Oxford University changes dress code to meet needs of transgender students

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Source: The Guardian

Oxford University has rewritten the laws governing its strict academic dress code following concerns that they were unfair towards transgender students.

Under the new regulations, students taking exams or attending formal occasions will no longer have to wear ceremonial clothing that is specific to their gender.

It will mean men will be able to sit tests in skirts and stockings and women will have the option of wearing suits and bow ties.

The laws, which come into force next week, follow a motion put forward by the university's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer society (LGBTQ Soc) was passed by the student union.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jul/29/oxford-university-dress-code-transgender-students

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Rick Santorum just fell out of his seat.

[burrowowl]

1. Good for Oxford!

[Nye Bevan]

2. Women could always wear a black trouser suit.

But men not being allowed to wear skirts with stockings was shockingly discriminatory.

[XemaSab]

3. It's startling to me

that they have such a strict dress code in general.

[alp227]

4. Well, I guess that British university wants students to dress as if it were the 19th century.

[4th law of robotics]

8. Do they have to wear those powdered white wigs?

I really hope they do.

[Paulie]

5. I thought they did everything in academic gowns.

[Trillo]

6. Are Academic institutions where Bankster colors come from?

In a non-historical sense, it seems one goes to college before becoming a bankster, so in that limited sense relating to current culture, it appears so.

Is identifying the elite who are conducting financial warfare on the masses as simple as looking at the gang colors people either choose or are forced to wear? Or are the criminals merely hiding under gang colors, and they would wear some other colors if hiding demanded it?

[Posteritatis]

7. facepalm (nt)