Little Girl Taken Out Of Christian School After Told She's Too Much Like A Boy

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[apostle_of_eris]

Remarkable how these God botherers never seem to stumble over the many, many verses telling them not to be assholes.

[evilnel]

Indeed!

[shortsweetcynic]

well isn't this some extra-special fuckery.

i hope she's happier wherever she ends up. she sounds like a lovely kid and it's the school's loss, not hers.

[nesmith]

As someone who grew up a tomboy (if I had a dollar for every time I got asked "Are you a boy or a girl?" I'd be fucking rich now) and still is, fuck this fucking school. Take your "biblical values" and shove them up your asses.

[deadsong]

I'm on the other end of the spectrum--I've always been pretty enough to have people confused about my gender (male), and I got hell for it in the Catholic school I went to for K-3 education. They forced my mother to cut my hair when I wanted it long, accused her of putting makeup on me because I have naturally pink lips and blush cheeks, etc. And I'm with you: fuck this fucking school, and every one like them.

[nesmith]

Your comment made me think of this:

[timbershiver]

Lol, I immediately thought of Jensen Ackles as well!

[shipperx]

If the Christian school is that stick-up-their-butt, she's probably far better off in Public School. These are the types that teach kids not to believe in science if it contradicts a compilation of 2000-5000+ year old oral mythologies that have then been translated multiple times into a different languages.

[policraticus]

If you don't like the school's dress code, don't send your child that school.

Simple.

The dress code wasn't a secret when they signed up and paid their money. Don't act all butt-hurt when the school enforces rules you signed up to follow. Don't make the school out to be the bad guy or pimp out your eight year old child to the media circus just because you think those rules are stupid. They may very well be stupid. When I was eight I had to wear a fucking tie to school. But then again, you were the one who sent her there. What does that make you?

[silver_apples]

The dress code says girls can wear slacks or skirts, and has nothing about hair length. The school thinks Sunni doesn't dress or act girlish enough. The rules do say they can refuse admission for "alternate gender identity", and apparently it is the school, not the student, who decides the student's gender identity.

[policraticus]

Again, the school's rules were there at the outset. Whatever her gender identity, the rules say she has to conform while at school to the school's rules. Plenty of girls at my school dressed according to the code while at school and like whores or "boys" after 3 PM. I, myself, dressed like a miniature Bible salesman from 8 AM - 3 PM then magically reverted to normal, slovenly, unkempt semi-human child afterwards.

I think the school is within their rights to ask this girl to dress and act according to their rules. I think the grandparents are within their rights to withdraw their child because they think those rules are stupid or harmful. What I think is wrong, deeply wrong, is putting this out there for the media to exploit and sensationalize. Or, to use her as a proxy for anyone's beefs with her school. This little girl deserves better. I hope she gets it.

[gothic_hamlet]

Please point out where exactly this clear and stated code is? Because "appear more female" is way too generic to be a dress code or anything that parents could know to conform to ahead of time. What is "girlish" to one person might not be the same to another - the school itself clearly doesn't think that skirts are required to be feminine since other girls are allowed to wear slacks. The issue is a combination of her appearance and her "boyish" behavior, which doesn't fall anywhere CLOSE to a dress code violation. Unless the school has a stated "no tomboys allowed" rule, they have no right to suggest that she leave, and good on the grandparents for calling them on their arbitrary decision.