Change.org petition describing the school’s overreaction to his nail polish, “I am a gay male and I’m beyond proud… Help me show that it is okay to express yourself and that the identity that society wants to normalise is not okay.”In an interview at the time, Wilkinson elaborated, “It’s 2020 and we should be progressing and not taking steps back.
And it makes me really sad because I know that there are other people who feel like this and feel like they can’t express themselves and that they never will be able to because of people like this, who are not open-minded enough to see another perspective.”Weeks after his suspension, Wilkinson addressed the school board at a meeting and asked them to note that the American Civil Liberties Union of.