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Uppingham School, whose alumni includes Stephen Fry, will be open to any boy wishing to ditch their trousers for school.



The school's headmaster Richard Maloney already tries to use the gender-neutral term “pupils” rather than “boys and girls”



Mr Maloney said: “I would hope that any pupil could come to me and say, ‘This is who we are, this is how we wish to express ourselves. We want to wear these clothes’, and we would probably allow that.”



He told the Sunday Times during an inclusivity week last year one boy decided to wear a long skirt.



“I would hope that any pupil could come to me and say, ‘This is who we are, this is how we wish to express ourselves' Headmaster Richard Maloney

A number of schools have adopted gender neutral uniforms, including Highgate in North London, but Uppingham, which charges fees of more than 36,000 a year to board, still has separate uniforms for boys and girls.



Mr Maloney spoke after former Uppingham student TV doctor Christian Jessen, said he might have worn a skirt to school if he had been given the option.



The Embarrassing Bodies star said: "I probably would have worn a skirt to shock. I never toed the line, I was always different.



"For too long we have stereotyped people— notions such as pink for girls and blue for boys are problematic ... I think it would help for schools to have a gender neutral uniform.”

GETTY Boys will be allowed to wear skirts

GETTY Dr Christian from Embarrassing Bodies went to Uppingham