Teen boys donned dresses and teen girls wore men's clothes in Clovis, CA, in protest of rules upheld by the local school board dictating a dress code.
The Clovis Unified school board voted to maintain a decade-long outline that specifically states dresses are solely worn by women and girls, and forbids boys from having long hair and earrings. The students argue this stance is discriminatory against many, including those who are transgender, and intend to fight the decision by dressing however they please, as this photo shows:
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Clovis Unified Trustee Richard Lake is quoted as saying, "a woman's a woman and a man's a man, and there's a difference."
He's right! Men have testes and women have ovaries! I just looked it up! Some people even have both sex organs! Look up endocrinology if you're bored sometime. It's an extensive world regarding the vast complexities of hormones.
But that doesn't explain why clothes--which are simply just sewn pieces of fabric assigned social codes--somehow dictate who's a man and who's a woman. Clothes are only defined by the standards and mores individuals and society levy upon the inanimate objects that woven fabric actually is. It's not a difficult concept.
The silliest thing about all of this?
In order to "swap" genders, all the Clovis students somehow dressed like the cast of an early 1990's romantic comedy. If you squint closely, I swear Ethan Hawke and Janeane Garfalo are in the photo above.
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