# Girls starting developing earlier? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 20, 2004, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-starting-developing-earlier/255980 "2004-07-20T10:48:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-starting-developing-earlier/255980/21 "2004-07-22T14:18:21Z")
> [@lemon\_martini2](#): > > at our school **boys and girls got changed together in the same rooms**. I find that hard - if not impossible - to believe and wouldn’t be surprised if **Omega** feels the same way. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-starting-developing-earlier/255980/22 "2004-07-22T14:19:38Z")
Or everyone else here, for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![lemon\_martini2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@lemon\_martini2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lemon_martini2)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-starting-developing-earlier/255980/23 "2004-07-22T14:48:29Z")
Well it was a British public school(that’s a private school for you Yanks) It was only during the summer for swimming,up to about 12 or 13 and they stopped it in about 1992.I know plenty of primary schools still change the kids in the classrooms,but I haven’t encountered any other secondary schools.I thought somewhere like Summerhill might… ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-starting-developing-earlier/255980/24 "2004-07-22T15:10:27Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#): > > I find that hard - if not impossible - to believe and wouldn’t be surprised if **Omega** feels the same way. You’re right. I took **lemon’s** “getting changed with the girls” comment to mean that he _was_ a girl. No school in the U.S. would allow this unless they were looking for a lawsuit. I definitely couldn’t see letting boys and girls change for swimming together, since people take off their underwear before putting on their suits. Intresting school that you went to… ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-starting-developing-earlier/255980/25 "2004-07-22T15:20:04Z")
Interesting :smack: I forgot to say thanks for the links Jeff. ---
**Author:** ![Mithril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mithril/32/3517_2.png) [@Mithril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithril)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-starting-developing-earlier/255980/26 "2004-07-22T15:31:13Z")
I went to Catholic school, and we all got changed in the classroom with the boys and girls together. But we had to wear our gym uniforms under our school uniforms, so it was just a matter of unbuttoning a blouse and sliding off a skirt. No nudity at all. If you came to school without having your gym uniform on, you were treated as not having brought it at all. That meant detention and an F for the day. We had no opportunity to go to a bathroom or a changing room. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-starting-developing-earlier/255980/27 "2004-07-22T17:42:04Z")
> [@Mithril](#): > > I went to Catholic school, and we all got changed in the classroom with the boys and girls together. But we had to wear our gym uniforms under our school uniforms, so it was just a matter of unbuttoning a blouse and sliding off a skirt. No nudity at all. Now that I can understand. > [@Omega Glory](#): > > I forgot to say thanks for the links Jeff. Quite welcome. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-starting-developing-earlier/255980.md?page=1)