Students stage protest to highlight school’s discriminatory dress code

[Students disagree with the dress code in force at their high school in California/Mic]

A handful of teenage students in California have swapped closets in protest of what they deem to be their school’s discriminatory dress code.

Some boys at Buchanan High School, in Clovis, Cal., swapped their regular clothes for the “banned” items that young female students aren’t allowed to sport at school. The males donned spaghetti strap dresses and leggings, for example.

Male students, however, are prohibited from wearing earrings or having their hair too long.

“The reason we switched gender norms for the day was to make the statement that what we wear does not define us as students,“ student Emma Sledd told the Tri-City Herald.

Sledd chose to wear a collared shirt in solidarity with male students to protest the biased code.

Male students have hair that was too long was recently spotlighted when William Pleasant was not allowed to enroll for school due to his hair length.

He wrote in a letter to the Fresno Bee that he had been "harassed, punished and [denied his] education repeatedly for simply being a man with long hair.”

Late last month, school trustees added fuel the the fire by deciding to not amend the dress code.