Crossdressing in School

[susandrea]

I don't know if this was posted here before, and it's from last September (I just came across it) but it's interesting.

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/tact

What the young think! :thumbsup:

[susandrea]

Well, the link is weak and having trouble loading, so here is a paste:

(it's an online petition)



Crossdressing in school
Created by Carolyn Peters on September 29th, 2006 at 10:40 pm AST

At Hazelwood Central High School boys can't crossdress i say this is wrong. It's a free country. Girls can wear "short shorts" but a guy can't wear a tasteful dress? What we wear has no effect on how well we do in school. We deserve the right to dress how we want. As long as it's tasteful i think guys should be able to wear girls clothes.
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20 Selena
I don't even classify myself a boy. I am girlall the way. And I dress and act like one as much as possible! I may have been born a boy, but Idon't let that hold me back. Whatever the situation is, be proud of who you are and don't be afraid of who you want to be.
19 Amanda
People who are so worried about what others are doing need a hobby. I say wear what you want.
18 kimberly
I agree boys should be aloud to wear girls clothes to school if they want to. I remember when i was ounger i couldn't wait to get home from school and change into girls clothes and go out to play
17 Gary Mackie
Being forced to act, dress, or adapt to society is unfair. Like a lot of people said, if a girl wants to wear jeans, mens boxers, mens t-shirts or anything else, they can just say that they do it because it feels more comfortable, and society accepts that. Us guys don't have that freedom.I don't wear skirts or dresses outside my home, but wear bra and panties when I go out under my guys clothes. It doesn't make you gay,doesn't mean you want to be a woman, and it doesn't make you a freak. Be proud of who you are, whatever people say!!
16 Rachael
I got bullied at mo old school for dressing as a girl, so i changed schools and enrolled as a girl,and everyone thought i was a girl. It shouldn't matter what you where, this is a free country.Boys should be allowed to wear the girls school uniform, if the girl is allowed to where the boys uniform.
15 cody
I am a crossdresser and I think school should let boys wear girls clothes to school. It doesn't affect how I do in school, and it shouldn't be problem
14 tim
i love to crossdress but in my school i'm not aloud to wear mini jeans skirt or any mini skirt.i love to wear mini skirt but i can't in school so i wear short short jeans that girl wear . the reason my school boy can't wear mini skirt is be cause the principal hates is when she wears one
13 ashley
being a fellow school boy i agree i think it unfair that girls are aloud to wear boys cloths and boy aren't aloud to wear girls
12 John
PEOPLE HAVE A RiGHT TO EXPRESSION
11 Michael Nelson
Women and girls have been crossdressing for many years. Why is their liberation still a constraint for men?
10 Gemma Richardson
9 Mindy Kintore
8 Tyra Johnson
forcing children into conformity,stereotypes and categorical labels of behavior is abusively detrimental to their mental health if contrary to their emotional and/or physical characteristics ~especially when these characteristics naturally contradict their anatomical gender.
Gender is not simply anatomical ~ their is hormonal gender ,genetic gender ,biological gender,mental gender,incongruent or ambiguous anatomical gender,biological brain gender and many other variables.
These attributes are influenced prior to birth often in vitro (factually proven) and subjectively genetic.
(and god doesn't make mistakes)
7 Cindy Marie
People should be able to express how they really feel instead of being held prisoner to others views.
6 Jayna Schwabeland
5 Kristian Johnson
4 Heather Schwabeland
3 Lauren Tompkins
It's our right as an American to dress the way we want as long as it isn't harming anyone else. It's not our places to judge people.
2 Carolyn P.
we should be allowed to wear what we want

[marie354]

The link didn't work for me earlier, so I didn't respond at that time. It did this time so here is my 2 cents.

I grew up in a day when it was unacceptable even to ask such questions and I think that it's great that school children are vocalizing what they want.
I really hope that they don't have all of the problems of being teased as people that I know that tried when I was that age.
I had to keep my preferances a secret, but if I was alowed to be more open then, I'm sure my life would have been different.
I'm not saying that I think that my life is wrong now, I enjoy it fully.
We can't move back in time, so far anyway, but I don't think that I would change my life that I've had.

Again, I think that it's great.
Maybe our grand children will have an easier life because of this.
:hugs:

[suzanne]

Marie, I think you are right on the money when you say our grandchildren will have an easier life. These kids are saying right now that CDing is No Big Deal. They are giving themselves an opportunity to integrate all the feelings they may have into their own individual personality. Every parent today who doesn't over-react when their son wears a skirt is doing his mental health a huge favor because there is no need for to retreal into a closet. The term crossdressing will slowly fade into memory as people merely dress as themselves.

When we older members of this forum were kids, it was indeed a very big deal for a boy to display any kind of 'feminine' traits. It set him up for any manner of ridicule, persecution or even physical harm. For a girl, however, being a Tomboy was No Big Deal and she could grow naturally into whoever she was. My SO is one such person and she is, in her way, passing the favor on to me. For the most part, she has no reaction to my dressing, except to say No Big Deal. I find my dressing is slowly losing some of the sexual component it acquired in my teens, and I'm just ME: a whole, multifaceted person who can't be contained by a single 'MALE' pigeonhole. I've never felt healthier, happier or more loving toward my wife, thanks to her support.

[noname]

You know, it really is sad, when we talk about freedom and oppress others. I remember reading a story about boy in HS repeatedly suspended for wearing a skirt. The fact that girls can wear pants and shorts of any style, and the boys are not is clearly gender discrimination, and those who support it should be ashamed of themselves.

Is there anyway to find out who made the petition, I think gpac.org might be interested.

[ManonJaree]

Have signed the petition hopefully it will have an effect.

[Amy Hepker]

This is an interesting topic and one that I feel should have been brought out years before now. Many older people don't realize what we had to endure as crossdressers. It is something that is only now coming about with the help of the internet. I never knew there were so many like myself. I knew there were some, but my God we are a goopart of the population. I think more than many people would ever have believed. The world is an ever growing place and it's about time we were noticed and ACCEPTED!

[Nigella]

If this is a genuine petition by adolescents then the future for the TG community as a whole just got to look a little brighter.

We need the younger generation to accept that there is nothing wrong with our hobby, but whilst that is hope, the reality is that their parents and other close family will be unlikely to support them in their views.

Our youngsters are more open minded that our parents were, and I would hope that they are allowed the freedom to express themselves in their way, not ours.

[Joy Carter]

The real reason would be that those who don't accept, would turn to those who feel they "personally" would need to do something about "all those queers". You would have incidents of disruption no matter what you did rule wise. I totally agree that one gender is freer than the other. You just have to satisfy your desires while away from work or school till things change.

[Jere Oneil]

On the one hand, schools have rules like this, but, on the other hand, a large majority of the schools have a "gender bender day", usually as part of the homecoming festivities. When I was in school, this wasn't true, but we had initiations for clubs and for the sports teams. My happiest day in high school was having? to wear a dress to school on initiation day. I loved every minute of it. I would have loved the gender bender days even more, because, the girls have a powderpuff football game, and the football players get to wear the cheerleader uniforms and cheer for them.

[Kimberly]

The younger generation are definatly more open minded!!

I'm 19, and even my generation is pretty okay about transgenderism. Most of my friends, (intelligent none the less) are very mature about my appearance sometimes, not having any problems with the way I want to dress.

Things look brighter for our future, but I still think there's a fight for our future - just as there are still fights about sexuality (gay adoption, par example.) xx

[phoebe61]

why cant boys wear girls clothes , girls wear boys clothes and nothing
is said and not a second glance, but boys wear girls clothes and we becaume worse than an alian et was more excepted:mad:

[marie354]

why cant boys wear girls clothes , girls wear boys clothes and nothing
is said and not a second glance, but boys wear girls clothes and we becaume worse than an alian et was more excepted:mad:

Yea, but ET didn't wear a dress.... He was naked!
:D

[Kimberly]

He was naked!
Yeah, no one gives a crap if you're starkers! It's when you wear a dress, that's the problem! :heehee: