District scraps alleged 'cross-dressing' day

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District scraps alleged 'cross-dressing' day

Associated Press
Nov. 16, 2004 06:05 PM

A homecoming tradition in which boys dress like girls and vice versa in a tiny Texas school district won't be held Wednesday after a parent complained about what she regarded as the event's homosexual overtones.

As a substitute for "TWIRP Day," the schools ranging from elementary to senior high decided to hold "Camo Day" - with black boots and Army camouflage to be worn by everyone who wants to participate.

TWIRP, which stands for "The Woman Is Requested to Pay," was hosted by Spurger schools for years during Homecoming Week - to give boys and girls a chance to reverse social roles and let older girls invite boys on dates, open doors and pay for sodas.

Plano-based Liberty Legal Institute issued a news release Tuesday reporting that it "came to the aid of a concerned parent" over an "official cross-dressing day" in the school district 150 miles northeast of Houston.

"It is outrageous that a school in a small town in east Texas would encourage their 4-year-olds to be cross-dressers," Liberty Legal Institute attorney Hiram Sasser said in the release

Tanner T. Hunt Jr., the school district's attorney, called Sasser's statement "inflammatory and misleading." He said the district never planned or conducted a "cross-dressing day."

"They are a tiny little East Texas school district," Hunt said. "It never occurred to them that anyone could find anything morally reprehensible about TWIRP Day. I mean, they've been having it for years, probably for generations, and it's the first time anybody has complained."

Delana Davies, 33, said she complained after reading a school notice about "TWIRP Day." Davies, whose 9-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter attend Spurger Elementary, said she viewed the day not as a silly Homecoming Week activity, but rather something related to homosexuality.

"It's like experimenting with drugs," Davies said. "You just keep playing with it and it becomes customary. ... If it's OK to dress like a girl today, then why is it not OK in the future?"
 
More intollerance for Crossdressers! Having kids exchange roles for a day will not make them CD's. Most of the CD's I know are hetro, married, especially my husband...
People are so narrow minded!!

Honey
 
I know that this is discriminatory.

I know that this story is an example of reprehensible ways of thinking.

I know that the parent in question has a warped attitude towards how homosexuality comes about.

But... it's hilarious!

*Regis2001 laughs hysterically for a long, long time.*

Sorry. That just caught me when I was in a funny mood...

Dammit, what's wrong with cross-dressing? I know plenty of lads that would look so much better in women's clothes - which are, might I add, usually much nicer than men's clothes. if it does encourage kids to do it later in life, good! Get the prejudice out of the way in one small town and we're one step closer to world domination - erm, that is, total equality. Yeah.
 
from a similar department of screwed up anti queer thoughts:

in Toronto Ontario where there is a large queer population, and a large Muslim population it has been decided that students must take a class (not a whole year of classes, just one day in class for an hour or so) that talks about being accepting of kids who have same sex families. The Muslim community is outraged, and have decided that their kids shouldn't be required to take a class that promotes social acceptance, since homosexuality is strickly forbiden in their faith.

To make this news even more outrageously frustrating I got to listen to an extremely narrow minded guy at work, tell me, because of this issue in all the local papers, that all homosexuals should be moved to Islam, because they'll just kill them all. And since all homosexuals are apparently child molestors given time, that would be perfectly fair.

I told him I thought he was being ridiculous in his generalisations and ignored the rest of his tirade, but it put me in a perfectly foul mood. Having to keep my mouth shut about being queer is bad enough, this was outrageous.

Sorry America, the most accepting of all Canadian cities can be entirely intolerant too.

one report:
http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/11/111704torSchool.htm
 
If it's OK to dress like a girl today, then why is it not OK in the future?"

I've been asking that question since I started and I haven't found a decent response yet.

They're only clothes ffs
 
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