The high schooler was told she couldn't wear a dress and high heels to graduation.
HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. - A transgender student from Mississippi is speaking out after her legal fight over her high school’s graduation dress code made national headlines.
“When we looked at that policy, under our impression, my daughter identifies as female every day of her life. She dresses in feminine clothing every day of her life,” Brown said.that the high school staff has always been supportive of L.B.’s feminine attire – until Harrison County School District Superintendent Mitchell King ordered the dress code to be strictly enforced this year.
“Me going to graduation in what they asked me to wear would be me telling them that it’s OK, and it’s not. It would just feel like I was shadowed and tainted by bigotry, hate,” L.B. said. “My graduation, it’s the start of a new life, a better life.”“It’s really emotional for me, you know, because this is an experience that we’ll never be able to get back, ever,” Brown said.
“She tells her that she can take her pants off and walk the stage, but she needed white shoes. So, she could walk in her underwear, but she can’t walk in pants,” an emotional Caren Dallas said. “This is something that she achieved, you know, that she worked hard for.” “Several adults told her that her attire was OK, and they waited. She’s been here since 4 o’clock. Why didn’t nobody say anything?” said her aunt, Rasheedah Jackson.“I don’t understand how this, a moment this important, can be taken away from a child that’s worked 12 years to get here,” Faison said.
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