Annunziata Rees-Mogg says her 12-year-old daughter has raised concerns over gender “erasure”.
It comes as schools across the country opt to scrap boys’ and girls’ uniforms in a bid to allow children to choose clothes “in relation to their gender identity”.
In many cases, “boy” and girl” are removed from uniform policy documents and replaced by “uniform A” and uniform B”, with some schools even introducing a third option of “uniform C”.
Major school uniform provider said in 2019 that their offerings would be gender-neutral by default, and they would no longer market gender-specific uniforms.
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An analysis carried out by The Mail on Sunday found that most have adopted gender-neutral uniform policies.
Rees-Mogg said that her daughter is increasingly concerned by the trend.
“It’s an absolutely abominable idea”, she said on GB News.
“I actually called my 12-year-old to get her take on it, and she said ‘no, why do they keep trying to erase women?’
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PA“The National Education Union said ‘it is not good practice to make boys and girls to wear different uniforms’.
“The only option they leave you with in trousers. They’re putting all the girls in boys’ uniforms.
“What happened to being allowed to be feminine, to be allowed to be a feminist?”
Britain’s most expensive private school, Brighton College, is among the institutions to have adopted gender policies.
Its headmaster Richard Cairns told the Daily Mail he wants to “give transgender children personal leeway”.
Wellington private boarding and day school for boys and girls in Somerset gives pupils the option of ‘Uniform C’.
It says pupils are given a “considered and thoughtful choice” with the options outlined.
In the analysis, 550 schools were studied, and it was found that most of which had adopted gender-neutral uniform policies.
