School Kicks Boy Out For Dressing Like A Girl

Wow!

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A couple of years ago, my daughter brought home her HS yearbook, and we were looking through it together. I stopped at one page and asked my daughter about a particular picture, and her response was, "Oh, that's Phil". Phil was dressed in women's clothes and wearing a wig and makeup. I asked my daughter if it was for something going on in school that day, and she said, "No, that's how he dresses everyday". She then turned to other places in the yearbook and showed other pictures of Phil, all in similar clothing. We then went on to look at the rest of the yearbook.

The casual manner with which my daughter handled that, and the fact that she had never mentioned anything to us about it before then, made me very proud. Stuff like this makes me confident that the next generation is going to make great social changes.

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this just makes me so angry, and very sad.

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The bravery of some these young kids truly astounds me, as well as the self-comfort and knowledge it takes to live your life openly in a way that's certainly going to raise eyebrows in many aspects of your life. I can sort of commiserate with growing up gay, but trans kids really fight an even tougher battle. And this one is in Georgia, of all places, the poor thing.

I guess I'm taking a leap in calling him trans, since there's no mention of it in the story, but I guess I'm using it as umbrella term more than anything.

I just worry about the dropping out of school part, with no mention of anything taking its place while this is being resolved.

Does anybody know if there's a Phil fan club, because I would totally join.

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"Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots
'Cause it's OK to be a boy"

i can tell you from experience that it's NOT always "girls can dress like boys with no problem"
i recently had to switch schools because of it. people can be just as cruel to a biological female who dresses and identifies as a male.

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Abba, I get the intent behind what SM2 posted, but I get what you're saying, too. I think the middleground is that women have a wider berth in the clothing arena than men do, simply because you can be a "feminine" woman in short hair and boots a lot easier than you could be a "masculine" man heading out in public with a dress on. But I do get your point. When people are confronted with a glaring exception to what they consider "normal" expressions of gender, many of them flip out.

Maybe they kicked him out because they got complaints from girls that he was prettier than?

No surprise this happened in Georgia. I grew up in the south and I still don't understand it. (Though, interestingly enough, there was one cross-dressing boy at my Texas high school, and nothing major ever happened. There were whispers, but not much else.)

He is fabulous and gorgeous and they're all jealous.

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