I am not in fovour of the banning. Nor with the sentiment that making people look the same equals equality.
It's like race. Acknowledge and celebrate difference and diversity, rather than being colorblind, or enforcing conformity. Will they make Sikhs cut their hair? Why should a hippy be allowed to keep their long hair (not an overt religious gesture) yet a Sikh, whose hair is religious, be made to cut it? And if they are allowed to keep it, what difference is it, having long hair, to having a little skull cap or scarf. All adorn the head.
Live and let live. Enforcing conformity is frightening.
