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Texas School Board Keeps Gender-Neutral Dress Code Linked to Former DEI Council

Despite objections from two trustees, the Midlothian Independent School District in Texas voted to keep a gender-neutral dress code that Republican state Rep. Brian Harrison says was created by a diversity, equity, and inclusion council established in 2020.

Documents Harrison provided to the Daily Signal show that, in 2020, the diversity council for the district recommended adopting a gender-neutral dress code that eliminated separate standards for boys and girls and sought to protect students’ “emotional well-being.” The meeting about revising the dress code was discussed on Facebook and listed in the Midlothian ISD board’s July 20, 2020, agenda.

As seen in the Midlothian ISD document below from 2020, recommendations for a gender-neutral dress code aimed to “no longer separate girls/boys” and “celebrate diversity.”

Six years later, at the board of trustees’ July 20, 2026, meeting, one trustee, Ed Harrison, the father of state Rep. Brian Harrison, questioned whether the policy would prevent “a boy from wearing a dress to school.” The interaction was captured in a video segment of the meeting posted on X.

In the video, Krista Tipton, the district’s student services administrator, told Ed Harrison the dress code does not explicitly prohibit........

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