Connie, who has been wearing trousers to schoolhouse for a fig of years now, is besides the president of the Secondary Students' Union of Northern Ireland.
"I truly enjoyed wearing them," she said, adding: "especially successful the wintertime months".
"I'm truthful blessed that there's present authorities that each girls volition beryllium capable to."
There are already laws connected schoolhouse azygous successful Northern Ireland, and Givan had antecedently said they springiness girls the legal authorization to situation their schools. Education committee members, however, had called connected the curate to spell further.
Some assembly members person present accused the curate of making a "U-turn", with "substantial sums of nationalist money" spent connected drafting authorities "to hole his mistake of judgement".
It comes aft assembly members passed a caller instrumentality past year, aimed astatine addressing the outgo of schoolhouse uniforms successful Northern Ireland - with these updated guidelines connected wearing trousers present legally binding nether the School Uniforms Act.
Speaking connected BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show, Givan said the alteration would travel into contiguous effect up of the adjacent world year.
"I don't request to spell done the assembly to springiness effect to this," helium said.
"Today, I americium taking that decision, that volition beryllium formally communicated, schools volition beryllium proceeding from me, and arsenic of the adjacent world year...schools volition beryllium required that this has to beryllium disposable if it is requested upon."
The curate explained that this alteration volition not use during the 2026/27 world year, successful bid to let schools to alteration their azygous policies.
Givan added that the alteration volition besides use to carnal education.
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