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Mouse wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:37 pm I am a governor at my local school and I attend in a skirt when I visit. In my defence, it has not been a pink skirt, but who knows in the future.

With uniform policy, shorts were not in the female section for acceptable uniform. In discussion, I put forward the idea that we just have a list of clothes that was acceptable uniform and take out any reference to male or female. The school now has a simple uniform policy that allows choice for all.

victor1964 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:41 pm

Mouse wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:37 pm I am a governor at my local school and I attend in a skirt when I visit. In my defence, it has not been a pink skirt, but who knows in the future.

With uniform policy, shorts were not in the female section for acceptable uniform. In discussion, I put forward the idea that we just have a list of clothes that was acceptable uniform and take out any reference to male or female. The school now has a simple uniform policy that allows choice for all.

Hi Mouse,

I am a school governor too. We changed our school uniform policy in a similar fashion. We had in the uniform choices. Shorts for boys, skirts or dresses for girls. All we did was take out the gender specifics so it now reads...summer uniform Shorts, skirts or summer dresses. We did that across the whole policy.

Was simple to do, not a single complaint from parents.

Ages 3-12

Barleymower wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:52 pm It good news but boys will need to be encouraged to give it a go. Or have a skirts day then a shorts day.

moonshadow wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:49 pm
I believe people, (boys and girls) should be encouraged to be themselves, even if that doesn't involve wearing a skirt. **

Everyone should have the choice, and nobody should feel pressured into anything.

Barleymower wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:56 pm What I want is to open the curtains and let the light in. Before that we need a little encouragement. I want to reassure boys that it's ok to do girl stuff. It's a shame to miss out on all the fun of clothes because of perceptions of manliness.

STEVIE wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:42 pm
Could you say that parents would be willing to extend that assurance to a non-trans male teacher and said teacher's bosses BM?
Only way I see that happening is if the teacher concerned was ultra popular and just waiting for conferral of a sainthood.
MIS are a rarity, teachers in dresses make us look dead common and they also appear to have a shorter lifespan than a losing football manager.
Problem here is that, apart from the kids, you could have at least 50 parent/guardians to convince that sir in a skirt is no threat to their lovely little cherubs.
I know, sweeping and pessimistic statements, but at anything under university level, I just cannot see it happening on any scale in the UK or pretty much anywhere else for that matter.
Steve.

Barleymower wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:56 pm - they want to mould the direction their son takes "to be a man" and not be soft.
- I want to reassure boys that it's ok to do girl stuff.
It's a shame to miss out on all the fun of clothes because of perceptions of manliness.

Barleymower wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:52 pm

victor1964 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:41 pm

Mouse wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:37 pm
I am a school governor too. We changed our school uniform policy in a similar fashion. We had in the uniform choices. Shorts for boys, skirts or dresses for girls. All we did was take out the gender specifics so it now reads...summer uniform Shorts, skirts or summer dresses. We did that across the whole policy.

Was simple to do, not a single complaint from parents.

Ages 3-12

Do you in school teach children certain aspects of clothing? I mean like when I was born dresses was used to clothe an infant regardless of sex and was sold as unisex clothing for infants. These fashions trends continue fluctuate from day to day. I look forward when children are taught clothes is just clothes and there is no true girls clothes or boy clothes.
I talk to different women in my community while shopping telling them about history who wore what and what happen to them for wearing certain attire. Case in point women was put in jail for wearing pants even when it was made for them. This happen in the beginning of 19th century here in America. This time period all pants was being declare solid men's clothing and labels had zero meaning. Even judges care less about labels on pants and sentence women for waring pants cause there was law said they can do that. Children need to be taught these true facts.
Today a person can still find clothing label for toddlers in general w/o their sex. This includes dresses and jumpsuit for all infants regardless of sex of infant. Retailers may list such clothing as girls or boys but labels says a different story.
Half of women I talk to was unaware boys infants was given same clothes as girls. Some was unaware women went to jail for wearing pants.
What is weird women are putting unisex clothing on children and they seem don't fully understand what they are doing. I was taught I can wear a dress as an infant. I can wear it as infant then I can wear it as an adult. It's that simple. Women don't understand that.
Women been shock after seeing me in a garment that wasn't pants when I start talking to them about clothes, this include even today one woman got shock because of my attire.