‘Boys and girls have equal freedom’: Kerala backs gender-neutral uniforms

Primary school pupils run free in shorts while a secondary school has gone ahead with uniform changes despite protests

It’s break time at Valayanchirangara primary school and the pupils run freely beneath the mango trees and palms. Girls race against the boys, hitching up their knee-length shorts, cargo green for girls and teal blue for boys, as they go.

It’s been three years since this small government primary school introduced gender-neutral uniforms for its pupils, and in doing so set in motion a quiet revolution that is now sweeping across the south Indian state of Kerala.

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