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Luis Villafañe, a young student at a school in Tucumán, north of Argentina
, was about to live one of the happiest days of his life: his graduation.
However, the time turned bitter because of the director of the Technical School N ° 1 of Juan Bautista Alberdi, who saw him dressed in a skirt -which in the area they call a skirt- and she forced him to take it off to let him attend the ceremony.
“I wore the pollera (skirt) to be able to change at school. I changed, and when I came out of the bathroom, the principal saw me and asked me: ‘What was I doing dressed like this, with women’s clothes?”, Said the student in an interview with LV12, a prestigious local medium.
Faced with the director’s demand, Luis had no choice but to respond: “His question struck me, to which I replied: ‘Clothes have no gender.’ He replied that I had to go from there now ”.
The young man removed the garment and attended with a dress that did not correspond to his taste, graduated and later changed his clothes.
With her skirt on again, she took a picture and posted it on her social networks with a strong message.
“In a society that educates us for shame, pride is a political response. Homophobia and machismo in school institutions EXIST AND all of us who do not comply with the heteronorm are and will be exposed to receiving institutional violence from the moment we start to study until the moment we graduate (if they give us the possibility to do so). As a society we have to make visible and repudiate all these kinds of actions, for ourselves and for those who come. WE ARE NOT QUIETING ANY MORE !!! ”, he wrote.
Minutes later, Luis’s publication went viral and ended in two things: one “target =” _ blank “data-cms-ai =” 0 “> massive protest
of men and women wearing skirts in a small square in that city, in rejection of what happened, and in a wake-up call from the Ministry of Education; For this reason, the director not only had to apologize, but also adopt measures to reinforce the contributions of the ESI, Comprehensive Sexual Education (ESI) for fathers, mothers and teachers.
A similar event happened in November in Spain, prompting a massive protest called ‘Faldatón’.
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