Liv’s classmate Jane is a horrible bully to Liv and to countless other meek students at their school, yet the school administration seems to ignore this entirely.īetter to focus on what female students wear to school than on one or two bullies who terrorize everyone.Īnd the principal saying that he has “bigger issues” at the school than to allow girls to wear pants just sounds like a complete cop-out. Nevertheless, I do think the book delivers an important message about gender roles and what we consider “normal” in society. Liv’s new friend Jacob is equally dull, even though I was thankful to him for being so cool when Liv tells him he is transgender. I liked Liv and especially her two moms, but they didn’t really sparkle as characters as in other similar books I’ve read. I can’t imagine being forced to wear a skirt all the time.įor me, The Pants Project is a very needed story, but in all honesty, it’s a little lackluster. I personally love skirts and dresses, but I’m glad I can wear pants if I desire. Our “mother school” in London has the same uniform requirements as my school. It’s not a China thing–Chinese students wear street clothes or tracksuits to school–it’s an expensive British private school thing. But like Liv’s school in the book, my school also requires female students to wear skirts only. REVIEW OF THE PANTS PROJECTīefore I moved overseas, I would never have believed that in 2016, a school would not allow female students to wear pants. Determined to change the school’s outdated policy, Liv starts the Pants Project, a campaign to allow pants for all students that may lead to Liv’s coming out as a boy, officially. Unfortunately, Liv’s new school requires girls to wear a uniform skirt, something Liv simply cannot tolerate.
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