ROME — The latest skirmish in Italy's culture wars has erupted over a kindergarten's decision to introduce a unisex school uniform policy, instead of pink ones for girls and blue ones for boys, in the name of inclusivity and gender equality.
A kindergarten in Italy’s south-eastern region of Apulia had said it would ask first-year pupils to wear green aprons.ROME — The latest skirmish in Italy's culture wars has erupted over a kindergarten's decision to introduce a unisex school uniform policy, instead of pink ones for girls and blue ones for boys, in the name of inclusivity and gender equality.
The decision angered members of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's hard-right Brothers of Italy party, which is critical of LGBT rights and has campaigned against what it calls the "LGBT lobby". The opposition centre-left Democratic Party accused the Italian ruling party of "starting yet another pointless crusade" on the aprons, and of encroaching on schools' freedom to set their policies.
The school principal, Michele Serra, played down the dispute, saying that having a debate about education and inclusivity, in whatever way, was something positive.
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