Officials in a liberal Stockholm suburb that discourages gender stereotypes are to open a gender-neutral changing room in a secondary school to avoid students being classified as male or female.

Patrik Biverstedt, headmaster of the Soedra Latins upper secondary school, said they decided on the cubicle where one person can change at a time after students proposed it last year.

Students’ union member Camille Trombetti said the changing room was not only “for transsexual” students but any student who wanted privacy when changing.

Soedra Latins is in the same affluent Sodermalm district where children at the Egalia nursery school are encouraged to avoid using “him” and “her” and to call others “friends” instead of girls or boys.