It's still disappointing that the city trusts men and boys to decide when their nipples should be visible in public, but does not have the same respect for women and girls.

Tony Rothert, legal director of the ACLU of Missouri, which is deciding whether to appeal a recent ruling that Springfield's ordinance allowing men, but not women, to show their nipples in public does not violate the Equal Protection Clause, which requires men and women to be treated as equals.