Sorry, but I have to voice some dissent against this.Originally Posted by Emma England
A friend of mine has two teenage girls. One of the teenage girls (say, "Amy" decided she would wear incredibly ****ty (borderline barely acceptable at school) clothes. Her mother found out, told her not to wear those clothes to school. Amy then decided to wear them anyway, but stuff them in her bookbag and change when she got to school. Mom found out anyway, and raided her closet, throwing out the ****ty clothes.
I don't see a big problem in that scenario.
Different houses work differently. In some (and it's perfectly acceptable), there is no democracy, and children do not have rights that usurp a parent's responsibility to raise them. Would a parent not have a right to throw out a baggie of weed if they found out? You can say, "that's different! It's illegal!" but it really isn't different. Most parents attempt to instill some sense of right and wrong into their children. To many parents, crossdressing is a 'wrong' (not that they are right), and react in a manner in keeping with that.
I wish the original poster's parents had reacted differently, but I don't find the reaction surprising, and I don't really find much 'wrong' with it per se. What is wrong isn't the action; it's the parent's lack of understanding of crossdressing.
