Sarie Weaving

Possibly you haven’t experienced a teenager who expresses her feminity by hitching her school skirt up to her chin and walks down the drive looking beyond inappropriate. You don’t stop being a girl when you wear trousers!

You miss the point. Taking away skirts to prevent girls from being inappropriate is not what they are trying to achieve here. Why take away feminity from girls to benefit the few. It is backward thinking.

But that is my point. They dont need to ‘be feminine’ they need to be children. They can just be themselves in trousers.

So at what point do girls learn when to wear skirts and be respectful with it? It’s part of growing up and learning etiquette and dress codes. That should happen in school.

They dont live at school, school is for being a kid and learning. I dont care if they wear skirts or not, if they are a decent length. Uniform is designed to minimise differences, so poor kids aren’t ostracised for wearing less cool or expensive gear & to avoid sexualisation.

Nonsense. Trousers have been acceptable wear for women since 1930s. It WOULD be better if they let boys have the same choices as girls, but imagine the uproar. So this is the solution. Society has 'reached this point' because we acknowledge transgenderism now.

But surely you can acknowledge transgenderism and still let girls wear skirts. Seems like an unfair compromise?

But by acknowledging it, either you allow the boys who feel female to wear skirts, which would send people into a frenzy, or - quite wisely, seeing as girls DO wear trousers, after all - decided all must wear trousers. Would you prefer both sexes must wear skirts?

I’d prefer girls to have the option. If we can give such an option as freedom to choose gender, then surely the freedom to choose to wear a skirt or trousers is sense.

Yes, but then you'd have to extend it to the boys, too. I think that would cause far greater public anger, don't you?

We need to treat mental illness not accommodate for it

It's a physical condition, apparently, which comes about when the brain, in the second stage of gender ID, gets it wrong and tells the person the opposite gender to the body. They used to think being gay was a mental illness, too.

It still is

OK, well, I believe homophobia is a mental illness. Goodbye.

Not homophobic my sister is gay still love her have friends that are gay still don't mean there not fucked in the head

You'e got no reason to think that other than it's 'other' to you. Might as well say people who can't have kids are mentally ill or people who are vegetarian or religious or atheist.