"Catholic school in Ireland will allow boy students to wear skirts"

"A Catholic school in Ireland announced its new gender-neutral uniform policy for elementary-level pupils that allows girls to wear pants and boys to wear skirts starting in September.

St. Brigid’s National School is located in Greystones, a small town near Dublin. The school will allow cross-dressing for its elementary students in order to confirm with transgender ideology. School principal Máire Costello said, according to the Irish Times, that the school’s student council was behind the idea, which was welcomed by the school board and parents. Costello told the paper that the school has students who are 'questioning their sexual identity' at an earlier age.

Even though St. Brigid’s National School is publicly funded, it’s under the ultimate authority of Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.

Until the change was announced, school policy required boys to wear gray pants and a green sweater. Girls were required to wear a green tartan pinafore. Upon returning to school in September, pupils will be able to choose the clothing they like regardless of their sex.

Saying the school wants children to have a 'happy experience in school,' Costello added, 'If that means girls wearing trousers or boys wearing skirts, so be it. The most important thing is that children should feel comfortable and happy over how they are dressed.' She claimed that school council members researched the opinions of their fellow pupils and found that school management supported the change.

St. Brigid’s school is also replacing boys’ and girls’ lavatories with gender neutral facilities."