Lesbian Student Fights for Yearbook Tuxedo Photo

[Miles]

JACKSON, Miss. — Everyone at Wesson Attendance Center knows 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis is gay because she's never tried to hide it.

But when Sturgis — an honor student, trumpet player and goalie on the school's soccer team — wanted her senior photograph in a tuxedo used in the 2009-10 yearbook, school officials balked. Traditionally, female students dress in drapes and males wear tuxedos.

Now, the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi has gotten involved, issuing a demand letter to Principal Ronald Greer to publish the picture of Sturgis in the tuxedo. The ACLU says it's giving the school until Oct. 23 to respond before pursuing court action, said Kristy L. Bennett, the ACLU's legal director.

Sturgis said she should get to decide how she looks in the senior photo.

"I feel like I'm not important, that the school is dismissing who I am as a gay student and that they don't even care about me. All I want is to be able to be me, and to be included in the yearbook," Sturgis said in a statement.

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So, who should prevail?

[JoeyKnothead]

If there's an objective standard involved here, let that standard be freedom to pick one's own clothes.

The standard of the freedom to pick one's own clothes is not an objective standard, it varies from individual to individual. My problem is that she expects society to conform to her individual standard, yet she doesn't believe in objective standards. It's behavioral inconsistency.

"Let me wear what I wanna, and you can wear what you wanna."

How is that inconsistent?

Notice the girl just wants to wear her preferred clothing, and is not asking others to accept it so much as leave her the heck alone about it.