Gay Teen Schools the School Board After Being Suspended for Wearing Nail Polish Details
MEDIA WATCH A gay teen in Texas spoke at his local school board meeting about how he is being denied an education because he wore nail polish to school.
“This isn’t about me anymore,” said Clyde High School senior Trevor Wilkinson. “It’s about a discriminatory, sexist policy that needs to be changed.”
Wilkinson went to school after Thanksgiving this year with nail polish on and he was given an in-school suspension (ISS) because he violated the dress code, which bans male students from wearing nail polish and make-up. He was told he would stay in ISS until he removed the nail polish, but he’s not giving up without a fight.
Trevor Wilkinson spoke in front of the school board after being suspended for violating the dress code. December 16 2020 5:33 PM EST
Trevor Wilkinson just wants to go to school and to be himself. The senior at Texas s Clyde High School went to class after Thanksgiving break with painted nails and was immediately placed in in-school suspension. The reasoning, he was told, was that he violated the dress code, which bans male students from wearing nail polish and make-up.
Wilkinson was told that he would stay in suspension until he removed the nail polish.
He decided instead to stand strong and went in front of the school board with his message of acceptance and diversity. “I got my education taken away from me for something as minor as painting my nails because it’s against the dress code,” he said.
Suspended Gay Teen Drags School Board in Meeting Over Nail Polish
They grow tough teens in Texas. December 16 2020 2:37 PM EST
The gay Texas teen suspended for wearing nail polish to school turned the tables on the school board that punished him. Trevor Wilkinson, a senior at Clyde High School, had been placed on in-school suspension last month for a dress code violation when he wore fingernail polish to class. While the school board did not change their policy that forbids boys from wearing making or nail polish, local ABC affiliate
“This isn’t about me anymore,” Wilkinson said from the podium at a school board meeting. “It’s about a discriminatory, sexist policy that needs to be changed.”
Trevor Wilkinson stood up against his school board (Screenshot: KTXS)
A gay high school student slapped with an indefinite suspension for wearing nail polish delivered an important lesson of his own at his local school board meeting.
Clyde High School senior Trevor Wilkinson, 17, received an in-school suspension for breaking the dress code which prohibits fingernail colours for male students – and male students only.
With his petition against the “homophobic and sexist” school rules backed by nearly 350,000 people, Wilkinson stood strong and took his protest directly to the school board.
“This isn’t about me anymore,” he told the board members. “It’s about a discriminatory, sexist policy that needs to be changed.”