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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Kooky_Tradition_5974 on 2024-09-30 00:46:18+00:00.

tl;dr homophobic school staff changed dress code rules just so I couldn’t wear a pair of women boots so my dad bought me the most obnoxious sparkly queer looking cowboy boots out there that technically fit the dress code

A few years back when I was in high school I lived in a small country town as a very flamboyant obviously queer teenage boy without even needing to say anything. Needless to say i was definitely the most popular kid in school and everyone was totally supportive…. Even the staff at the school wasn’t the biggest fan of me unfortunately even though I was a (not so)straight A student who never caused any trouble.

Luckily being raised on a very literal farm my family was and continues to be really supportive, They knew how interested I am in fashion and my parents surprised me on my birthday with this pair of heeled doc marten chelsea boots I had been saving up for. Obviously I was ecstatic and wore them constantly both in and out of school for about a week before I was dress coded for them. Unfortunately this was not my first time being dress coded because of my tendency to wear more “feminine” clothing so I had developed the habit of carrying the dress code pamphlet on me in my bag to prove my innocence because I really was never breaking any rules they just happened to not like what I was wearing. I pointed out that there was nothing about boots or heels, and my teacher just sort of scoffed at me and told me to go the front office apparently they had updated it and if i “had read the newsletter that morning I would’ve known that”.

I went up to the front office and true to what she had said they had added a rule to the effect of work boots were allowed but no fashion boots. Unfortunately it was very obviously targeted because no one male or female was wearing anything like that except for me, my parents knew that too when I got home and told them about it they they were furious for me. My dad took me out the very next day after school to a boot store and quite literally bought me a $300 pair of women’s black “work” boots, that were completed with even some sparkly rhinestones on them. Quite frankly these boots made me look more queer than the first pair ever did and I loved them.

I wore these proudly with a black sparkly hat I already own to school the next day and didn’t even make to to second period before I was called to the front office for violating dress code. The assistant principal told me these were obviously violating dress code and I insisted that these were work boots and practically every other kid work cowboy boots to school every single day so there couldn’t possibly be a problem with mine. She wouldn’t budge and neither would I so my parents were called and it was escalated to the principal. Luckily we expected this and were prepared, my dad showed up in all of his fresh off the farm dirt covered glory to my principal office. The conversation went to the effect of her sitting there telling my father “those are very obviously for fashion and are violating dress code” and my father would respond something to the effect of “how do you know what my kid chooses to wear to work in. since when is wearing boots breaking dress code look at everyone else” and this went back and forth for quite frankly an embarrassing amount of the time but by the end I was allowed to wear my boots.

Much to the annoyance of my old high schools staff I wore those damn black sparkly boots practically every day for the rest of my high school experience and then three years later when I was long gone in college my little sister(An open and proud lesbian by the way) entered high school. We just happen to have the same shoe size and I didn’t mind loaning her the boots. She is a junior now and continuing my legacy of terrorizing the homophobic teachers and staff by wearing those same shoes to school(Which held up amazing by the way) to this day.