Sort of related to this thread. There was a short item on the local TV news last Friday about a primary school in Bristol which had just won some sort of equality award. The school provides unisex toilets and teaches that parents don't necessarily have to be male & female (I'm oversimplifying the story here). They also allow boys to wear skirts and dresses.
While the head teacher was being interviewed, there were two girls in the background, distinguishable by their long hair in platts. One was in a skirt, the other in trousers. After the teacher had said her bit, they interviewed a woman from Christian Concern, who rabbited on about sexualising the children. There wan't any real substance to her argument. I got the imprssion that she's still stuck with the mindset that girls can wear what they like, while boys must only wear trousers. I wondered what she sends her daughter to school in.
The presenter went on to point out that the parents were happy with what the school was doing.
What bothered me a bit was that the school said it supports LBGT; the public are now being fed the story that if a boy wants to wear a skirt, he must be wanting to become a girl, and he couldn't possibly want to wear skirts out of preference - like us guys. Nothing is ever said about girls wearing trousers because thay want to become boys
I've scoured the local BBC website and farcebook but can find no reference to this story. Perhaps it is not more newsworthy because no-one is making a fuss?
Charlie
If I want to dress like a woman, I'll wear jeans.