[ConservativeStatement]

"Some are sorting out their gender identity."

This is the new progress?

[stevem]

The change reflects a growing awareness that simple categories of male and female do not fit every teenager.

First, I never had the slightest problem spotting my son and daughters in any and every graduation commencement we ever attended. These included Holy Angels High School in Richfield, MN, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Marquette University (Milwaukee) and Creighton University (Ohaha). It never mattered what color they wore.

Second, is there an educator left at any and every high school and college in the United States who isn't a granite pate?

[Nifster]

For crying out loud this is such nonsense. I graduated a long time ago and we all wore black. Get over yourselves

[monkeyshine]

I don’t recall ever seeing gowns divided by sex. But I admit I have not seen a lot of ceremonies either. I agree, it is silly to divide by sex.

Progress has become just another Orwellian type word. It is superficial progress they want. Superficial diversity, superficial identity driven. Diversity of the superficial is celebrated as an end, not a means. Get more Women, get more Ethnicities and Cultures represented but reject any ideas that deviate from the consensus and ostracize those who refuse to conform. It is the way.

[ThanhPhero]

A decade ago one of the girls in my parish asked me what I thought about what she should wear to her senior prom. She was a tall (for a Vietnamese then) delicate and very pretty girl and very thin and didn't want bare shoulders. I immediately got a picture in my head of her in one of those huge bare shoulder getups that girls wore to the prom back in my day in the Jurassic Era and almost choked.
I said, "Wear an ao dai." That is the Vietnamese traditional dress. She said that would look odd and terribly old fashioned, thinking of women back "home" that had been wearing those things for centuries.
I told her that if she wore one all the other girls would be mad at her because their dates would be looking only at her and lining up to dance with her. Well, she wore a double ao dai, two layers of silk, one of blue and one of red. The ao dai is floor length and split to the waist over loose silk pants. In a draft the fore and aft panels swirl and the colors shift through red, blue and purple over the white pants. One of her classmates months later told me that Hanh got venomous commentary from a number of the other girls back in school the days after the prom.
I didn't find about how it all went until midsummer when a neighbor who is a teacher at that school mentioned to my wife that there had been a strange bit of disturbance at the prom, that some of the "popular girls" had left early in snits and more than one had slapped their boyfriends and also left.
I asked from across the yard if one of the girls was dressed differently. Wife's friend said "yes, how did you know?"

[BlackAdderess]

Huh, the only escapees around here from uniform black are those who have distinguished themselves academically.

[SoFloFreeper]

So the moron administrators let the children run things, eh?

Wait until the kids want to euthanize them.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"... giving way to new realities,"

Translated: giving in to new delusions.

[txrefugee]

Catering to the mentally ill is no way to build a culture.

[bgill]

If they’re still “sorting” it out, they need to repeat 1st grade.

In today’s society, 97% of the girls are long past wearing white but that’s another soapbox.

[mom of young patriots]

So, a handful of anomalies and deviants get to make the rules for the vast majority.

Hey, where are my rights? I have to right to remain normal and be proud of it. When the rights of a tiny minority conflict with the rights of the majority, the majority should speak up. I’d wear white to the stupid prom and dare anyone to protest. If they kicked me out, I’d take to the internet - get some airtime on Fox. I am done with PC.

[Secret Agent Man]

Everyone student in my high school and college graduations wore the same color gowns.