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Anonymous wrote:Please tell me you are trolling.

I am not trolling. I have a kid who is feeling uncomfortable and no one talks about this. I am looking for a conversation to see how people are reacting and if they have any thought process.

Every spirit day is voluntary. Not required. You know what makes my kids feel uncomfortable? "Twin day" when if you don't have a BFF with cute matching clothes you cant participate. So they don't.

Your kid can opt out. You don't have to make a big thing about it.

On Twin Day my boys always wear a tshirt for the local NFL team. They don't plan with anyone else. On any given day at least 10 boys at school have a team shirt. They have been doing this for a few years now and more kids join in every year. Last week there was 25+ kids in a team shirt.

I’ve definitely seen dress like a frat boy days and the girls often do it. I think it’s an easy thing for them and they all look good in a button down tie and baseball hat.

I’m more uncomfortable with the ones where boys dress as girls because there always seems to be an element of mocking femininity with stuffed bras, hairy legs in skirts, etc. I can’t express it quite right, but it seems derisive.

Anonymous wrote:How do you feel about them? I am trying to get perspectives.

Sounds like indoctrination.

Anonymous wrote:It was a thing at my school in the 90s but very few kids did it. Really only the most popular people, who could afford to laught at themselves and be laughed at without seeming uncool.

+1. This was definitely a thing at my high school (Eastern NC in the late 90s early 00s). We had one ever year for spirit week, but it was less popular than the other days. It was mostly cool kids who did it. We did have one band kid who was a Very convincing woman, but he was very self assured even if he wasn't super popular.

I have never heard of this, but it's a bit more believable with the update that it's for a sports team. My HS teams 25 years ago would have had the freshman do something like this.

Personally, I'd tell my kid it sounds dumb and not to participate. If there was an element of light hazing/embarassment here, I'd definitely raise a complaint with the school and athletics admins.

It was a thing at my school in the 90s but very few kids did it. Really only the most popular people, who could afford to laught at themselves and be laughed at without seeming uncool.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please tell me you are trolling.

I am not trolling. I have a kid who is feeling uncomfortable and no one talks about this. I am looking for a conversation to see how people are reacting and if they have any thought process.

Why is your kid uncomfortable with this?

That is on you.

You did that to your kid. So shame on you.

Would you say this to the parent of a girl who feels uncomfortable wearing a skirt?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please tell me you are trolling.

I am not trolling. I have a kid who is feeling uncomfortable and no one talks about this. I am looking for a conversation to see how people are reacting and if they have any thought process.

Why is your kid uncomfortable with this?

That is on you.

You did that to your kid. So shame on you.

If you read the update on page 2, it sounds like the child who had a problem with it actually has a transgendered sibling and was uncomfortable with "cross-dressing day" based on a transgender person might be uncomfortable with it. Not because they didn't want to dress as the opposite gender.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please tell me you are trolling.

I am not trolling. I have a kid who is feeling uncomfortable and no one talks about this. I am looking for a conversation to see how people are reacting and if they have any thought process.

Why is your kid uncomfortable with this?

That is on you.

You did that to your kid. So shame on you.

If this was real, I would tell my kid that they don't have to participate if they don't want to. This is what I tell him every spirit week. Choose to do what you want and ignore what you don't care about.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you feel about them? I am trying to get perspectives.

There is cross-dressing every day in my kids’ school. The number of girls showing up wearing trousers and T-shirts is on the rise, for example, and is practically commonplace.

What? Since when are “trousers” otherwise known as pants and a tshirt been considered cross dressing for girls? I teach at a middle school and that’s what ever child, girl and boy, wears everyday.

1954?

Only recently did the Virginia Bar start allowing women to wear pant suits to sit for the bar exam, they still required women to wear skirt suits.

While not specifically billed as Cross-Dressing day, but my DD’s had team spirit days such as Dress Like Adam Sandler and Dress Like a Frat Bro

Why would anyone care?

This is not a thing.