Is "Gender Bender Day" Bad for Transgender and Queer Students? Arryn Tyler Speaks.
http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2010/10/22/transgender/ (http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2010/10/22/transgender/)
carolyn castiglia
10/22/10
71st High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina held its annual "Gender Bender Day" yesterday as a part of Spirit Week, an apparently popular school tradition wherein boys and girls dress like the opposite sex, based in football and cheerleading culture. The practice is meant to bolster school spirit, but by the end of the day yesterday, morale had plummeted after the arrest of a female student, who gave her principal the finger and was then tackled by a police officer.
The scuffle began when the school's principal, Vanessa Alford, told some 600 students they were dressed "inappropriately" for Gender Bender Day, and that they'd have to go home and change. Arryn Tyler, a 17-year-old junior, "walked to the front of the auditorium and had words with the principal," according to ABC affiliate WTVD in Raleigh-Durham. While at the front of the room, Tyler was grabbed from behind by a sheriff's deputy, and she admits to kicking him. The 300-pound officer then "fell on her, causing her to scrape her head and knee."
This is a very curious story.
On the face of it, a school holds a gendr bender day when students are suppose to dress in charatures of the opposite sex.
http://cheerleading.lovetoknow.com/Spirit_Week_Gender_Bender_Day (http://cheerleading.lovetoknow.com/Spirit_Week_Gender_Bender_Day)
Some students, apparently, didn't quite live up to the principal's expectations. So this proncipal calls an assemby to which she also invites a sherriff's deputy. There, one student, protests and raises her middle finger. A clear matter of insubordination. For this she is arrested and charged.
What was a sherriff's deputy doing in a school assembly?
Why would a child be arrested for being insubordinate to a teacher?
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7738541 (http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7738541)
http://jezebel.com/5670645/gender-bender-day-lands-kid-in-hospital (http://jezebel.com/5670645/gender-bender-day-lands-kid-in-hospital)