OKAY! I totally forgot to post these back when I was blonde.

So, I have this really cute “crop top.” As you can see it covers most of my torso, and my pants cover almost all the rest.

I wore this top to get my ASB picture taken a few days before school started. I helped out at my mother’s (CHRISTIAN) wives’ ministry in this outfit, minus the hoodie bc it was hot af. My father (who is pretty conservative) saw me that morning and said nothing bad. It’s just an outfit that’s more “modest” than a lot of outfits at my school. Like, I’ve seen girls wear crop tops that hardly even cover their breasts (nothing wrong with that, but just to give you an idea of things people wear at my school).

So, I had to use the bathroom during second period. Since I’m nb I’m allowed to use the gender neutral bathroom in the nurse’s office. So I walked through the hallway toward the bathroom when I got flagged down by a staff member I will refer to as Mrs. M (If you go to my school then you know who I’m talking about).

Mrs. M was on the phone, but decided that an inch of my stomach was important enough to flap her hands like a bird and motion towards my stomach. She whispered “You can’t show your tummy here at school.” She seriously kept it up until I zipped up my hoodie. For the rest of the day it was setting off my sensory overload.

Honestly, I would be okay with it if I wasn’t the exception. Yes, technically speaking my top broke dress code. Yes, it should my stomach. But, no, it has not gotten other people in trouble.

The only people who get into trouble for it? Females who are a size eight or larger (I am a size sixteen). Remember those girls I mentioned who wear tops that even right after their boobs and don’t get into trouble? They are all under a size eight. My friend is probably a size six or something and wears crop tops just a little shorter than mine all the time. She never has gotten in trouble for it.

This isn’t just a fatphobia thing (even though most people don’t see a size eight as fat lbr), this is also a sexism thing. The next day this boy at my bus stop ore a shirt with a black and white photo on it. Of women. In bikinis. If you looked at him for only a split second it looked like they were in the nude. He didn’t get in trouble.

This guy is larger than me, his face isn’t aesthetically pleasing to most, he’s an ableist, misogynistic, and racist asshole, and he’s in my grade. He has these things that everybody knows, but since he’s a white, cisgender, heterosexual male who happens to be on the football team he didn’t get in trouble.

tl;dr: I got in trouble for showing one inch of my stomach while other people can wear whatever the fuck they want.