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Tradition v. "Tradition"
17 November 2004
TWIRP ("The Woman Is Requested to Pay") Day is canceled in a small Texas school district, after a parent complained that the school Homecoming Week tradition of a "social-role reversal" encouraged cross-dressing and homosexuality. The Plano-based Liberty Legal Institute issued a press statement stating that it had come to the aid of "concerned parent," Delana Davies, who worried about such "experimentation" with cross dressing. Said Davies, "'If it's OK to dress like a girl today, then why is it not OK in the future?'"

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