Know Your Rights: School Dress Codes

Today on the show we're explaining your rights with school dress codes for LGBTQ kids.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Sexual Orientations
2:50 Gender Identities
4:54 Special Events
6:59 Self Expression
8:35 What if They Break the Law?

[hunter]

I got dress coded on a free dress day, (usually uniform) for a “weirdly fitting shirt”. I have pretty bad scoliosis, so of course it’s gonna fit funny! My back is funny! Like come on 😂

[brendaleetv]

I did not know, that there was some laws, about this. Back in my school days in the 80s, when I registered for my senior yr, I had long hair, and the principal told me to cut my hair, since I was a boy, and boys have short hair, so I pointed to a girl that had short hair, I told him that he should send her home since she had short hair and that long hair is only for girls. He told me that women can have any type of hair style, but not for boys. Wow! So I had to go home and cut it.

[johnnystardust]

Thank you, professor pride. I’m a cis man from Colombia who always got dress coded for having long hair. The instant I graduated, I grew out my hair. I could never understand why males couldn’t have long hair.

[yohanrives]

I don't even understand how hair length can be up for debate as it is a question of a person's integrity

[talzerrie]

My school is very homophobic and transphobic. what’s ironic is that half the school is LGBTQ+ lmao

But seriously thanks. There is a school dance coming up and I was trying to decide whether to wear a dress or tux. I was afraid the school wouldn’t allow it but now that I know this I think I’m going to wear the tux.

[marissamoyer]

I was in a private school most of my childhood education. I'm a straight girl and the school tried to force me to wear a skirt. Made no sense when the dress code allowed for girls to wear pants.
Long and short of it, people should be able to wear what they are comfortable in wearing regardless of how they identify.

[rowanzephyr]

We went on a school field trip to this camp and they allowed boys to be SHIRTLESS to swim but girls couldn't show midriffs. It was a super sexist rule and I knew several girls/afab kids who had to buy entirely new swimsuits. I had to wear a rash guard over my favorite swimsuit cuz of this.

[SynthieTV]

“Have a gay day everyone and Bi for now”

[GoGo-]

I can't wait to show this to my parents because we've been wondering if I'll be able to wear dresses and skirts this year, thanks so much for making this video!

[iultimatecartoon]

honestly I wish School could teach LGBT history instead of just the same stuff that they always be teaching kids

[Cttn_Eyd_J]

Currently going through a movement at my high school to fix the dress code ! We got to our 1, 000 signatures goal on the petition and we'll be doing a walkout soon

[apocalypticmoth]

My school just made all of the teachers take down their pride flags from their classrooms. This helped a lot!

[ImNotCreativeEnoughToMakeUser]

I wish I had known more of these laws back when my middle school banned our pride stuff for being "political" while they had no problem with people decked out on homophobic trump stuff

[imalionimaqueen]

I wish I had known this stuff back in school, as a girl I really felt disrespected, compared to how the boys were treated regarding dress code.

[auggith]

i go to an arts school that doesn’t have a dress code at all, it’s hilarious what come of these mfs show up in i love it so much

[eliisamess]

My friend got dress coded for wearing a shirt that said "beauty has no size" like come on how can they dress code that. I saw this video showed it to my friend and we are just going to start out by talking to the principal and try to get this changed, because they can't do stuff like that.

[synxxco]

I live in an area that is extremely secluded from society. Everyone knows about gays, but they know nothing about flag colors or actual LGBTQ terms such as aromantic, so despite going to a private Christian school, I can wear an asexual pride flag and only a few people would notice/understand lol
The only bad thing is if they figure out, there's a chance I could be expelled, and my parents are extremely Christian but against LGBTQ, so they wouldn't even argue with the school most likely.

[Abigail-Rebecca]

How far we have come (for the better) but we still have such a long way to go. When I went to school in the 70s early 80s (in the UK), I wanted nothing more, as a mtf trans person, than to follow the female dress code, but back then this was a huge no no! I would have been humiliated and beaten by the teachers, let alone the other kids.

[wm_jaida]

Yeah in England we have to wear a certain uniform and everything looks the exact same and it’s depressing. You can wear accessories so I wear a few wrist stuff.

[norskibox]

I find it rlly cool how different people wear the same thing and adapt it to make it unique to them. I wear a long sleeve shirt under my uniform, longer pants, bracelets and gloves, technically I don’t violate any of the rules.

Also an FTM friend of mine wears a male uniform, and we go to a catholic school.