Boy, 12, wears skirt to school in protest

May 11th, 2011 by | Permalink

A male student has caused controversy by wearing a skirt to school in protest against uniform rules.

Chris Whitehead, 12, wears a skirt in protest of school dress code. Screen shot via BBC News.

Chris Whitehead, 12, borrowed his 11 year old sister Joanna’s uniform to attend Impington Village College today, in the hope of gaining support for his protest. Chris is unhappy that during the Summer female students can wear a skirt, but male students are not allowed to wear shorts, and must remain in long trousers. The rules do not prevent males from wearing skirts, however.

According to Sky News, a round 30 of Chris’ classmates joined in the protest, waving banners stating “Shorts for the long term”, “Cool Shorts not Hot Pants” and “What’s Wrong With My Legs?”.

Chris, an aspiring politician, has set up the protest to persuade headteacher Robert Campbell to change the rule, which was created during a uniform consultation in 2009. Chris’ mum is supporting his campaign.

The schools head teacher, Robert Campbell, commented that the decision had caused debate previously.

“Ultimately, boys can wear a skirt to school because it doesn’t say they can’t in the uniform policy and we would be discriminating against them if we did not allow it.

Chris is a very bright and articulate student and we have got a very strong student council. He is one of only two year eight pupils on it.”

Chris has stated he will continue to wear the outfit.

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  • http://None Ted McEvoy

    Congratulations boys,keep on wearing skirts. Women everywhere are weariing our trousers.I have been wearing a skirt for the last 6 years in protest against having to wear wonens trousers.Let us spraed the good news and continue the campaign.I am a male aged 74 and the only one in Preston Lancs so far. All the ancient world was conquered by men wearing skirts ie Romans Geeeks Egyptions etc.Adolf hitler lost, I wonder why ?

  • Tern

    Why skirts have not stopped being gender specific even when many other items have, is the strong fear of counting as indecent in them, from the important deficiency in their shape. Men, unless they have tried one on, don’t realise how easy that is to get wrong, how much posture care it makes necessary. That was part of women’s oppression, but now the law will let women off accidents it won’t let men off.

    A gender equal boundary of decency could be easier to force into existence by trying to ban skirts, and seeing whether they are defended against leg divided alternatives on grounds of any biological need. (I find it a logical challenge that skirt wearers of both genders usually seem to only want the length that is guided by fashion rather than want to wear all sorts of lengths).

    But you don’t want any attempted ban to hit folks who are being discriminatorily oppressed out of exercising the alternative they want, as is the case here. Schoolboys have been suffering this leg discrimination for 40 years and until the discrimination loophole existed enabling the action by this boy and by his predecessor in 2006, nobody ever said a word about it. All too socially scared of the mob.

    Now, here is an important fact. This would not still be happening, school uniforms would not stil be happening, for years past, if the big autism organisations had done their ethical duty and spoken out about “sensory issues”. I know this story is not about autism, but the spectrum of autism and attention deficit is the source of the medical proof that all dress codes and uniforms are genocide. A proof which applies to everyone, not just the folks with those conditions, necause all may have different types of “sensory issues”. It is as part of these conditions that strong skin sensitivity against fabric, and heat sensitivity that accompanies active metabolism, are known to exist. From which it follows, folks who are soldily biologically real human minorities suffer an assault on the wellbeing of their bodies if made to wear costumes that are wrong for their sensitivities, that affect their senses and their skin. All telling folks what to wear is an assault on the bodily wellbeing of bioligically real minority groups and suppression of their openly manifested existence. Hence it fits witthin the definition of genocide in international law.

    This has already been known against uniforms for years. btw I was also always a victim of long trousers uniforms from as early as 8 while boys in other places at the same time were equally inappropriately suffering the opposite!!! I have the first 2 conditions mentioned and as an adult I have had my sensory right of wellbeing to always wear shorts defended in the supported employment sector. That is on medical wellbeing grounds. Now if that has actually happened for an adult, then continued existence of any dress codes for kids is knowingly an assault and abuse upon them. My write-up on it, published in issue 66 of Asperger United only in April, I offer as supporting evidence in any resistance to the legality of school uniforms. I hate them heart and soul and to make any contribution to smashing them gives meaning to life.

  • john

    I KNOW THAT ID HAVE LOVED THE OPPORTUNITY TO WEAR A SKIRT TO SCHOOL WHEN I WAS YOUNGER AS TO ME THEY LOOK SO SMART,SO WHY CANT FASHION DESIGNERS PUSH THE MORE FEM STYLE LOOKS FOR MEN EVEN IF THEY DID IT IN THE KILT STYLE FORM TO START OFF WITH….

  • http://www.dfwseekwoman.net Charles

    The trouser skirt division of the sexes has been repudiated by women insofar as the concept would restrict them. Men also should repudiate it and act as individuals rather than robots in a collective. Horseback riding was the overwhelming cause of men wearing pants. Now that the main cause is gone, the “clinically normative mental health professional” (conformist racketeer) wants us to be stuck with pants and invented such trash terms as “cross dressing” to stop us having choices. Evidently women can’t cross dress because they are hermaphrodites! If you don’t like that explanation—try this one—people aren’t on an agenda to stop women having choices, therefore, they never call them cross dressed for wearing any form of attire. The mental “health” (“social conformity = absence of disease”) cult enforces the status quo; it does NOT promote “health.”