Encourage individual schools to remove uniform policies

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

Encourage schools not to enforce a uniform policy. Instead, create a dress code, decided by each individual school with input from teachers, parents and, most importantly, children. This will only take an email to every school and person of power in a school pressuring change, and surveys.

School uniforms create an unnecessary gender divide. They don't allow students to have a say in how they present. They are also harmful to transgender children. Even if a school lets a child socially transition by letting them wear the correct uniform, they will practically be carrying a sign around their neck telling their peers that they are transgender. This leads to large risk of bullying and invasive questions. Or, the child will have to stay in a uniform that doesnt suit them.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Require schools to have gender-neutral uniform policies: Require schools to have gender-neutral uniform policies

Ban school uniforms in English schools: Ban school uniforms in English schools

Timeline

31 Mar 2022	Petition opened for signatures
5 Apr 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 5 Apr 2022

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