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Buchanan High Academy chief Patrick Smart wore a dress for the aboriginal time aftermost week.
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His classmate, Emma Sledd, wore a collared men’s shirt to school.
“The acumen we switched gender norms for the day was to accomplish the account that what we abrasion does not ascertain us as students,” Sledd said. “Our district’s dress cipher should not favor or discriminate any gender.
“We acquire anybody should be able to accurate themselves equally. A boy with continued beard is no beneath of a adamantine artisan than a babe with continued hair.”
Sledd and Smart are amid a scattering of accepting beyond the commune agitation Clovis Unified’s austere dress code, which the academy lath is abnegation to change in the face of apropos that it’s arbitrary to all genders.
["400px"]The commune already is animating itself for a acknowledged action with the American Civil Liberties Union, which has taken it to cloister over the dress cipher in the past.
In a abruptness vote aftermost week, advisers went adjoin recommendations that would acquire accustomed boys to abrasion continued beard and earrings and removed accent that says dresses and skirts are for girls. The decades-old action anon violates accompaniment apprenticeship code, according to the ACLU.
A apprentice address advancement the lath to acquire a gender-neutral dress cipher had garnered about 2,500 signatures by Monday.
“When today’s youths don’t acquire a way to accurate who they are, they may aloof become addition accomplishment in suicide rates,” Smart said. “CUSD can’t stop bodies from cogent themselves.”
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Kristen Van Orden, a green at Clovis North, is planning to ability out to Clovis Unified advisers about the amount herself, and said this is about added than appearance sense.
“Boys deserve to accurate their animal acclimatization and gender character through clothing, whether it’s the acceptable boy attending or a added feminine look,” she said. “Clothing shouldn’t actuate a person’s education.”
CUSD can’t stop bodies from cogent themselves.
Patrick Smart, Buchanan High senior
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No boys at Buchanan High were acclimatized for cutting dresses in class. Sophia Brodish, a green at Buchanan, wore a shirt to academy that’s aural the banned of the dress cipher policy, but wrote “dress cipher sucks” in bubble colors beyond the back. She was accounting up, as she expected, but said it was account it.
“We alive in a burghal area the LGBTQA association is actual basal and unaccepted,” she said. “By accepting the dress cipher to become gender neutral, we are starting to arch the gap of accepting and unacceptance,” she said.
“High academy is difficult as it is, and it’s adamantine to acquire yourself during this period. … How could a commune that is aggravating to accord kids an apprenticeship not acquiesce us to be who we are? How could they not see that we are angry for article we acquire in? They are putting bottomward our abandon of speech.”
While transgender rights acquire become a allotment of the dress-code altercation – with Clovis Unified Trustee Richard Lake adage “a woman’s a woman and a man’s a man, and there’s a difference” – commune backer Kelly Avants said those accepting are adequate admitting the policy’s language.
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“If a apprentice has appear to the administration, we’ll assignment with them to accomplish abiding that they acquire an ambiance on campus that allows them to accurate themselves with the gender in which they identify,” Avants said.
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