It's sick for these adults to put anything on this young 8 year old girl. If they have such strong Christian policies at the school, then they should put all the students in a uniform. I always played in the streets, and didn't put on a dress unless there was a special reason to. For church on Sunday I wore a dress, and unless we were having special company over, it came off before I went out to play, and I was in pants and a shirt. I wasn't a real tomboy, but I didn't dress like a girly-girl either. I went to Catholic grade school, and everyone was in uniform.
I still dress to be comfortable and wear things appropriate for my everyday life. I am completely heterosexual, and the clothes do not make the person. The southern states tend to have strong Christian beliefs, and that's where these strict views of what a man and a woman should be like and act like come from. Their beliefs need to be updated, IMO, and many of them need a reality check...it is 2014 now.