I am a dance teacher and choreographer. My job is physical. A key part of my pedagogy is working to support and empower students to move freely and without judgement of their own or others’ bodies.
The principal of one of the schools where I teach called me into her office and told me another staff member had made a complaint about me because I wear shorts. She told me to get a long, wrap-around skirt and to wear it over my shorts whenever I leave the dance studio. She said my shorts are “not fair on the boys”.
The male P.E teachers wear shorts every day. No one has complained about them. No one asks them to wear wrap-around skirts.