Heidi Li FeldmanMay 21, 2023
Clearly, 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
School Can Force Trans Girl to Dress As Boy At Graduation, Judge Rules

The family of a 17-year-old transgender Harrison Central High School senior is suing after officials told her she must dress as a boy at graduation.

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Show threadA 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”.

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Show threadGeofCoxMay 22, 2023

@Tattered @heidilifeldman

I 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.