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Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

Chromatic v Westminster (PC-171): On the Criminalisation of Hair Dye


⟡ ADDENDUM: CHILD AUTONOMY IN APPEARANCE ⟡

Filed: 29 September 2025
Reference: SWANK/CENTRALFAMILYCOURT/CHILD-AUTONOMY-KING
Download PDF: 2025-09-29_Core_PC-171_Court_Addendum_ChildAutonomy_Appearance_King.pdf
Summary: A formal declaration that self-expression through appearance is not neglect, and that parental support for autonomy is not deviance. The Local Authority’s fixation on haircuts and piercings exposes its chronic inability to distinguish care from control.

I. What Happened

Westminster Children’s Services, in its latest feat of bureaucratic absurdity, has treated harmless matters — a haircut, a hair dye, an earring — as signals of parental deficiency.
This addendum clarifies, for the historical and judicial record, that such expressions of identity were made lawfully, safely, and with parental consent.
Kingdom’s chosen hairstyle and Regal’s wish to experiment with dye or piercings are emblematic not of neglect, but of self-knowledge — the kind Westminster appears pathologically unequipped to comprehend.

II. What the Document Establishes

• Children possess a right to personal autonomy in matters of harmless appearance.
• Parental guidance and consent were exercised properly under Children Act 1989 §§1–3.
• The Local Authority’s interference constitutes disproportionate intrusion under Article 8 ECHR.
• Restricting or shaming such choices amounts to emotional harm and violates the Equality Act 2010 §26 (harassment).
• The obsession with hairstyles while ignoring asthma neglect and emotional abuse reflects a failure of risk prioritisation under safeguarding law.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

• To affirm that dignity and choice are welfare imperatives, not aesthetic luxuries.
• To preserve a record of how institutional vanity mistakes colour for crisis.
• To demonstrate the Local Authority’s pattern of trivial fixation as retaliatory displacement.
• Because when bureaucracy polices hair, it forfeits legitimacy.

IV. Applicable Authorities & Standards

• Children Act 1989 s.1(3) – Welfare checklist includes child’s wishes and feelings.
• UNCRC Articles 12–13, 16 – Rights to be heard, to self-expression, and to privacy.
• UN General Comment No. 12 (2009) – Appearance is part of the child’s evolving capacity.
• ECHR Article 8 – Protection of private and family life.
• Equality Act 2010 s.26 – Harassment through ridicule of lawful expression.
• Bromley Family Law (15th ed.) – Parental responsibility is guidance, not domination.
• Amos Human Rights Law (2024) – Disproportionate interference breaches Convention standards.
• NICE Safeguarding Guidelines – Autonomy enhances recovery and resilience in trauma.

V. SWANK’s Position

This is not “concern.”
This is cosmetic authoritarianism.

SWANK rejects the infantilisation of children and the pathologising of colour.
We refuse to allow Westminster to equate expression with risk.
We document the trivial so that history may recognise its cruelty.

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And hair dye deserves due process.

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