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Virginia school district considering ban on cross-gender dress

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In an attempt to protect students from bullying and harassment, a Virginia school district is considering outlawing cross-dressing, a vague way to describe students wearing clothing that would traditionally be worn by people of the other sex. 

Administrators in Suffolk, Virginia believe they’ll be keeping kids from the teasing and even suicide that has taken place across the country in cases where students dressed in ways that didn’t “match their gender,” but the ACLU has already spoken up to say the policy is vague and discriminatory. 

James Parrish, executive director of Equality Virginia, suggested that district administrators needed education on issues related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.

 

“If a girl comes to school wearing jeans and a flannel shirt, is that considered cross-gender dressing?” he told Reuters, adding that a misunderstanding of the issues could actually make the students more susceptible to bullying.

 

“They’re calling it cross-dressing, but if that individual was wearing clothes that reflect their gender identity, that’s not cross-dressing, that’s appropriate gender dressing,” he said.

A vote will take place in March and the ban could potentially take effect in July. What say you?

Virginia, what are you even doing. 

Filed under virginia transphobia trans* trans* hate trans*rights trans-erasure

  1. invisibleblackunicorn reblogged this from searchingforknowledge
  2. searchingforknowledge reblogged this from thecomplaintbox and added:
    This utter fuckery doe
  3. thecomplaintbox reblogged this from strawberreli and added:
    “In an attempt to protect students from bullying and harassment” a Virginia school ensconces blaming the victim for...
  4. neruka reblogged this from gaywrites
  5. goodgiggles2 reblogged this from gaywrites and added:
    This seems like a terrible decision. One that says there is something wrong with the gender non-conforming individuals...
  6. cifer reblogged this from yourinsidesxrayed
  7. happily-evrr-after answered: How about, instead of telling them not cross dress, they tell everyone to stop being asses and bullies about it?? hmm That would stop it all.
  8. fatraccoon answered: Reminds me of when I wore my skirt to school back in my freshman year here at bird, got in so much trouble.
  9. lgbtq-alliance reblogged this from gaywrites and added:
    This is disgusting, it’s sad that I live in a state that doesn’t even accept people for how they want to dress.
  10. tidalice reblogged this from missyankovic and added:
    This makes me want to scream. Homestate. What. Are. You Doing. Stop this. Right now. There are a very large number of...
  11. frontier001 answered: Virgina has had an identity criss since Civil War; neither north of south they try to be most extreme of both. Sad.
  12. gaylienz answered: Bullshit…D:
  13. missyankovic reblogged this from carpecumberbatch
  14. yourinsidesxrayed reblogged this from lights-on-fire
  15. saltfleetpositivespace reblogged this from gaywrites
  16. lezz96 answered: cross-dressing should be allowed, taking away someones rights is wrong and the bullys should be punnished more harshly not the victums!
  17. signinggramm answered: I agree with Parrish. I wear V-necks, but not because I’m trying to cross-dress, I just like the look. So where do you draw the line?!
  18. wereherewerequeer reblogged this from gaywrites
  19. shyandsmiley reblogged this from carpecumberbatch
  20. longlineofquitters answered: I’m afraid myself and every woman in my family are crossdressers by conservatives’ standards. That’s how we roll. This law is pure bullshit.
  21. thisisadrienne reblogged this from youdontlooklikeafeminist and added:
    Get yo shit together Virginia.
  22. beardedlizard answered: No.
  23. shadesofaspectrum reblogged this from gaywrites
  24. shadesofaspectrum answered: How could forcing these kids to conform to gender norms help them at all? All it’s going to do is make them feel worse.
  25. fingerlish answered: Isn’t discrimination going to bring bullying too?
  26. feliciano-kun reblogged this from heavymadgoff
  27. jimbo4 answered: Then those administrators needed to be educated more.
  28. heavymadgoff reblogged this from gayyouth and added:
    So apparently encouraging discrimination...prevent bullying. How ironic. I’m actually...
  29. ms-tangible answered: this is rediculous, the extent that some school boards go to is way too extreme and not to mention WRONG, these people need to be educated.
  30. littlealiengirl reblogged this from gaywrites and added:
    So wait, are they saying that I was made fun of for wearing baggy men’s shirts and pants and not because the people...
  31. show-me-your-lewd-self reblogged this from gaywrites
  32. re-activated answered: isn’t this ironic ? they’re perpetuating the bullying by banning cross dressers + in the process justifying the discrimination.
  33. howitfeelstobeyoung reblogged this from ingenueswithlonglashes and added:
    my state everybody. so fucking proud… /sarcasm
  34. ingenueswithlonglashes reblogged this from howaboutchaos
  35. everythinginconsequential reblogged this from a-rambling-shadow
  36. howaboutchaos reblogged this from rainbowvegan
  37. howaboutchaos answered: mo. just no