Transgender Teen Denied Entry to Prom for Wearing Dress
ABC news station WAAY 31.A mom of a male student at the school, Lesa Drake, got a call from the group to let them know what happened and she headed down there to confront the principal, Blake Wigley, about the decision.
The school then called the police."I kept asking why. Why can't she come? Because she's wearing a dress. There were other transgender students in there not wearing their birth gender attire.
What is wrong with this issue? And he kept saying, 'I told her yesterday,'" Drake told WAAY 31.Wigley reportedly told the mom the school's handbook explained the reason for the decision to refuse the student entrance to the prom, but when Drake checked it herself, she could not find a relevant policy."I looked at the student handbook, and there's absolutely nothing in it, and there's nothing in the prom section.
And this is all caught on tape by the officer that was there," she said.Newsweek contacted Wigley, the school's vice principal and the Jackson County School Board by email for comment.
