Living in California we have extremely hot weather some days. I am have been dress coded multiple times in these past 2 weeks for wearing the same exact outfits and shirts I wore last year and now somehow it’s “unsafe, unhealthy, and inappropriate” to wear now. Since being in school I have also started to notice more people being comfortable showing their stomachs no matter their size, being able to wear what you want and be comfortable in your own skin is a critical ingredient of self expression. I have seen males walking around campus with crop tops, unzipped jackets with nothing underneath, literally shirtless and staff does not hunt them down the way they do to females, as non-binary, and gender fluid students. I have asked my peers what they think about my outfits and not one male has said that I am distracting, the only people that stare at me on campus are the grown adults waiting to dress code me. I can understand that for staff it is their work and they must dress more appropriately but for us as students it is our school, this is where we grow our individuality and find out who we are, we can do this with several ways as fashion being one of them so why are we being limited on our expression? Oh wait my bad, why are the young women at school being stripped of our self expression just because someone doesn’t like it? Recently our school sent out an email talking about dress code. A few of the things they saying they’re contradict with itself, for example the very first sentence says “Helix Charter High School’s dress code provides an equitable educational access and is written in a matter that does not reinforce stereotypes.”  Right off the bat they can cross that sentence out first obvious reasons. “Student dress code enforcement should not result in unnecessary barriers in school attendance.” Is that why you pull young girls out of class and keep them in the office for the rest of the day when they won’t put on a different shirt? “All students and staff should understand that they are responsible for maintaining their own personal ‘distractions’ without regulating individual students clothing/self-expression.” So then can somebody tell me why staff is saying we’re distracting? I could go on longer about this but I’m not as good with my words as some of you, thank you for speaking up I appreciate all of you.