Same sex couple banned from the ball

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On the night of her school formal, Hannah Williams found herself all dressed up with nowhere to go.

After inviting friends to her home for ''pre-drinks'', the 16-year-old stood on her doorstep and watched her classmates file into the darkness to attend one of the highlights of the school year.

Instead of joining them, Hannah took off her heels and black dress and went to bed.

A few weeks earlier a teacher had told the year 11 student she couldn't attend the dance with her 15-year-old girlfriend, Savannah Supski. She was asked to bring a male instead. ''It made me very upset. I thought it was unfair so I didn't go,'' she said.

''I put a lot of effort into trying to fix things. I had meetings with principals; looked through the Equal Opportunity Act; all my friends put posters up around the school and the teachers ripped them down. There was an easy solution; they just needed to let me go with my girlfriend.''

So the interesting twist to this, besides the fact that apparently they don't do formals or proms they go to the ball in Australia is that this is an all girl's school. And the school's excuses/explanations were very hung up on how meeting boys was some really important part of this dance, even for a lesbian teen.

''The school kept saying because it is an all-girls school we want to make an event where they can meet boys in a social scenario,'' [her father] said. ''That process is anachronistic and creates feelings of discrimination among girls who are same-sex-attracted.''

Both girls are changing schools to be together.

The principal of Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar, Heather Schnagl, said the event did not discriminate against same-sex couples and was designed to promote a co-educational experience.

''I don't think it's appropriate they feel discriminated against, and I'm very upset they feel that,'' she said.

So we're supposed to feel bad for the principal for being upset that they're upset by something she doesn't think they should be upset about? Riiiiiiight. Ladies and gentlemen, this is why I tell people to fuck off.

As George Takei really and truly said (I love that man):