I get the strange feeling it's easy for people to accept a "non-binary" person wearing a skirt as opposed to a "man". It might just be because of how society thinks of skirts on guys, or skirt=woman. It's also a shame it has had to come to this - for people who express themselves differently than how the pack does, that we need to create a new class of person "type"*. I realize "non-binary" goes beyond outward appearance, but just let people be people...Stevej180 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 3:52 pmI’m not sure you were being obtuse (as I understand that word) but I suspect this has more to do with the supplier and the school is actually being quite open and egalitarian - i.e. saying you can wear whatever that supplier will supply. That they don’t market skirts for boys is a slightly separate issue I feel. The supplier could easily just remove the gender labels from the clothes and it would largely solve the problem, depending on the age of the children. Until puberty I think the body shape of girls and boys isn’t much different… it’s after that where fit and length becomes more of an issue.Stu wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 12:40 pm I left it there. Was I being obtuse? I think her "new policy" is just another fudge - virtue signalling about how progressive the school is when it is not really giving all students equality at all - it's just catering for trans girls. I perhaps should have asked her why she hadn't contacted the supplier and asked them to label all their skirts as "unisex" and that would have solved the issue.
*Perhaps it's their way of finding community or people like them, but all these silos of groupthink worry me greatly. I feel like the internet/social media has greatly accelerated that process.
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