Reply to: Boys forced to wear skirts

[NotAllThere]

Yes, you are. And stupid with it. Not an attractive combination. Feel free to take your venom elsewhere.

[SueEllen]

Didn't we do this whole thing last year?

I'm sure we found stories with photos of Spanish coach drivers and various school boys from around the UK who where banned from wearing shorts, so they all turned up in skirts in accordance with their uniform policies?

[Jog On]

The school dress code.

The whole hoo hah arose because a new dress code was imposed of long trousers or skirts. When the head teacher was asked if that meant boys could wear skirts if they chose, she said yes.

The school dress code decided against shorts. Whether you agree or not, the idea is that smart dressing is more conducive to an educational environment. It was deemed that shorts are not smart.

This has precisely zero to do with transgender, right-on politics or virtue signalling, except it was seen that banning boys from wearing skirts could lead to snowflake activists getting hot under the collar.

And boys in skirts are?

The move was part of a government-funded drive to make uniform polices more sensitive to transgender children.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...kirts-12644985

[mudskipper]

None of my kids secondary schools allowed shorts. It's not a new thing.

Of course, if the boys wanted to make a point, they could probably get agreement for shorts as these Swedish train drivers did.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22828150

[NotAllThere]

Seriously, what is to stop girls from wearing shorts if they wish?

The school dress code.

Or have I missed the whole point of the hoo hah, if the offence arose in the first place by banning girls from wearing shorts

The whole hoo hah arose because a new dress code was imposed of long trousers or skirts. When the head teacher was asked if that meant boys could wear skirts if they chose, she said yes.

i don't understand why they felt they need to ban shorts at all.

The school dress code decided against shorts. Whether you agree or not, the idea is that smart dressing is more conducive to an educational environment. It was deemed that shorts are not smart.

This has precisely zero to do with transgender, right-on politics or virtue signalling, except it was seen that banning boys from wearing skirts could lead to snowflake activists getting hot under the collar.

[Jog On]

Feck me, it's a cretin wank-fest.

Don't know how you do it but you outdo yourself every post. How do you manage to keep upping your game like that?

[sasguru]

Oh. My. God.

Transgendered people do not need a reason to be offended - you are just such an ignorant straight white privileged male.

That is NOT OK!!

You need to take that down before I sentence you to public shaming...

It is not up to you to decide what is ok - you privileged patriarchal rapist.

[So what you're saying is] My only hope is for the right sort of person to get offended on my behalf and virtue signal for me?

Feck me, it's a cretin wank-fest.

[Jog On]

It is not up to you to decide what is ok - you privileged patriarchal rapist.

[So what you're saying is] My only hope is for the right sort of person to get offended on my behalf and virtue signal for me?

[original PM]

That is NOT OK!!

You need to take that down before I sentence you to public shaming...

It is not up to you to decide what is ok - you privileged patriarchal rapist.

[Jog On]

Oh. My. God.

Transgendered people do not need a reason to be offended - you are just such an ignorant straight white privileged male.

That is NOT OK!!

You need to take that down before I sentence you to public shaming...

[original PM]

i don't understand why they felt they need to ban shorts at all. What's wrong with trousers, skirts and shorts in Summer? How does that offend transgender people?

Oh. My. God.

Transgendered people do not need a reason to be offended - you are just such an ignorant straight white privileged male.

[Jog On]

Uniform at one of my schools was knickerbockers (that posh school in Knightsbridge) - or shorts, but girls could wear skirts if they wanted.

[Jog On]

Seriously, what is to stop girls from wearing shorts if they wish?

That way TS pupils, of either sex, having the choice of either shorts or a skirt, couldn't justly claim they were being discriminated against, whatever they wore.

i don't understand why they felt they need to ban shorts at all. What's wrong with trousers, skirts and shorts in Summer? How does that offend transgender people?

[OwlHoot]

.. but banning shorts to accommodate transgenders is triggerable ..

Seriously, what is to stop girls from wearing shorts if they wish?

That way TS pupils, of either sex, having the choice of either shorts or a skirt, couldn't justly claim they were being discriminated against, whatever they wore.

edit: Or have I missed the whole point of the hoo hah, if the offence arose in the first place by banning girls from wearing shorts and/or TSs from wearing skirts ?!

God, it was all so much simpler 50 years ago!

[Jog On]

always good to wind up some gammon faces

True - it takes more than *rexit and house prices to keep this lot busy. If drama gets in too short supply they go looking for it .