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For , students at Britain’s Oxford University had to to a dress code regarding who wore suits and who wore . This will all change on August 4 after the university amended its related to formal academic clothing. Students will soon be to wear what they like. This means that women can formal events and exams in a suit and tie and men can wear a skirt, blouse and stockings. The new rules are in response to that the old ones were to the transgender society. They come after a motion by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer society (LGBTQ Soc.) was by the students' union earlier this year.

LGBTQ Soc. official Jess Pumphrey said the rule amendment would make a few students feel, “significantly stressful by eliminating the need for trans students to cross-dress to being... disciplined during their exam”. The old rules students who broke the dress code would be punished. Any student who wanted to wear that was designated for the opposite sex previously needed to special permission from their college. One student commented in the university newspaper “This a bit unnecessary. It only applies to a percentage of the student population and it seems that a trans student would really be about what they are wearing.”