Mexican Gender-Neutral School Uniform Plan Creates Stir

A proposal to allow children in Mexico City to decide whether to wear skirts or trousers to school has caused a swirl of controversy in a country long regarded as a bastion of Roman Catholic family values. Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico City's new leftist mayor, unveiled the "gender-neutral uniform" initiative on Monday to promote gender equality in schools. "The era when girls had to wear a skirt and boys had to wear trousers is behind us, I think it's passed into...

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