Male(22) here, my girlfriend(22) is in her last year of college as an athletic training major.
She's in a lab and they're doing ekg (I think) training/demonstrations today and they have to have a male and female example but she's the only female in the class so she's pretty much being forced to be the example. The professor told her that she has to wear a sports bra because she'll need to take her shirt off, and she is (understandably) not comfortable doing that in front of a bunch of guys. She said that she'll fail the lab if she doesn't do it. I told her to refuse to do it and go to the head of the department or the dean of students and explain the situation.
Sorry for the long post and any bad formatting (I'm on mobile), but I just wanted to vent and get your thoughts and opinions on the situation because I think it is absolutely ridiculous that she's being put in this situation to begin with.
Edit: I was not expecting this to get so much attention, so thank you all for all of your replies! Apparently the class is not today but tomorrow so I will update you on what happens
Edit 2: Okay so I just talked to my girlfriend and got a better understanding of the situation. There are actually two instructors for the lab and they're both males around 25 years old. I was incorrect about her being the only female in the class. The instructors split the class into two groups for this and her group is mostly male football players with a few other females. The instructors chose her to be the example because the other females are apparently "bigger" and the instructors don't want to make them uncomfortable (but apparently it's okay for my girlfriend to be /s). The instructors did not say that she would fail if she refused to be the example, but she is afraid that she'll lose points. My girlfriend also told me that the instructors usually mess with her in class (not in a bad way, but how teachers do with students they like), and now they chose her to be the example for this.
As you can tell, I am obviously not okay with this but she most definitely is not either. She decided that she is going to refuse to be the example and if anything negative comes of it she'll go to higher-ups.
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