Red nose day- dress as the opposite gender

[Disneydatknee88]

My DD (8) told me today that for red nose day they have to dress as the opposite gender. It was voted for by student council, unsure if it was their suggestion or that they just voted on it. AIBU to think this is totally out of order and tone deaf? Dressing as the opposite gender is not funny or to be made fun of.

So many children would be genuinely very uncomfortable with that, one of my own included. So would I at the school I work in tbh and we usually join in with the children on these types of things. I’m happy to dress up, I might even be happy to be a male character, but to dress as me but male would be weird and not fun. The school would get a complaint and my children would get a day off if this happened to us.

For an 8 year old?
I've been to fancy dress parties as a boy/man in my teens (even stuffing - well no I wont go there) but not at 8.
NO.

I think you might be reading too much into it tbh.

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