Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that pupils attending state schools will no longer have to wear gender-specific uniforms.

"Boys can wear skirts if they want and girls can wear trousers if they want," Mayor Sheinbaum said. She added that the measure would create "a condition of equality, of equity".

Previous guidelines stated that "just as the skirt is the basic garment of a girl's daily school uniform, so trousers are for boys". Mayor Sheinbaum said that that kind of thinking "had passed into history" and that the new measure would come into effect "immediately".

Ms Sheinbaum, from the left-wing Morena party, made the announcement while visiting a primary school in the city centre. It was welcomed by transgender activists who said it would help children who until now had to use a uniform they may not have identified with. Read more via BBC