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Skirt ban school accused of influence by TRAs

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hellooooooomama · 12/06/2025 21:01

Link to article

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj93kljpdn9o

I bloody knew there was more to this. I applaud the parents for not holding back.

I have started a new thread because I felt the older one got completely derailed after a while.

I'll link it below anyway.

James Saunders, who has grey hair and is wearing glasses with black rims, standing outside the visitor entrance to Honywood School. The school is an orange brick building.

Honywood School head had 'personal attacks' over skirt ban

The head says some parents thought he was influenced by transgender activists.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj93kljpdn9o

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Dwimmer · 13/06/2025 08:34

Seems more likely that TRA would object to boys not being allowed to wear skirts in order to be ‘gender affirmed’. As for the idea that girls in trousers are some how more ‘boy’ - that is straight of of the TRA rule book. The school should stamp down on such regressive sexist nonsense.

TheNightingalesStarling · 13/06/2025 08:32

oviraptor21 · 13/06/2025 08:30

Or just police skirt length like schools have done for millenia.

Then get accused of "perving" when they tell a girl their skirt is too short.

Theres no actual easy answer.

oviraptor21 · 13/06/2025 08:30

Or just police skirt length like schools have done for millenia.

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hellooooooomama · 13/06/2025 08:27

(That last comment was in response to the often repeated argument that girls can't be trusted or policed to keep their skirt length to a respectable length)

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hellooooooomama · 13/06/2025 08:26

Bannedontherun · 12/06/2025 23:14

I don’t get this at all if TRA’s were in the mix surely they would want skirts.

I have no issue with trousers as a dress code for all. Not on the basis of gender neutral, on the basis of girls being less vulnerable.

In this cohort most of those vulnerable to TRAs are female.

My own daughter tells me she feels more like a boy in trousers. She prefers a skirt. She's much younger but I do think the way we present is important to individuals and this school were trying to restrict choice.

I don't know why they don't just introduce dresses, which cannot be rolled up.

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Bannedontherun · 12/06/2025 23:14

I don’t get this at all if TRA’s were in the mix surely they would want skirts.

I have no issue with trousers as a dress code for all. Not on the basis of gender neutral, on the basis of girls being less vulnerable.

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hellooooooomama · 12/06/2025 22:33

They are parents at the school. They will know a lot more than we do what's actually going on here.

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Christinapple · 12/06/2025 22:20

So any actual evidence just random accusation by a random unnamed individual(s)?

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