Fury as teenager is 'expelled' from school for deciding he wanted to dress like a girl

Jan 12 2012 Exclusive by Janice Burns

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2012/01/12/fury-as-teenager-is-expelled-from-school-for-deciding-he-wanted-to-dress-like-a-girl-86908-23695000/

A SCHOOLBOY yesterday claimed he was sent home from class for dressing as a girl.

Sixth-former Jamie Love, 17, was left humiliated and in tears after he arrived wearing tights, shorts, hair extensions and make-up – only to be ordered to leave.

Jamie, who asked schoolmates to call him Keirny, says he has been speaking to teachers for months about how he felt trapped in a boy's body.

Not the first varianted person to be kicked out for his/her expression.
As many will remember, the same dilemma also, amongst others, happened to the Crossdresser Jonathan Escobar: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/jonathan-escobar-cross-dr_n_311791.html

It's wrong, we all know that. But we also all know that the reactionaries in N America, especially, don't seem to have any morality or scruples when it comes to pursuing their claims.

Yeah, those stupid people in the United States, wait: Govan High in Glasgow.  Oh, never mind.

Ah Glasgow. It's about 10 minutes from my birthplace. I miss my hometown....
Anyways, Anyone notice that she talking about her Sexuality and not Gender expression?

Jamie Love, 17, Claims School Expelled Him For Wearing Women's Clothes, Wins Fight To Return
Girl Clothes

The Huffington Post   Laura Hibbard
First Posted: 1/13/12 05:22 PM ET Updated: 1/14/12 05:53 PM ET

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/jamie-love-17-claims-school-expelled-him-for-dressing-like-a-girl_n_1204698.html

Jamie Love, a 17-year-old high school student who was allegedly expelled for wearing women's clothes, has won his fight to return to school, the Scottish Daily Record reports.

[...]

Officials at Govan High School reversed the expulsion last night, and a spokesperson told the Daily Record that Love's choice of dress was never the issue.

"We welcome Jamie's assurances to commit to his education ... Jamie's choice of clothing has never been an issue ... so he can come to school dressed as a girl if he wants to," the spokesperson told the paper. "However, it's important that we put measures in place to accommodate this decision and the school would like to meet him and his mother."

Excessive drama in reporting, naturally: being sent home is in no way the same as "being expelled."

Teenager 'sent home from school after he turned up dressed in women's clothing'

    Govan High School denies the pupil was thrown out because of his decision to dress as a girl

By Larisa Brown
Last updated at 2:06 PM on 16th January 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085856/Jamie-Love-17-sent-home-Govan-High-School-wearing-womens-clothing.html

A teenage boy claims he was thrown out from a notoriously rough high school after turning up to class dressed as a girl.

Jamie Love, 17, arrived at Govan High School wearing tights, mini-shorts, a high-waisted belt, hair extensions and make-up - shortly before he was ordered to leave.

Jamie, a dancer, who asked schoolmates to call him Keirny, claims he was speaking to teachers for months about how he felt trapped in a boy's body.

Quote from: Padma on January 15, 2012, 11:17:45 AM
Excessive drama in reporting, naturally: being sent home is in no way the same as "being expelled."

I think the line from the original article,

"They told me to get my stuff and not come back."

reads as if he were expelled or suspended.

Keirny is due an official and public apology.

I thought 'suspended' would have been more accurate.

It's weird how no-one wants to call her she, neither in the articles nor in this topic.

We always need to be really careful with these stories. The information we have is always limited and what is left out is invariably more significant than what is given.

It seems very strange that, given the amount of high profile tolerance toward transgender in Scotland, coupled with the tendency of Scots to be quite lawful, in a personality fashion, that this should have happened at all.

The temptation is to say, the young person was being provocative and ended up being excluded from school.

The authorities are exhibiting their traditional intolerance, of which I and many others have first hand knowledge, acting true to form.

As Padma says, the reporting is excessively dramatic. But we just don't know.

Wonder if anyone who still lives in that part of the world could give us some indication of current attitudes to transgender?

Quote from: Padma on January 20, 2012, 11:48:13 AM
I thought 'suspended' would have been more accurate.

It's weird how no-one wants to call her she, neither in the articles nor in this topic.

I took the cue from his mother:

Mum Alison said last night: "Jamie has done nothing wrong here.

"He has every right to express himself the way he wants and I will stand by him.

... but I avoided the pronoun.

We always need to be really careful with these stories. The information we have is always limited and what is left out is invariably more significant than what is given.

I guess if it's somewhere other than the States that is, otherwise...

It's wrong, we all know that. But we also all know that the reactionaries in N America, especially, don't seem to have any morality or scruples when it comes to pursuing their claims.

I didn't mean to finger-point about the gender thing, I was just observing that in spite of the fact that Kierney had been telling everyone for months that she'd chosen a girl's name and felt trapped in a boy's body, everyone reported in all the articles, and all the journalists, have called her "he", and so of course we have too. I don't know for sure she wants to be called she, but I'm willing to guess she'd prefer it, given all she's reported to have said and done.