Heidi Li FeldmanClearly, forcing this particular student to wear “masculine” rather than “feminine” attire is cruel to them. But reporting on gender-based dress codes must also note their patriarchal misogyny: telling all girls they have to wear dresses is a gender apartheid as well as discrimination against a trans girl. https://www.mississippifreepress.org/33223/trans-girl-sues-over-order-to-dress-as-boy-at-harrison-county-graduation
Rick Geissal@heidilifeldman And ... what will she do as a result of being forced by an authority to behave in a manner not only foreign to her but dismissive of her being-ness - if someone can be neither a girl or a boy? She might think her options are narrow ... or non-existent.
TransitBiker@heidilifeldman meanwhile these folks dress in gowns & hoods at their special meetings.
Phillyinflorida@heidilifeldman She'll have a gown on any way, so why does it matter what's underneath? Are they afraid she'll wear heels? She'd be in good company in Florida. Our gov wears heels quite often.
A Tattered Scrapbook@heidilifeldman This one hits home really hard. The savagery I encountered when I taught points like this in my classroom was, and remains, life-changing. The very idea of gendered clothing is a threat to safety. Ask the girls I used to teach how many had been molested on trains in uniform. 100%
Two students started a petition for permission to wear pants in winter, an act some teachers described as “terrorism” and “unnatural”.
GeofCoxI was a school teacher for a couple of years - many years ago - and hated the whole school uniform thing. - I was expected to make a big thing of a boy wearing flourescent green socks... I bought a flourescent green tie in solidarity.
My own children are English/French, and went to school first in England, with uniforms, then in France, without - and I can tell you from experience that all the usual rationales you hear in defense of uniforms in England (eg. they aid discipline, they disguise differences of wealth/class) are nonsense. In France, kids wear what they like, and teachers teach. Simple.
El Presidente@heidilifeldman the most efficient solution to this issue is to remove all those from power who cause it. Extreme measures may be necessary.
Dr Susi Arnott@heidilifeldman How much #genderdysphoria is about these absurd social expectations & demands, as much as biology/physiology?