Transvestite Banned from Wearing Girl's School Uniform

[kiltedLaddie]

Northampton -  An harmless old man who dressed as a schoolgirl and loitered near children as they walked home from school was given a five-year anti-social behaviour order today, a council said...

http://www.the-bastard.com/index.php?section=40&page=442

[Betty]

The dude would never had got in so much trouble if he wasn't frequently, deliberately loitering around small children he didn't know when school let out... esp. in a lab coat with nothing (or very little) on underneath.

Around here, any adult stranger regularly loitering around small children when school let out would get the same thing or worse, no matter how they were dressed.

This has more to do with a crazy guy or fool loitering around small kids he don't know than the school uniform he wore. Just because he's a little old guy doesn't mean he's not harmless or crazy... esp to little kids.

If they're not your kids, & you're a stranger, you have no business regularly loitering around them even if you were dressed normal. Yeah, a law was broken... That's called stalking.

For an adult stranger to regularly & deliberately loiter (stalk) around small children when school lets out, makes him at least crazy, or at worst a pervert, & it is stalking too. People have every right to keep crazy people & stalkers away from their kids.

I thought the ruling was pretty fair compared to somebody convicted of stalking or regularly loitering near schools when school lets out around here. He's only not allowed to wear skirts outside or show bare legs during school days for 1 1/2 hours in the mornings, & 1 1/4 hours in the afternoons when the kids are going to & from school. The whole issue could have been avoided if he wasn't regularly & deliberately loitering near the school, around little kids when school let out.

If he's gonna act like a crazy person or fool, people will treat him like one.

His crime wasn't wearing a skirt. He made it a point to regularly loiter around small children he didn't know at school time, near the school. Also, wearing something that looks like a lab coat, with nothing or almost nothing underneath around little kids you don't know, near a school will get you beaten, locked up a long time, or killed in my town.

[alison]

I have to agree with Betty.  Even if the guy is doing nothing more than daydreaming about private fantasies, he shouldn't involve the children by loitering around when they are going from/to school.

I also had a problem with the author of the article, who is perpetuating the idea that men who wear women's clothes are gay. There are plenty of straight cross dressers out there in the world.   

[BillieJo]

I live near a school and most of the older teachers know me and we say hi to each other when our paths cross. About three years ago I was looking for a parking place and I happened to drive by the school two times. Fifteen minutes later the police arrived at my door and asked me what I was doing. I explained what happened to them and they told me any more complaints would result in a possible citation. I'm very careful not to drive by the school now.  I know the new teacher thought she was doing her job by protecting the kids and of course I've forgiven her but I did think the officers response when they visited me was a bit excessive.                     

[Betty]

I also had a problem with the author of the article, who is perpetuating the idea that men who wear women's clothes are gay.

Yep. Even though I'm gay, the majority of our visitors, & members are straight. Many of them are happily married with children, or grandchildren.

If seems whatever a person wants to wear, for whatever reason, whether for personal reasons or feelings, a fetish, or as a transvestite, it has no bearing on who they want to have intimate relationships with.

The problem is there's not many places to comfortably & safely go out crossdressed. Most gay clubs & bars are crossdressing friendly, so not only does it attract gay crossdressers, but they also attract straight ones who want to go somewhere dressed.

Even when groups are campaigning for gay rights, they usually combine transgender rights into their efforts, so the outside world observes crossdressing as something gay.

There's not a non-macho man in America (and probably the UK) who hasn't been called gay at least a few times in their life (or frequently), even if they've always preferred intimate relations with women.