CNN – A Pennsylvania high school student had the experience of a lifetime at prom, but not in the way she and her family expected.
She got tossed out of the event -- for challenging a dress code.
Ever since Aniya Wolf was a little girl, she has dressed like a boy.
"I've just always been like this, ever since I was little," Wold said.
She is not transgender -- she was born a girl and feels like a girl.
She is a lesbian who doesn't want to wear girly clothes.
"I was always more masculine. You wouldn't catch me playing with any Barbie dolls I'll tell you that right now," Wold said.
Throughout her three years at Bishop McDevitt High School her school uniform was strictly a shirt and pants.
Then something suddenly changed, the Wolf family says.
They say a last-minute email explained girls had to wear a dress to prom.
Aniya's mom called the school.
"I told her that I had read the dress code that was given to the students and I didn't think that it precluded her from wearing a suit," Carolyn Wolf said. "I said that this was very unfair particularly at the last minute. We had gone out and bought a new suit. I think my daughter is beautiful in a suit."
Aniya had been looking forward to this night for so long, so she decided to go anyway.
She was thrown out.
She says a school official took her by the arm and said she was going to call police.
So Aniya left.
"You know a lot of girls' dresses -- I mean I'm not saying that all of them are this way -- but they do show a lot of skin. I think I'm dressed pretty modestly," she said.
School officials said in a statement that prom dress code was sent to parents about three months ago, and a reminder was sent on March 6.
Aniya said she feels very accepted by her fellow students, but school officials made her feel "like a mistake."