BOYS SHOULD BE FREE TO WEAR A TUTU, SAYS CHURCH OF ENGLAND

Washington, Nov. 13: Boys should be free to choose to wear a tutu, tiara or heels, and girls should be free to wear toolbelts and superhero capes, the Church of England has said in new guidance issued to its schools.

The advice also calls on teachers to avoid using labels that might alienate kids’s behaviour “just because it does not conform to gender stereotypes”, reported The Guardian.

The updated guidance for its 4,700 schools, titled ‘Valuing All God’s Children’, follows advice issued three years ago that covered homophobic bullying.

The church advises that nursery and primary schools should be a time of “creative exploration”, and that pupils should feel free to “try out the many cloaks of identity” and “explore the possibilities of who they might be without judgment or derision”.

In the guidance, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, warns that homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying causes “profound damage leading to higher levels of mental health disorders”.