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School Reverses Course, Cancels
Cross-Dressing Day
Pacific
Justice Institute
Thursday November 1, 2007
Following parent complaints, a middle school on the outskirts
of the Bay Area has reversed course and canceled a cross-dressing
or "gender switch" day.
The mother of a seventh-grade student at Adams Middle School
was alarmed when she heard that on the last day of the school's
"Spirit Week," students were being encouraged to dress
like the opposite sex. Perhaps even more disturbingly, parents
were given virtually no advance notice from the school and found
out about the event after flyers were posted throughout the campus.
When this parent met with the principal to express her concerns,
she was told the event would continue this Friday as planned,
and she could keep her son home from school if he did not want
to participate.
The parent contacted Pacific Justice Institute on Monday, which
advised her on enlisting other parents' support and communicating
with the school. PJI also began laying the groundwork to hold
the school accountable to the public if it did not reverse course
by Tuesday.
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In a 180-degree turnaround, the flyers posted about the gender
switch day had disappeared by Tuesday morning, and the school
confirmed that the event had been canceled. The school is now
encouraging students to wear school colors on Friday. Parents
expressed relief that their middle-school students would not be
pressured to cross-dress or be subjected to a sexually-charged
school environment.
In a phone conversation today with PJI Staff Attorney Matthew
McReynolds, Principal Adam Clark stated, "We want to encourage
our students to be free thinkers, [but] we felt that the overall
message wasn't coming across clear to some members of the community."
Brad Dacus, president of Pacific Justice Institute, commented,
"We want to commend Adams Middle School for doing the right
thing and canceling the gender switch day. Even more importantly,
we commend the parents in this school who said, 'Enough is enough'
and challenged the administration to re-think its position. No
student should be made to feel uncomfortable at school simply
because he doesnt want to cross-dress."
Please visit our website, www.pji.org, to respond to our latest
poll question: Does a cross-dressing day send a confusing message
to middle school students?
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