Cross Dress Day at DC's School

[Anonymous]

DC’s school has “Cross Dress Day” as part of their Spirit Week. I find this kind of weird—is it just me? (I’m not a native born American, fwiw). I don’t get the point of boys dressing as girls, and most girls already dress more like boys than they did 100 hrs ago anyway. And what does any of it have to do with school spirit? Also the whole issue of cross dressing, it seems somewhat disrespectful. Anyway, DCUM: what say you? ?

[Anonymous]

Highly weird. Maybe somehow a word was misconstrued and it doesn't mean "dress like the other gender?"

[Anonymous]

It is strange and I agree that it could be disrespectful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Highly weird. Maybe somehow a word was misconstrued and it doesn't mean "dress like the other gender?"

It does. DS wants to borrow my clothing, I said no, he got angry. Hence thr question...maybe I'm just too uptight?

[Anonymous]

10:54 again.

There is NO WAY I'd let my son wear my clothes. He's 7, so obviously they are way too large. No telling what would happen, but I can guarantee they'd not be returned in good condition.

And for that matter, there is no way his father would allow DS to wear his clothes, either -- for the same reason!

I don't think you're being uptight. But I'm looking at this more as protecting my own clothes.

What school system?

[Anonymous]

How old are the kids involved? I would find it bizarre if the school administration declared "cross dress day" for younger (elementary age) kids, but it sounds like something older kids would think is hilarious and choose themselves for a spirit day.

[Anonymous]

It was done at my high school in the early 90's. The girls dressed in football uniforms and 3-piece suits and stuff like that. The guys dressed in cheerleader uniforms and like a girl from the 50's with big skirts and saddle shoes, or like a girl dancer on Club MTV. It was just a way to be funny and silly. Wasn't disrespectful to anyone. Perfectly normal within the realm of Spirit Week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How old are the kids involved? I would find it bizarre if the school administration declared "cross dress day" for younger (elementary age) kids, but it sounds like something older kids would think is hilarious and choose themselves for a spirit day.

Middle school (6-8). I don't think the administration chose it, but they sanctioned it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was done at my high school in the early 90's. The girls dressed in football uniforms and 3-piece suits and stuff like that. The guys dressed in cheerleader uniforms and like a girl from the 50's with big skirts and saddle shoes, or like a girl dancer on Club MTV. It was just a way to be funny and silly. Wasn't disrespectful to anyone. Perfectly normal within the realm of Spirit Week.

That's 20 yrs ago--do schools here in DC still do it? Beside the aforementioned?

[Anonymous]

We did this in the 80s in high school. Who cares? Why is dressing like a girl disrespectful?! Or do you find it disrespectful for girls to dress like boys? I also remember it to be fashionable for the punk guys to wear skirts to school on an average day. There were a handful of guys with mohawks who wore skirts on any given day. I think it is healthy to subvert gender norms, just too bad it has to be done under the guise of "spirit week," which was lame to begin with!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We did this in the 80s in high school. Who cares? Why is dressing like a girl disrespectful?! Or do you find it disrespectful for girls to dress like boys? I also remember it to be fashionable for the punk guys to wear skirts to school on an average day. There were a handful of guys with mohawks who wore skirts on any given day. I think it is healthy to subvert gender norms, just too bad it has to be done under the guise of "spirit week," which was lame to begin with!

It's weird to call it cross dressing.

[Anonymous]

They called it tranny day at my school. But that's probably not appropriate anymore. We would look strung out and pretend we lived in Hell's Kitchen walk up apts. and try to make a living as best we could.

[Anonymous]

Most girls probably can do jeans and a shirt and be dressed like a boy without much effort. But where is a boy supposed to get girl clothes from unless he has a twin sister.
This is bizarre.
Just curious OP, Is this a private or public school? and can you say which county if public?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most girls probably can do jeans and a shirt and be dressed like a boy without much effort. But where is a boy supposed to get girl clothes from unless he has a twin sister.
This is bizarre.
Just curious OP, Is this a private or public school? and can you say which county if public?

A guy can go to H&M and find a $4 top on their clearance racks. Or he can ask a friend who's a girl to lend him a shirt. Neither of those are much effort.

[Anonymous]

We did that during the 80s for Spirit Week. I think that day coincided with the day of the powder puff football game. We dressed like 11:03. It was lighthearted fun.

This was in HS in a rural/suburban area near a major city.

I don't know if I would do this for a JH, as that is the age that kids are most prone to inappropriate bullying and bad judgement, but I have no problems with them doing this at a high school.