Fuck the dress code pic.twitter.com/eMXMG0mfF1 — hecking mel (@melloookneee) 29 Janvier 2016

The leggings and athletic shorts do not matter, but what does matter is that we cannot express ourselves equally. pic.twitter.com/yyJqlUjPEF — Sarah (~: (@cool_catzzzz) 29 Janvier 2016

Female students wore typically-male outifts - which they are allowed to do - in support of the boys.

Une photo publiée par Nina Bash her in the face (@ninabasher) le 29 Janv. 2016 à 16h14 PST

A few days ago, boys at Buchanan High school, in the small central Californian town of Clovis, wore dresses to protest their public school district’s strict dress code. According to the code, they are not allowed to wear earrings or have hair that hangs over their earlobes – much less wear dresses.Last week, the school board voted on a proposal to update the dress code, which has been unchanged since 1975. The proposal would have lifted these bans, and allowed boys and girls to wear whatever clothes they want, including skirts and dresses. However, the school board trustees rejected it in a tense 4-3 vote.This decision has drawn mockery and criticism from hundreds of students – who swiftly launched a petition – as well as from parents and teachers. In fact, none of the boys who wore dresses to school in protest were reprimanded; the only students who got in trouble were girls who wore shirts with the words “dress code sucks” written on them.The American Civil Liberties Union has called the dress code “painfully outdated” and argued that the school board’s decision violates California law . Since 2011, state law calls for public schools to respect students’ gender expression, regardless of whether it matches the student’s assigned sex at birth. “A school district should be concerned with helping all of its students graduate, not stay stuck in outdated and discriminatory gender norms,” ACLU staff attorney Abre Conner wrote in a blog post Debates around gender expression in US schools have regularly grabbed headlines in the past couple years. There was the case of a high school senior kicked out of her prom for wearing pants ; the 14-year-old boy who was asked to wash off makeup ; the 13-year-old boy who was suspended for carrying a purse to school ; and the 9-year-old who was banned from bringing his “My Little Pony” bag to school , among many, many more. Gender expression is increasingly being added into anti-discrimination laws throughout the country, whether it’s in classrooms or in the workplace. However, these laws are determined at the state and local level, leaving citizens in some parts of the country unprotected