by Molly Ade
This teenager successfully took a stand against her high school’s graduation dress code.
Lacey Henry, a senior at Cumberland Polytech, started a change.org campaign to allow girls to wear pants at the event which required girls to wear dresses, heels, and pantyhose.
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Henry, a self-described “tomboy,” felt the dress code policy violated Title IX, which bans schools from sex- or gender-based discrimination.
“As a young woman in 2019, the students expect freedom of dress and choice for their body, but instead, their bodies are over-sexualized and objectified,” she wrote in her petition.
In response to her campaign and letter she sent to the principal and district superintendent, the school announced it wouldn’t require students to wear gender-based attire.