A student at a Utah high school complained to a school counselor that the uniforms worn by cheerleaders on game day were making him have 'impure' thoughts in class.

The male student, who attends Timpview High School, which is located in a predominantly Mormon county, said he was distracted by the cheerleaders' skirts, People Magazine reported.

His mother then emailed a school official, who alerted the school's cheerleading coach about the ordeal.

The 44 girls on the schools' cheer squads were told not to wear their uniforms to school on Friday before their football game, according to People.

A male student at Timpview High School in Utah complained to a school counselor that the uniforms worn by cheerleaders (pictured) on game day were making him have 'impure' thoughts in class

School administrators have said that the situation was all a misunderstanding.

But several of the school's cheerleaders feel 'body shamed'.

'All of us were trying to decide which skirt to wear on Friday and our coach told us that we couldn't wear them anymore,' one cheerleader told People.

'We asked what would happen if we wore them anyway, and she advised us not to. So we didn't,' the cheerleader said.

Another cheerleader expressed her outrage about the situation, telling People that 'it's giving this boy power that when he grows up and does something to a girl, he can blame it on her skirt being too short.

'Why should this boy have control over what we wear?'

Timpview High School (pictured) is located in a predominantly-Mormon Utah County. And similar to Brigham Young University, which is located in the same area, many of the high school’s dress codes and other policies are directly influenced by the Mormon church

Several of the girls' parents said the incident was 'nonsense', with one parent telling People that 'it puts unfair pressure on the cheerleaders'.

The parent added: 'I want the school to have a meeting with all of the cheerleaders and all of the parents, and I want our girls to walk out of that meeting with their heads held high.

'This boy's problem has nothing to do with them.'

Timpview High School is located in a predominantly Mormon area.

And similar to Brigham Young University, which is located in the same area, many of the high school’s dress codes and other policies are directly influenced by the Mormon church, according to Inquisitr.

Kate Kelly, the founder of Ordain Women, told People that 'in a culture where females are responsible for all sexual "sin," it unfortunately makes sense that girls – even talented athletes and performers – would be shamed for what they wear'.

Kelly told People that boys at Timpview High School who are preparing to become missionaries for the Mormon Church when they turn 18, 'are in a way being warned against the (make-believe) advances of these girls in order to maintain their purity'.

She added that a 'common refrain' for young women in heavily populated Morman areas is that "modest is hottest", which simultaneously sexualizes girls and shames them for how they choose to dress'.

Kelly said that this ideal is 'consistent with Mormon rape culture, where the burden is put on women and girls to fend off sexual advances with forethought and planning, but men are often pitted as victims of the sexual advances of women and girls'.

Spokesman for the Provo City School District, Caleb Price, told People that school officials are trying to find out exactly what the cheerleaders were told.

'It's a misunderstanding between the cheerleading advisor and a member of the school administration who gave her a message about the boy's concerns,' Price told People.