DallasNews.com – By Emily Tsao – The Dallas Morning News
FW ISD: Suspension was for cross-dressing, not foul language, he says
A male Fort Worth high school student who has been dressing as a girl has been suspended from school.
Rodney Evans, a 15-year-old sophomore at Eastern Hills High School, said officials told him he was being suspended Thursday for disrupting school with foul language, but he contends the real reason was because he is a transgender male who cross-dresses.
“When I try and do the whole cross-dressing thing, everything just blows up in my face,” he said Friday. “I can’t be who I am. They basically stripped me of who I am.”
A school district spokeswoman declined to comment on the specifics of the incident but said the suspension had nothing to do with clothing.