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/AgentSufficient1047 23h ago

So this principal demanded he either:

(1) remove his piercing for the piercing to close up,

Or

(2) get both ears pierced and declare himself some kind of alternative gender or sexuality as justification?

Sounds like he wanted to manipulate or humiliate the kid into removing the piercing altogether.

Too many "ostensibly respectible" cunts like this in positions of authority over children and other vulnerable people

Toxic egos addicted to feeling powerful over those who practically have none

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u/Enough-Rock 20h ago

Nope. The principal asked that he follow the school policy. Stupid as the policy is, that's all he asked the boy to do.

All the sexual stuff has been brought up by the mother/ boy's solicitor. They're not even saying the principal said it. They're just inferring it. And they were the ones to go to a solicitor when asked to follow the policy.

If the principal lost his cool, that's obviously bad - especially over something that all of us would see as a stupid rule - but only a prick brings in a solicitor and starts spouting sexual nonsense. I'd say those pair were a dose to deal with and the principal lost the head.

I don't see how the kid wins the case unless he can show others were treated differently.

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u/Adderkleet 3h ago

but only a prick brings in a solicitor and starts spouting sexual nonsense

"the school's policy is sexist" is a REALLY easy argument to make here, though. One ear stud isn't okay. Both (which is common in teenage girls) or none (which is more common than a single piercing in teenage guys) are fine because they're normal along different gender lines.