In new guidance, the CofE has advised its schools that boys should be given the freedom to wear heels or a tutu, and girls to wear a toolbelt or fireman’s helmet “without judgment or derision”.
Valuing All God’s Children [pdf] recommends teachers avoid using gender stereotype labels as pupils in nursery and primary should be able to “try out the many cloaks of identity”.
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