BETHESDA, Md. – A Maryland high school is changing its homecoming tradition to do away with the practice of electing “kings” and “queens,” and replace it with a gender-neutral approach.

The new system for selecting homecoming royalty at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School will involve a list of students on a ballot for each grade, and those who receive the most votes – boy or girl or something else – will be crowned at halftime during a football game against Poolesville on Oct. 7, The Washington Post reports.

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Previously, students would select a homecoming king from male students on the ballot and a homecoming queen from female students, but the Student Government Association wants a more “inclusive” system.

“It provides an opportunity for all students to be involved in something that was exclusionary,” SGA president Jacob Rains told the news site. “It is really not our job, especially with a gender-neutral and transgender population at B-CC, to tell people that boys have to be kings and girls have to be queens. Who are we to put people into those categories?”

The Post points out that the move, approved in a 4-1 vote by SGA officials last week, is the latest in a movement of schools shifting to gender-neutral traditions to appease transgender and other sexually abnormal teens.

Other high schools in Montgomery County have instituted one color for graduation gowns, instead of different colors for boys and girls, while schools in other states have already moved to gender-neutral homecoming and prom celebrations, according to McClatchy DC.

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“At Madison West High School in Wisconsin, students from its gay-straight alliance launched a petition urging (a gender neutral homecoming), and more than 1,000 students and staff members signed on” principal Beth Thompston told the Post.

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Earlier this month, a gay male student at Florida’s Cypress Creek High School successfully pressured school officials into allowing him to run for homecoming queen after he was initially told he couldn’t, WFTV reports.

In Kansas City’s Oak Park High School, transgender senior Landon Patterson – a boy-turned-girl – was nominated by students to be homecoming queen last year, according to Fox 4.

Not all students, however, are enthusiastic about ditching decades of tradition in favor of “inclusiveness.”

Students at B-CC “responding to Rain’s post about the decision on Instagram … mocked issues of gender identification,” the Post reports. “Some raised objections.”

“Wow, this really makes sense?” one student wrote. “Really disappointed that students couldn’t vote on this or something.”

Regardless, the B-CC and SGA is pressing forward with its effort to better accommodate transgender students with the homecoming change, as well as more gender-neutral bathrooms on campus, according to the news site.

“It just felt like this was the right time to do this,” Rains said. “We looked closely and decided: ‘Hey, this is a problem with the current system, and we should go and solve it.’”