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Recently in the UK there was a story about a young transgendered person, in fact a transsexual person to be exact who had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and had been attending school in her assigned gender until she made the decision, with the support of her parents, to resume school after the term break in a skirt as a girl. Born physically male but obvious to her and diagnosed as such, she was in fact female. Despite any potential taunts and ridicule from her peers she was allowed to wear a skirt to school. It has now been suggested that boys should be allowed to wear skirts if they so wished and that all children should be allowed to wear either trousers or skirts no matter what their gender. To me this is a ridiculous suggestion and I cannot see why it was put forward. Supposedly it is about children’s rights to be able to wear whatever they like to school thereby dispensing with the uniform. Whilst attempting to protect dysphoric children by allowing anyone to wear a skirt they are in fact drawing attention to them. Like many things that go on in this country they seem to go way beyond the realms of common sense when faced with solving simple problems, a bit like wielding a sledge-hammer to drive in a pin! Whilst it might be argued that anyone should be free to wear clothing currently associated with their opposite gender the majority of people wouldn’t take up the offer because it goes against traditional values and accepted norms. Much of what happens in this country is decided or influenced by laws passed in the European courts and consequently there are often conflicts of interest. Personally I feel we would do better being out of Europe altogether but alas it isn’t my decision. One good thing that resulted from being in Europe was the Gender Recognition Bill becoming law but many other things are not really helpful and some are tantamount to interference. I just don’t understand some of the things that go on these days, we seem to be taking backward steps most of the time.
Shirley Anne
Filed under: Politics Tagged: Dysphoria, Gender, Gender identity disorder, Politics, Psychology, Skirt, Social Sciences, Transgender, Transgendered
