Requiring Female Students To Wear Skirts In UK Schools May Soon Be Illegal?
by: Autumn Sandeen
Mon Feb 22, 2010 at 11:00:00 AM EST
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/15288/requiring-female-students-to-wear-skirts-in-uk-schools-may-soon-be-illegal (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/15288/requiring-female-students-to-wear-skirts-in-uk-schools-may-soon-be-illegal)
So, the requirement to wear skirts at UK schools may end, but skirts won't likely be banned. So, skirts optional, apparently.
And, this isn't being discussed in terms of discrimination against cissexual female students, but in terms of discrimination against trans male students. It's interesting that trans students would be the reason skirts may be made illegal in UK schools, to say the least.
This issue, sadly, is being blown up into something it isn't.
What it is, is the issue of forcing girls to wear skirts.
Harriet harman is the Deputy Prime Minister and well known as a chanpaign socialist, an idealist, and a feminist in the pro-women, 1970s mold.
She is know in the UK as Harriet Harperson.
The connection with transgendered males is entirely cooked up by the press, which, in accordance with UK custom, just prior to a long awaited General Election, is taking every opportunity to make silly and often irreverent attacks on members of the government. Also, to a lesser extent, members of the opposition.
I wish we could say that the issue of transgendered males in schools has been highlighed here. Sadly, the issue is simply being used to make fun of Harman. (sorry, Harperson).
On a slightly more positive note however, the TG issue in schools has been brought up for the first time. Discussing children and sexual matters is generally taboo in Europe. We can only hope that, after the election, especially if the Parliment is hung, the issue will be discussed more positively.
As someone who was once a young boy, having to attend school as a boy, longing to be a girl, to play with the girls and not be forced to take on male oriented roles, I can only hope that the suffering and anguish of so many other young boys, afraid to even tell anyone about their feelings, will finally be near an end.