In Suffolk, Virginia, the school district is considering banning cross-gender dressing in students, in order to help protect students from bullying and harassment. The board addressing this issue decided to pursue the ban after teachers noticed "some male students were dressing like girls," and received complaints from other students. Board member say that this has nothing to do with gender discrimination, but to protect students after relatively recent suicides of other children who were harassed. The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia called the ban unconstitutional, calling the ban " vague and sexually discriminating". James Parrish, executive director of Equality Virginia, brought up the point of educating the students. He suggested that that not only the students be educated on lesbian, gay, and transgendered students, but he called for district administrators to be more educated as well.
As a leading question, I guess I would have to ask, is there value in this ban, or do you agree with the ACLU that it's unconstitutional? Would it help to educate the authority figures first, and then focus on the youth?
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