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- From: gaf5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Gail A. Fullman)
- Subject: Re: News: Boy Wants to Wear Dress To School
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.170415.118839@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- Organization: Lehigh University
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 04:02:26 GMT
-
- In article <9211031605.AA14982@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov>, Celeste%express@freedom.m
- sfc.nasa.GOV writes:
- >The author of the article at the Atlanta Constitution was contacted. They
- >said that the article may be replicated provied the "by line" (author's
- >name) is left intact. With that we may replicate and distribute copies
- >of the article.
- >
- >Article from
- >The Atlanta Journal & The Atlanta Constitution
- >of Saturday, Oct. 10, 1992 page B1
- >
- >Teenage missing school because he's not allowed to dress as a girl
- >
- >By Pat Burson
- >STAFF WRITER
- >
- >A Tri-Cities High School senior is fighting for his choice "to
- >be a girl" has remained away from school for nearly three weeks
- >because of an impasse with Fulton County school officials, who
- >have ruled that he cannot come to school anymore dressed as a
- >girl.
- >
- >Principal Hershel Robinson recently informed Nicholas Ricks, 17,
- >who has been cross-dressing since last spring and considers
- >himself a pre-operative transsexual, that he "would have to dress
- >appropriately until the medical and legal documentation came in to
- >state he was a girl."
- >
- >Dr. Hershel Robinson said provisions have been made for Nicholas
- >to use restrooms in the administrative suite and to use the
- >coaches' office to change if he takes physical education. However,
- >the principal said, the student will be allowed to dress as a
- >female only if he has the medical and legal documentation.
- >
- >Meanwhile, Nicholas's mother, Kathleen Baber, is irate with Dr.
- >Robinson and other school officials for not responding to her
- >pleas for help last spring, when she first discovered her son was
- >dressing as a girl at school.
- >
- >She is still distraught. "It's like watching your son die, and
- >nobody will help you," she said, crying.
-
- Please keep us posted on this. I find it interesting that a boy
- cannot dress as a girl, but, let's face, girls are dressing like boys.
- Girls now wear pants, jeans, large sweatshirts, t-shirts, etc. to
- school. These were traditional boys wear.
-
- Methinks, why are the school officials taking issue now? Why not when
- the boy first started it? Is it possible they are blowing this out of
- proportion by making an issue of it?
-
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