A boy wore a skirt to his school in Suffolk because he wasn’t allowed to wear shorts there in hot weather.
Male students at Farlingaye High School in Woodbridge are told they must wear trousers year-round.
Sandy Page said her 13-year-old son Toby put on a skirt to show it was “time to look at the uniform again”.
The school said it has a “standard uniform policy” and will “address any parent concerns through the usual channels”.
Students at the school, which has around 2,000 students aged 11 to 18, have started a petition calling on them to change their uniform policy after some eighth grade boys got into trouble because they were at wearing shorts in the hot weather last week.
It said that not allowing students to wear shorts “interferes with concentration in class” because they “couldn’t concentrate because of the oppressive temperatures.” It has received hundreds of signatures.
Ms Page said some parents had emailed the school to say they were okay with their children.
She said her son told her that “the world is changing” as people are becoming more flexible about gender, adding, “Why is there one rule for girls and another for boys?”
On Monday, he asked a friend to bring him a skirt and he changed on the bus, she said.
In a message to his mother later, the boy said he had been asked what he was wearing and told a teacher it was “my decision to wear girls uniform today”.
He explained he did not identify as a girl but was too hot in long trousers, Ms Page said, and as he had gotten into trouble for wearing shorts he was wearing an item from the uniform list.
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