A school in Ravenna is to have Italy's first 'gender alias' roster of students' names.
Students at the Liceo Artistico Nervi Severini will be able to pick a name and gender different from their given ones for the morning roll call, the school announced ahead of the International Day Against Homophobia Tuesday.
The initiative is aimed at "fostering the psychological well-being of people," said the school.
"Our action stems from a couple of requests we have received and it seems absolutely correct to meet them," said head teacher Gianluca Dradi , who in 2019 gained headlines by not cancelling the would-be scrawled insult '"the head is gay" because he said that being gay was not offensive.
One of the girls attending the school has already got her chosen name on her bus pass.
There is another student who does not identify as male or female.
"Our teachers have already been calling them by their elective names, but we have decided this should not only be a concession but also a right," said Dradi.
An artistic liceo in Rimini announced a similar scheme on Thursday.
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