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2011Public School Crossdressing Day
Item from the local paper:
“The student council at King City Public School thought a great way to celebrate “school spirit” day would be for the boys to dress like girls and the girls to dress like boys. But what began as an offbeat suggestion for a fun day quickly became fodder for an intense debate over family values, the psychological implications of cross-dressing and whether gender identity politics were being forced on young minds.”
Once this event came to the attention of a certain Reverend, who is described as “a staunch social conservative who has expressed concerns in the past about a “homosexual agenda” in the school system” it became a whole brouhaha over gender politics in the schools, and was quickly withdrawn, despite the principal’s insistence that it was the students’ idea.
I’m not sure where I come down on this one, but I am sure that some of the comments on this story illustrate how much ignorance and hatred still percolates below the surface in our society, even in more “enlightened” locales. It is not so much the actual words but the underlying sentiments that worry me.
A few examples to suffice:
- “Boys are boys and girls are girls – the riduculous left-wing notion that “gender is a fluid social construct” must be destroyed.”
- “Perversion is mistaken sexual identity, and cross-dressing is mistaken sexual identity, so to think the one would have no effect on the other is a little bit non-credible… One who favors cross-dressing among impressionable school kids is supportive of much more than he may think he is. It is not innocent fun, and it had to have the support of not so “innocent” teachers to have been adopted as what would be the major learning experience of a day.”
- “I think it’s wrong for the school to force these kids to be gay. Think of the children!”
- “First – a confession. Homosexuals creep me out – especially fudge packers, so I certainly have no “gay agenda”. The adults who stupidly got involved in a bit of harmless pre-pubescent fun should seek professional help. Besides making asses of themselves, they have sent a message to the children that stuff like that is really, really important. a non-existent issue has become important purely because of their domineering correctness. Arghhh!”
Now it’s your turn. What say you?
Shirley Corning
Excuse me a minute while I puke. Ok. I’m back. It’s stinkin’ thinkin’, ignorance, hatred, fear, Victoria era concepts, paranoia and closed minds. They think they’re right and good luck trying to get them to concede on a single point. These particular people are hardly below the surface. The subject came up and they are shouting their opinions from the roof tops. These people aren’t hiding and you can tell right away by the dirty looks on their faces when they perceive you to be one of “those”.
I’m happy to report from my expeience of just over two decades of dealing with the public and coworkers at three different companies each with a few hundred employees who lived peacefully with what I wore and what I was each work day that the ones that begrudge you your girlishness are few and far between. I’ve only met five in all that time out of all those people. I am so very thankful the majority of the American population today just doesn’t care what you are as long as your not breaking the law or hurting anyone. In fact the majority aren’t interested in details about the LGBT communities and don’t even want to hear it unless the story is news worthy or entertaining or it directly concerns family or friends. There aren’t many outside our community who educate themselves about us either.
Look on the bright side. Things are much better today than they were just a few decades ago when you could be beaten or killed if you were caught going girly anywhere. A lot of progress has been made since then and there’s more to be gained in the future. While it’s good to be aware there are grinches out there I don’t think you need to worry that much. If you happen to run into one use your head and deal with them as you see fit. Most of them wont doing anything to you other than give you that dirty look and don’t want to talk or say anything to you unless provoked. Of course I’m not planning to go skipping into a biker bar in a nice spring dress either.
So there’s what I know from my experience and the rest is just my opnion.
Hope that helps,
Shirley
trish1700
I will try to keep it simple and use a very crude example. I was at a 99 restaurant yesterday. It is an upscale hamburger chain. They list the ways you can have your burger cooked, rare, med–rare, med-well, well, very well, etc.. In other words “different strokes for different folks” when it comes to personal tastes. In life some women are VERY feminine and some men are VERY male. Thank goodness most of us are a delicious blend some were in between. The sad fact is that not only is it acceptable for women to show masculine traits in manner and dress, it is admired. Men who stray toward the feminine side are seen as weak and in need of some sort of therapy