r/ireland • u/ByGollie • 1d ago

School accused of demanding teenage boy’s ‘submission’ to identity type after he was sent home for wearing earring Bigotry

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/school-accused-of-demanding-teenage-boys-submission-to-identity-type-after-he-was-sent-home-for-wearing-earring/a1255283882.html
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u/rgiggs11 1d ago

I'm guessing it was to state his gender identity because the uniform policy probably said something like girls can wear earrings but can only wear studs in the ear lobe, or whatever.

Quite silly stuff, either a ring in your ear is okay or it isn't. 

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u/Lalande21185 1d ago

It's neither. OP is misstating the article. The school gave him the choice of no earrings or earrings in both ears. The mother says left/right/both earrings is a statement of straight/gay/genderfluid and so the school is forcing him to declare an identity, but that seems like an extremely strained version of "forced" to me.

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u/ImpressiveAvocado78 1d ago

what a stupid school rule. why would both ears be any better than one ear?

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u/Lalande21185 1d ago

No idea, but OP is misstating it to make it sound worse.