Bonnie Peltier’s daughter, identified as “A.P.” in legal documents, is suing her public school, seeking the right to wear pants as part of the school’s uniform.

It’s been quite a week for girls and their pants.

On Thursday, the girls at Charter Day School in North Carolina were delighted to learn that they can finally wear pants or shorts to school. A federal district judge ruled that their publicly funded K-8 charter school’s dress code, which prohibits girls from wearing pants or shorts as part of its standard uniform, was unconstitutional, in violation of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.

The dress code kept girls from playing freely at recess, required them to sit in uncomfortable positions and overly focus on how they were sitting, ultimately distracting them from learning, the judge ruled. Girls were also colder in the winter.

The dress code for boys was not limiting in any of those ways, he said. “The skirts requirement causes the girls to suffer a burden the boys do not, simply because they are female,” Judge Malcolm Howard wrote in his ruling.

“This type of policing of girls’ femininity and appearance is so ingrained and accepted from such an early age,” said Galen Sherwin, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project and lead counsel in then case. “It really does send a message that girls’ education is less important than boys’, and their comfort is less important.”

In related pants news earlier this week, the Notre Dame University student paper published a letter to the editor in which a self-identified Catholic mother of four sons begged female Notre Dame students to stop exposing themselves to their male counterparts by wearing leggings.

“Leggings are so naked, so form fitting, so exposing,” wrote mom Maryann White. “Could you think of the mothers of sons the next time you go shopping and consider choosing jeans instead?”

The letter went viral, sparking a campus protest and probably ringing up a few extra sales at Lululemon.