Virginia school district ponders banning cross-gender dress - Polidicks

[quote]A Virginia school district is considering banning cross-gender dressing in a move proponents said aims to protect students from harassment[/quote] Yeah lets protect them from harrassment by harrassing them. [QUOTE=Swilly;34664321]Actually, its pretty common to tie gender with sex.[/QUOTE] Gender and Sex has nothing to do with eachother, please take a basic psychology course before posting again. It's pretty common to tie black people with crime, germans with nazism, jews with taking your money, etc. Does that make it correct?

[QUOTE=Crimor;34668976] Gender and Sex has nothing to do with eachother, please take a basic psychology course before posting again. [/QUOTE] lmao. all he did was point out that the lack of distinction between sex and gender is common, which is absolutely correct

[QUOTE=MightyMax;34667987]My school banned gender bender day during spirit week because a lot of guys wore very... [I]very[/I] convincing costumes :v:[/QUOTE] Opposite day at my school always ended up becoming androgyny day which I was fine with

[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;34663683]I don't think these morons know the difference of gender and sex.[/QUOTE] You're starting on that again? :rolleyes:

[QUOTE=RobbL;34669292]You're starting on that again? :rolleyes:[/QUOTE] he has good intentions but totally jumped the gun

[QUOTE=Crimor;34668976]Gender and Sex has nothing to do with eachother, please take a basic psychology course before posting again.[/QUOTE] The lack of an ability to read properly seems to be common on your parts.

[QUOTE=WolvesSoulZ;34669504]The lack of an ability to read properly seems to be common on your parts.[/QUOTE] He could have meant it in two ways, for idiots to tie them together, or for psychologists/the state tying them together. With the people these threads attract it's usually the latter.

[QUOTE=Bryanrocks0;34663386]Johnny, why must our state be so backwards sometimes?[/QUOTE] Well, it's not really the state. Only a school district. Fuck them I'm not from there lol.

Virginia is pretty shit. But at least we aren't West Virginia.

[QUOTE=Omali;34663926]Because it's how they push through rules to legalize discrimination. It's like the reasoning behind Don't Ask Don't Tell, "We just want our troops to be safe, so we're not saying you're not allowed to be gay, we just don't want to know about it because penises are yucky and I heard openly gay people sparkle like Edward and it will give away our troops on night missions." Or think about white people you know who have no problem with black people in the schools as long as they "don't act too black." My school had three black people in it, and one of my friend's parents claimed it was too many.[/QUOTE] Technically speaking it's not discrimination in this case. Also in a lot of places with a dresscode similar things are in place. [QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;34667948]Now I kinda hope this passes, with the document saying gender and [I]not[/I] sex. Then when someone with GD exploits this and gets in trouble, he/she can sue the school and use the damages to fund their medication / operation. :v:[/QUOTE] Last I heard they moved away from the Gender and Sex disambiguation and instead are using primary and secondary gender. Or physical and social. It also depends. In a lot of cases a judge would shoot it down on due to the spirit of ordnance as opposed to direct wording. Since in a case like this ferenda is probably stronger than lata.

Typical southern, judgmental state. Fuck this.

"bullying might start" That should never be an excuse to ban something. I'm sure a highschooler can accept that risk themselves. Let them do what they want, you may be surprised at how much happier they are.

This might be a good thing, there must be lots of boys pretending to be girls just to go in the girl's washroom an that is wrong. We shouldn't take any chances.

What if you're agendered/genderless/neutrois?

[QUOTE=Upgrade123;34672945]What if you're agendered/genderless/neutrois?[/QUOTE] You have to go to school naked.

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;34672219]This might be a good thing, there must be lots of boys pretending to be girls just to go in the girl's washroom an that is wrong. We shouldn't take any chances.[/QUOTE] Would you ban binoculars because some voyeurs are using them to peep at women from a distance ?

[QUOTE=wraithcat;34670203]It also depends. In a lot of cases a judge would shoot it down on due to the spirit of ordnance as opposed to direct wording. Since in a case like this ferenda is probably stronger than lata.[/QUOTE] I doubt it, in legal issues wording is very important. That's how people exploit loopholes.

[QUOTE=Bryanrocks0;34663386][url]http://www.wtkr.com/news/nationworld/sns-rt-us-virginia-clothing-gendertre81a0p7-20120211,0,3352389.story[/url] Johnny, why must our state be so backwards sometimes?[/QUOTE] I don't know... I don't know

Good thing I live in Canada.

[QUOTE=Miskav;34664393]Still moronic.[/QUOTE] That's what I meant?

That's just fucking stupid.

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;34672219]This might be a good thing, there must be lots of boys pretending to be girls just to go in the girl's washroom an that is wrong. We shouldn't take any chances.[/QUOTE] Yep, that's the reason why someone would crossdress, not at all to match their gender identity or just as a choice in clothing /sarcasm