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It may indeed be transphobic and homophobic also, but it's definitely sexist for the reasons that I gave in my post: a girl would NOT be hindered from wearing man's shoes to class. In the school district where I live, it's still in the books that a girl can wear earrings, but boys can't, even though it's been fairly common for males to wear earrings for decades now. It's sexism because it discriminates against males, but not females. It's still an attack on femininity however, because the whole attitude behind it is that it's shameful for a male student to express his feminine side, but there's no problem with a female student being a tomboy.First of all, from what I got from the article, the school wasn't the problem; other students were; and the school felt powerless to stop them; they probably felt they protecting HIM ( and the integrity of the class room). It may not be fair; but nobody said the world was fair.
And I think your using the wrong term; it's not sexism; it's transphobia and very possibly homophobia.
Exactly.If a person is willing to do something that he knows will draw negative attention from others and goes ahead with it in spite of it, then the school's not helping things by trying to force him to stop. He's the one who ultimately has to face the consequences and if he decides that they're worth his self expression then it's his business and his battle to fight. The school, like almost every school in first world society, runs on the notion that it's their job to fight people's battles for them and control their behavior and activities for their own good. The public school system is the last safe haven in the United States for a fascist.