An openly gay senior at Clyde High School is speaking out after he was punished with an in-school suspension for wearing nail polish to school.
Trevor Wilkinson, 17, said he originally received the suspension on Monday after he returned from Thanksgiving break with his nails painted, which violates his school’s dress code. “Imagine your school not allowing boys to paint their nails and giving boys iss [in-school suspension] for it,” tweeted 17-year-old Trevor Wilkinson. “And the whole administration being okay with it, homophobic and sexist?
Welcome to west Texas.” That same day, Wilkinson created a Change.org petition demanding that boys be allowed to wear nail polish.