‘Boys should be allowed to wear skirts in school,’ says LGBT charity
By Josh Haggis
An LGBT charity has argued that boys should be allowed to wear skirts in school.
During a meeting with the Boarding Schools Association this week, the chief executive officer of LGBT charity Educate and Celebrate said that preventing children from expressing their gender identity can be harmful, reports The Gloucestershire Echo.
“If it’s alright for a girl to wear trousers, why should a boy not be allowed to wear a skirt? We should be giving them the option,” Elly Barnes.
She went on to add that schools need to start taking LGBT bullying as seriously as they do sexist or racist bullying.
“LGBT bullying is as important as sexist and racist bullying,” she added. “If a pupil says ‘my pen’s run out, it’s so gay’, you should challenge it. ‘My pen’s so Jewish, my pen’s so black’, you wouldn’t be allowed to say it.”
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