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Title: Boys Wear Skirts to in Protest After School Fines TransGirl for Wearing Skirt
Post by: Keira P on September 21, 2014, 12:57:00 PM
Post by: Keira P on September 21, 2014, 12:57:00 PM
QuoteNine days after transgender student Maria Muniz was fined by school officials for wearing a skirt, a group of her Colégio Pedro II classmates decided to stage a protest: both male and female students would all wear skirts on the same day.
Soon after their demonstration an ecstatic Muniz learned that the school's decision was overturned, reports the UK's Orange News. Pedro II's principal told Brazil's Globo that the school will consider relaxing their dress code.
After the protest, school officials posted a picture of their male and female students wearing wearing skirts to social media, where it became widely shared. Supporters have been writing their support to Muniz using the hashtag #VouDeSaia.
"For me, wearing a skirt was about expressing my freedom over who I am inside and not how society sees me," Muniz told Orange News.
"I am really happy about the way my classmates supported me and hope it serves as an example to others to feel encouraged to do the right thing," she added. "I was always taught at school to accept who you are. I am only trying to live that."
http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/09/20/boys-wear-skirts-class-protest-after-school-fines-trans-girl-wearing (http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/09/20/boys-wear-skirts-class-protest-after-school-fines-trans-girl-wearing)
Sometimes people are awesome. :)
Title: Re: Boys Wear Skirts to in Protest After School Fines TransGirl for Wearing Skirt
Post by: Miss_Bungle1991 on September 21, 2014, 01:03:53 PM
Post by: Miss_Bungle1991 on September 21, 2014, 01:03:53 PM
That's awesome!
Title: Re: Boys Wear Skirts to in Protest After School Fines TransGirl for Wearing Skirt
Post by: Eris on September 21, 2014, 02:09:05 PM
Post by: Eris on September 21, 2014, 02:09:05 PM
You know that feeling where you read something uplifting and you just grin? ;D
Title: Re: Boys Wear Skirts to in Protest After School Fines TransGirl for Wearing Skirt
Post by: Shana-chan on September 29, 2014, 10:06:03 PM
Post by: Shana-chan on September 29, 2014, 10:06:03 PM
:)
Whelp, one of those girls just made a guy a bunny using her figures. I do the same thing sometimes. :)
Whelp, one of those girls just made a guy a bunny using her figures. I do the same thing sometimes. :)