Should Skirts Be Banned So As To Cater For Transgender Pupils?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4857064/Secondary-school-BANS-skirts-gender-neutral-uniform.html

/// 'Another issue was that we have a small but increasing number of transgender students and therefore having the same uniform is important for them.' ///

Amazing, can anyone remember any mention of transgender issues, say 18 months ago?

In fact I have just noticed that my spell checker does not even recognise the word.

[Mamyalynne]

//This Neutral Gender thing is going too far. Even John Lewis has entered into the stupidity. //

How is it stupid?

Instead of having 'Boys Clothes' and 'Girls Clothes' they now have 'Boys and Girls Clothes'.

Canny marketing if you ask me, and lovely ranges too.

[douglas9401]

Quite right. I can now raid my wife's wardrobe for a cardy without being embarrassed by the buttons being on the wrong side.

Freedom!

[Mamyalynne]

I've bought slippers and pyjamas in the past from so called menswear ranges, what's in a label?

[whiskeryron]

//.I would also hazard a guess that if you ask girls at school they would also prefer to wear trousers over skirts.//. I bet that would be rather hot.

[Mamyalynne]

Depends on the season, which is why I am against banning - allowing a choice is the happy medium in my opinion.

[Mamyalynne]

Oh - I missed a pun.

Very good, it's actually usually the other way round - skirts over trousers - once very popular.

[andres]

Seems a whole lot of trouble to go to considering the low number of transgender school children in the UK.

[DTCwordfan]

about time you upgraded your software, AOG, as to the spell checker....

[andres]

I think the word 'transgender' was coined in 1965/66.?Never heard of it before then.

[davegosling]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transgender

[DSJ]

Our skirts had to touch the floor when kneeling. It was an easy rule to monitor.

But this was an all girls school.

[Old_Geezer]

More annoying marketing than canny. Can't see many preferring to be shown a single group of clothes and having to sort out something suitable for their son or daughter instead of being shown the clothes designed for a particular gender and having no problem spotting what they want. Ideal way to get parents to visit a different store and not bother looking look at your stock at all.

[Old_Geezer]

A uniform levels nothing. Rich kids will have better quality and yearly renewals, poorer ones won't. It's obviously simply an excuse to dictate what another wears. So you failed to destroy any argument made.

[jourdain2]

Personally, I prefer to wear trousers mostly. You have to de-hair your legs more if you wear skirts! That was light-hearted, by the way. I was teaching in Halifax and Bradford and it was much easier to become a 'surrogate male'. So I got lots of separates. I wore a shortish, floaty dress about mid-August this year ( bought it because it was so bohemian and attracted me) and this was a pleasant sensation.

This is a silly decision by the school i.m.o.. Uniform definitions must include trousers and skirts and pupils' choice accepted. No problem. 'Trans' can wear skirts or trousers, depending on their choice. Can't see why the school did this t.b.h..

[Mamyalynne]

I'm pretty sure why they've done it, I feel all the rest is simply to muddy the waters by nor admitting they couldn't enforce the skirt length rule.

//Priory School, a mixed co-ed for pupils aged 11 to 16 in Lewes, East Sussex, said it also brought in the rule following 'complaints from parents about short skirts'.//

[EDDIE51]

Sunny Dave , you are forgetting the 'my dog hates fireworks' season which is due soon .