There was a noticeable change in the girls during 2ed period. They were laughing a lot while they played netball today. I could over heard a lot of them talking about Mr. Dibble. The were laughing about him being in a dress. I could only assume that the news was all over school by now. I could only guess that when I had come back in a dress, it was all over school by 2ed period also. I could only assume that him wearing a dress, and what happened yesterday was related. I bet that the Headmaster made him wear a dress.

2ed period was finished and we went to the showers. I was later than the rest because Ms. Thermopolis made me put all of the balls into a bin for next period.

I didn’t feel so self-conscious today. Only a few of the girls came and checked me out today also. I guess those were the ones that didn’t come yesterday, but came to see for themselves today. After all, seeing is believing.

Third period was almost the same, except Mrs. Jones had to call the girls to pay attention to what they were doing and cut down the chatter a number of times. I was also wondering about fourth period now, and what was going to happen.

I come within reach of Mr. Dibble’s class with great anxiety. I was in terror of what Mr. Dibble was going to do to me today. I was sure that he was wearing a dress. I was also sure that he was going to take it out on me. The Headmaster must have made him wear a dress. After all he had in the memo that he could punish students, couldn’t he also punish a teacher that way? Like, the Headmaster could do anything he wanted. Well except for killing a student, but sometimes you had to wonder about that to, students have just disappeared before.

I looked through the door, and there was Mr. Dibble standing behind his podium, in a yellow dress and stuff. I finally decided that I could not stay out here forever so I walked in, and went directly to my desk.

Mr. Dibble didn’t say anything today. He just looked down on papers on his podium. People were giggling and even laughing, but Mr. Dibble didn’t say anything, he just waited. Even after the bell rang, he still waited, for like two minutes, with out saying anything.

Finally he spoke, “OK, class, lets settle down and have a little less noise.” He then waited for the noise to stop. It took a lot longer than usually, but he didn’t tell the class to hurry up and be quit, like a teacher usually would.

“As you can tell I’m in a dress. The Headmaster gave me this punishment because of a misunderstanding yesterday. The first misunderstanding was that I thought that anyone that wore a dress was a pervert. The second misunderstanding was that I thought girls were perverts. The third misunderstanding was a statement I made that football players were fools and perverts. The fourth problem was that I failed to read to the class a memo given out by the Headmaster as he had instructed certain teachers to do. The fifth problem was that I failed to listen to students when they were trying to tell me the error of my ways. The sixth problem was that I hurt a student that has no choice in the way that SHE has to dress. The seventh problem is that I didn’t know any of this because I failed as a teacher in knowing about the students that I am teaching. So, the Headmaster is punishing me, he said he would do this to any male student that did not follow his instructions. I agreed to his punishment, to show that no one is above the law, which in this case is the Headmasters written instructions on his memo.”

He continued to ramble on, as teacher are want to do, “To address the misunderstandings of calling any student a pervert, I apologize to that student, The Headmaster has explained to me that that student in question does have any choice in the matter. That student’s parent is following the orders of the psychiatrist. Second to make sure that we all understand the problems of women, we will be learning about recent history of women’s advancement to equal rights as men. Second we will be learning about people of recent history that have had problems fitting in with modern society, we will be comparing that with the history of other peoples that have not fit into accepted society and what can happen. An example of this is the Jews in Germany before World War II. We will be having general discussions about this things.”

“For today, you can all address me as Mrs. Dibble, not to confuse me with my wife, who was kind enough to loan me her dress for today. And if she ever got my words on the wind, of calling anyone in a skirt a pervert, she is worst than the Headmaster, and will have me wearing dresses for a month.”

“Now about my statement about football players being fools. The Headmaster is making me tutor all football players with less than a C+ average. I am not sure if I can change my mind about football players being fools, not after I have been trying to teach them for twenty years. But at least for now, they will not be dumb fools. To make sure that they are not fools, any football player that I cant raise his grade above a C+ will not play football. That means that he will just be a dumb fool, not a football player. When raises his grade to above a C+, then he will be able to football again, but at least he will not be a dumb fool.”

“Any questions before we start our history lesson for today?” Mr. Dibble asked.

“Mr. Dibble,” I asked, “Are you wearing a dress because of yesterday?”

“Well Miss Johnson That is one of the reasons that I am wearing a dress. The major reason that I am wearing a dress is so that I can understand how students feel that are treated unfairly, as I treated you. You were just the tip of the ice berg, so to speak.” He said, but like most teachers, they don’t stop with a few words, when many more will do. “I have also been accused of not understanding students that don’t study, or that pass, what is to me, a simple test. So the Headmaster has insisted that I wear a dress so that I can understand what it is that you are going through. Since you don’t want to wear a dress, but are being made to, so am I wearing a dress even though I obviously don’t want to. Does that answer both your question, and you understanding of the reason for this masquerade that we are both being put through?”

“But Alice is a girl now” piped up Susan.

“I don’t think that Alice is a girl, Susan, Alice is still a boy in his heart. Alice has to use the girl’s bathroom and change in the girl’s gym because of what he looks like. So the rulebook says that Alice has to wear a dress. But does that make Alice a girl? We will be studying some people that call themselves transgender. These people are in the wrong body, just like Alice is now. Transgender girls are boys that want to be girls. They think that they are girls, and when they get old enough, they do every thing in their power to become girls. There are a lot of other psychological problems that people have to face and over come, one way or another. In Alice’s case the psychiatrist in charge has decided that the best thing for Alice is total emersion into woman hood. He hopes that this will let Alice lead a normal life as a woman. Since Alice does not have the parts of his body that makes Alice a male, instead of a she. This going to be our first topic for study, but instead of me lecturing everyone, we will open the class for discussion, but I have to warn you that you will be expected to do some research and a report on this topic, or another one that I will assign to you.”

“You mean that you are going to let us speak in your class?” Susan said.

“Yes, the Headmaster said that was one of the strategies that I was to implement into the study of history. So the question before the class is Alice a him or a her, and I think that the first person that we should hear from is Alice. So Alice are you a girl or a boy?” Mr. Dibble said

I had to think about it a moment. If I said a boy then I would be laughed at some time later for not having the right parts. But I did not feel like a girl. “I am a Him-Lady,” I said.

“What’s a him lady?” Johnny from the back row asked.

Anyone from the back row asking questions meant trouble. “I’m not a girl or a boy. Just because I had to have reconstruct surgery, to fix a problem does not change a person. It did change what I look like down there, but up top I still don’t look like a girl,” I answered.

“A very good point Alice, anybody else?” Mr. Dibble asked.

“But aren’t you going to get tit’s like a girl,” Johnny asked again.

“Yea, tit’s and a pussy makes you a girl,” Johnny’s friend said. “Everyone knows that. That’s what makes you a girl, just like a dick makes you a boy.”

“So Alice is a girl, we have all see her in gym class, and she didn’t have one of those boy things, she had a vagina, so she’s a girl, and not every girl had breast, some girls are late bloomers.” Susan said.

“Lets have a show of hands, how many think that Alice is a girl?”

About fifteen hands went up.

“OK, show of hands, how many think that Alice is a boy?”

About three hands went up.

“OK, that leaves twelve students.

“How many don’t know if Alice is a girl or a boy?”

About 5 hands went up.

“Any other options?” Mr. Dibble asked.

I raised my hand. “Yes Alice, what do you think that you are?” Mr. Dibble asked.

“I still think that I am a he-lady, because I have mostly girl looking body parts, but I’m still a guy inside.” I said.

“OK, how many think that Alice is a him girl?” Mr. Dibble asked.

About 15 hands went up.

“That means that some student voted twice. And it also begs to ask the question, can a person be both a girl and a boy at the same time?” Mr. Dibble asked

“What about people like both boy and girls?” Susan asked.

“An excellent question Susan, and that is what your report is going to be about.” Mr. Dibble said. “So the question is, does liking both boys and girls mean that you are not a boy or a girl?”

“What does who you like make a difference about what sex you are? Guys are gay because they are guys, if they were not girls would be normal.” June said. “And if they like, like both boys and girls, would that make them both or neither? That just doesn’t make any sense. So I say that who you like does not make you either one, it doesn’t mean anything when determining what sex you are, it all comes down to what a doctor finds between your legs.”

“Does anybody agree or disagree?” Mr. Dibble asked.

Johnny yelled from the back of the room “I agree, what’s between your legs makes you a guy or a chick.”

“Johnny, so you like chicks,” Mr. Dibble asked.

“Course, I like chicks, All guys like chicks.”

Would you date a any chick here then?” Mr. Dibble asked.

“Course I would.” He responded.

“Alice, Johnny wants to date you, how about it? According to him, you’re a chick, and he’d date any chick here.” Mr. Dibble said.

“Wait a minute, I would not date him, and he’s not a chick.” Johnny said.

“But you just defined what a girl was, and said you’d date any girl, so Johnny, why wouldn’t you date Alice, she’s a girl according to other girls in the class.” Mr. Dibble said.

“Because he’s a freak, that’s why, any guy that whack’s off his dick, and gets a pussy is just a freaking freak.” Johnny said.

“OK, we have another classification for Alice, we have Boy, Girl, a him her or both, and now a freak. This brings us into chapter 17, so if you would all turn your books there, we will discuss World War Two and some of the reasons that the Germans were willing to send millions of Jews to concentration camps and later to gas champers.” Mr. Dibble said.

The rest of Mr. Dibble’s class was lecture. No one had any thing to say after the first part of the class.

Mrs. Kims class of Women’s studies was however also a little livelier than usual classes. The girls wanted to talk about Mr. Dibble wearing a dress. They all thought that it was stupid for a guy to wear a dress. Which of course brought the discussion around to me wearing a dress.

“Then is it OK for Alice, here to wear a skirt?” Mrs. Kims asked.

“Of course it is, because Alice is a girl,” someone said.

“But what makes it OK, for Alice to have to wear a skirt and be OK, when Alice use to be a guy, and not OK for Mr. Dibble to wear a dress, when the Headmaster has said that he has to be punished, by wearing a dress for insulting Alice?” Mrs. Kims asked.

“Because he is a guy still, and Alice is a girl now.” Sue said.

“So only guys can wear skirts, that will be news to the Scotsmen that wear kilts, and aren’t they like a skirt?” Mrs. Kims asked again.

The class was silent. No one had an answer for that. So I said, “It’s not what you wear that makes you a boy or a girl. People are born either a boy or a girl. However some boys or girls are born thinking they are the wrong sex, and dress the opposite. And sometimes an accident happens that force the doctors to change the sex of a person. But it’s really what’s in your heart, which makes you a boy or girl. But, boys and girls wear the cloths that they think will be accepted by the people around them. If a guy started to wear a dress, he would not be accepted by anyone, and would be avoided by everyone as being a freak. So people wear what others accept as normal behavior for them.” This suddenly made sense to me now. I had to dress as a girl, because that was what people were expecting me to do at school, because I was turned into a girl to them. But I still felt that I was a boy inside. But to some people, like Johnny, I would also be a freak, no matter how I dressed. It also now made sense about my new friends from the bar. They were who they were. The collected themselves at the bar to be with people like themselves, that thought that each other was normal and not freaks. Because most other people just didn’t understand what they felt inside.

“People dress either as they have to around other people, to be accepted by them. Some people like soldiers, and me, dress like that are ordered to. But some people feel the opposite inside, so dress like they feel inside, instead of what they appear outside.” I added.

“That’s very good Alice, an example of the first, is everybody in this school. An example of the second, is soldiers, as Alice said, but also Mr. Dibble, and Alice. And an example of the third group would be what we call a cross-dresser. Now the first group also has a sub-group of people in it. Although dressed normal, some are very poorly dressed. They are not what we would consider high fashion. Boys are notorious for dressing poorly. While people in the third group are sometimes hard to tell they are cross-dressers. There are some cross-dressers that make better-looking girls than real girls.

“There have also been women in history that have dressed as men. That’s because in the past, a woman was treated more like property, than as a human being. You girls have no idea how lucky you are today, to not have to marry who ever your father said to marry. It high society of British and early America, people were very concern about it. You need to read a book called Pride and Prejudice to get an example of how woman were. Even in the late 1900’s woman were very concerned about getting the right husband to notice them.”

I zoned out again as Mrs. Kims lectured on. I was thinking about Friday again, and being able to be Alvin.

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