Gender based dress code implemented -- it has happened

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Another issue is that Mississippi is a backward Southern Hillbilly state what a large percentage of its population still living in the 1950's.
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Again this is another situation where the dress code is forcing boys to wear neckties. These medieval torture devices have been shunned by most men. There is also the double standard issue with allowing girls to wear pants.
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crfriend wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 10:18 pm
rode_kater wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 7:50 pmNobody was suggesting turning the event into a circus. One person asked the question. The reasonable response would have been: sure, just show due respect for the event and don't draw attention to yourself. I don't understand why people think being inclusive means that everything becomes a circus.
Realistically, nobody other than small-minded "administrators" would even take notice. One batch of high-school kids looks very much like any other batch of high-school kids to everyone but their families and friends. Furthermore, the underlying attire would be hidden by the ceremonial gown. Thus, the entire thing is essentially a meaningless and mean-spirited political statement by the local school board and really ought to be ignored by anyone with a sufficient IQ.

Yet another tempest in a teapot.
Agreed, but unfortunately it cannot be ignored by the student. She will remember this unfortunate event for the rest of her life. Also, the school board subscribes to the Southern hillbilly mindset. There will be newspaper photogs at the event and the school does not want press for supporting LGBTQ. Even if the clothing cannot be seen under the gown, it will still be pointed-out by the local hate groups.
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jamie001 wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 11:15 pm Another issue is that Mississippi is a backward Southern Hillbilly state what a large percentage of its population still living in the 1950's.
Did you not see my link where this exact same thing happened in Hawaii?

Transgender women are not welcome in all 50 states and all countries.

Transgender women are not welcome anywhere.

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jamie001 wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 11:27 pm the school does not want press for supporting LGBTQ.
But they shouldn't be just supporting LGBTQ people, they should be supporting everyone as a human being.

In an alternate timeline the school just said sure, just don't draw attention to yourself. Then there would have been no news items, everybody would have had a great day, nobody would have known. I'm sure this happens all the time at schools across the world. The person had previously been at a dance without the school caring, so they knew it wouldn't be a problem. The school didn't have to take a public position, they chose maximum virtue signalling. I hope they're happy with the results.

It's just simple: if you can make someone else's life better at zero cost to yourself, there's really no reason not to do it.
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I don't understand why this was a big deal.
Why was there even a discussion on this beforehand?

The Dress code called for Black Pants & White Shirt, or White Dress.
She should have just shown up in a White Dress and participated.
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phathack wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 1:02 amShe should have just shown up in a White Dress and participated.
If the individual was a girl with XX chromosomes, that's what would have happened. As it works out this one has XY chromosomes, and that's what set everybody off. One would think that they might have better things to do, but ...
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This case got me thinking of another one a few years ago involving a high school graduation ceremony that I read about somewhere (but was never challenged in court AFAIK). In that case, it wasn't about a gendered-language policy and a trans person being treated as their biological/assigned-at-birth sex wrt such rule (like the one in the OP here), but rather a policy with no gendered language but has a disparate impact on trans people: The requirement that you be called with your legal name at the ceremony.

On one hand if taken to court this may be an even harder sell from a transgender person's perspective since technically speaking there is no "sex" discrimination. On the other hand the spirit of the policy is probably that the school wants you to use your "formal" name and not nicknames, etc. - which is typically, but not necessarily, your "legal" name (besides trans people another case I could see where the two diverge is when a student unofficially goes by one surname but legally has another because the non-custodial parent is blocking the custodial parent from changing the minor student's last name to the preferred one - if that's the case for the trans graduate legally speaking it may come down to whether no legal name change has been done by choice vs. if there are legal obstacles to getting such done).
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