted straight out of a 1940s Pentecostal gay panic after-school special.
“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.”
Imagine it! Boys wearing kilts! Girls wearing trousers! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
