The lower house of the French parliament approved a legislative initiative on Thursday that aims to ban any discrimination based on hair and hairstyle. While discrimination on this basis has long been highlighted in the US and UK, the issue is still being ignored in France, argued Olivier Serva, a member of parliament from the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, who introduced the initiative. It provides for explicit reference to “cut, colour, length or texture of hair” in legal passages against discrimination. The Senate still has to approve the law. In France, there is no clear legal f…