It really showed me the hatred people felt toward me,'' she said. Most of the lawmakers said they believe the state's existing antidiscrimination laws are sufficient to protect everybody - gays, lesbians, blacks and whites. A new law is not needed. It's only a matter of enforcing existing laws, they said. Accept that fact, and what to do to protect gay and lesbian college and high school students becomes a difficult question.
Laws exist - but it's also true that they seem to get ignored.
The student won. The school appealed. The student won again. The law, ruled the court, permits a student to wear whatever any other student wears, male or female. This social need to make others conform to be like us may be a natural group dynamic or one that's learned.