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Nonsense like this is why I support school uniforms. Wear what you want on your own time. School, however, shouldn’t be the place for this stuff.

The rules should not be gender specific. If girls can wear anything that is permissible, boys should be able to as well. I have boy/girl twins, and I let my son wear a headband when he wanted to (b/c his sister was wearing one). My daughter insisted on being Diego for Halloween, and everyone thought it was cute, but I wonder what comments we would have received if our son wanted to be Dora? I don’t care. I think they can work that stuff out for themselves.

My son, age 3, loves to dress up as a princess. He has several princess-like dresses. He also likes to be a dino and Optimus Prime. When he goes to his friends’ houses, they often dress up because his friends are girls who have the entire line of Disney Princess dresses.
That said, I was glad when he chose to be a dino instead of a princess for Halloween. I didn’t have a problem with it at school, but trick or treating might have been a bit delicate.

For high school, I think I’d like to see uniforms. My neighbor was shot for wearing red pants to school. (Apparently, he looked a little too much like a rival gang member.) I would, however, support guys wearing skirts, as long as they didn’t do so for blatantly mocking purposes.

School uniforms won’t really solve this. Assuming it was a coed school with a boys’ uniform and a girls’ uniform. A boy could show up at school wear a skirt and top and still be in uniform.

I would sew a skirt for my son if he wanted it. What’s the big fat deal? As long as it is a skirt that would be permissible on a girl, why not on a boy? My grandmother wasn’t allowed to wear pants to school in her day. Thankfully, we finally realized a girl in pants is a danger to noone. Neither is a boy in a skirt. Big deal.

My daughter’s school has uniforms, and part of their dress code specifically states that children must be in “gender-appropriate” clothing.

So, yes – a well-written uniform dress-code policy would solve this. But so would any well-written dress-code policy.

Only correct answer capable of making the “appropriate dress” and equality problem go away is for a school to lay down a genderless uniform consisting of sensible pants and skirts or dresses with seasonal variations, then as long as students are wearing something from the list then they should look and feel ok! There is no reason why boys should not wear skirts, girls wear trousers and do not look like boys, if pants are an option then no one need feel uncomfortable!

Comments last summer I came out of the shower wrapped in a towle. My cousin remarked – nice legs and gave me a skirt and I put it on. Another guy showed up and soon founf himself in a skirt. We both wore skirts all weekend. We got some teasing but both of us still wear our skirt now and then… it is no big deal

I think I see the problem, but it is not enough to talk in a posting or forum. The problem could be solved when more parents, teachers and school administration would follow first the simple rule:
1. Be open what the child want, watching, talking and supporting. It does not help to keep on rules which are made only by adults, mostly parents and educators. They forgot one thing:
2. Every child is different and need a differently attention and support. Otherwise the child will be stereotyped and uniformed. To do that is mostly important during the age between 4-12. In this age we can see how a childgrows without pressure – if tere is no pressure from society-norms, schools and parents. A child knows much better than we can imagine what they like (likt to be also).

A question if a boy can wear a dress or skirt isn’t anymore important if you follow this little points because we are (the adults) going in the wrong direction to put cloth-styles into gender-signs. They are absolutely not related, but we are doing it, and it is really that what cares.
We, the adults have to work on that we call educate our kids.

Over the years, it was quite common for men to wear skirts, but that was required to change as a result of the equestrian movement, in which you couldn’t ride a horse wearing a skirt, it just wasn’t practical. Very few people still use horses as practical transportation, but the ‘uniform’ for riding horses has remained.

Comments Yes we must recogzine skirts and trousers as style differences and “activity differences” not gender distinctions. They would be gender distinctions IF the sexes were born dressed that way! To disallow males the preference of wearing skirts is little different than telling them there’s a range of foods they can’t eat. And in fact the hideous cult of invented sex differences DOES say “real men don’t eat quiche.” If you want your boy to look like a male, don’t offer him the use of wearing a bra—and DO encourage him to sport some facial hair when he’s able to sprout some. Treat everyone as sovereign individuals making their own, noncoerced decisions in clothes. We have long since started doing that regarding females. Now let us appropriately elbow our way past the seething zealots of religious misconceptions and the far worse Fascist :mental health professionals” identifying things as “transgendered” (skirts & fancy clothes in general) rather than simply “human.” By the way, short/long hair are gender associated habits but again, not sex differences. Short hair on men traces to military regulations centuries ago in Europe when head lice became a problem. It was easier to control with short hair, and in battle distractions could not be afforded. That’s why I’m toying with the idea of growing a pony tail and wearing a red ribbon to hold it together. But I may not get around to it–I have little time and short hair is easier to maintain. I will continue to wear facial hair along with skirts!

Illegal for boys to wear skirts? Which setting are you speaking of? The context of the discussion is school. It’s “hearsay” to say someone else told you thus and such. Boys wear skirts at Scottish and Greek festivals. Any attempt at arrest by authorities would be met with counter charges of cultural genocide; laws forbidding so-called “cross-dressing” have been routinely struck down in municipality after municipality and jurisdiction after jurisdiction. The State cannot dictate to citizens what they can or cannot wear other than that their personal areas must be covered. It may be a point of consternation to your sister that men can appear outdoors bare from the waist up, whereas SHE would be ARRESTED! Neither you nor she has any grasp of the public record on the subject. According to Eldon Scriven and Alton Harrison Jr. of Northern Illinois University in the Journal of Secondary Education, November 1970, “Student Dress Codes—Repressive Regulations of Questionable Legality” (Journal of Secondary Education, November 1970), page 292—”Do dress codes deprive students of their individual freedom and civil rights? We raise both a moral and a legal question. To us it seems wrong or immoral to impose certain dress standards on students. In principle, forced conformity to a uniform dress code is as unethical as forced intellectual conformity. As for the legality of dress codes, this is a question that will have to be answered by judicial interpretation, but it is our opinion that dress codes constitute a deprivation of civil rights and hence are illegal.” Brett, I suggest you and your obviously stupid sister acquaint yourselves with the equal protection portion of the 14th Amendment; start at Wikipedia. For extensive documentation on scholastic, church, judicial, employment, and societal prohibitions against women and girls in pants, see pdf file at http://www.dfwseekwoman.net

About the thing with men and skirts being “illigle” thats wrong, I am amarican, and my blood-line on all sides (exept a lost blood-line in my famaly, killed, had Japanies.) is Soctish, and Irrish, and men had to where skirts. No pants, (Well some elders who were no-longer warriors) if you did, it’s jail for a year.

Geeeeez people,get the stick out.We all should wear what we want,male or female.Some people are so sexist and are a hypocrite on clothing choice. Females have taken so much clothing styles and clothes from males and society doesnt say a word about it and like its ok.BUT..but a guy cant do the reverse,and wear female clothing. WHY ? and who is to judge why they do it.I say,dress the way you like for yourself,because the person next to you is dressing the way they like and not to please others. Keep the SKIRT on guys,its you like so live it,you only live once !

Here’s a question for a topic of discussion..”SHOULD GIRLS BE ALLOWED TO WEAR PANTS” ?….Say what ?? Yes i know….,arent both of these questions totally comical ? I thought we had a equal rights movement years ago ? Hum…..Rights for who ? Were males included in this ? If so,by using this logic,that “women are equal to men”.,then “men are equal to women”.. *females wear alot of guy stuff already),,so then men should be able to wear clothes that females wear..and not be called names or pionted at and etc…RIGHT ? But why is that ?? When we see a girl wearing guy clothes,we say things like this >, “cute” or shes a “tomboy” ,but none of those type of phrases are for men ? I think that it should be a faiplay of 50/50 for both sides…So guys,wear what YOU want and like,,,,so dont worry able what people say or think.Your dressing for YOU and not THEM….