Schools ridiculous response to student's T shirt saying thee are only 2 genders
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Liam Morrison, a then-12-year-old student, found himself at the center of a First Amendment battle when his Middleborough school banned his t-shirt stating, “There are only two genders.”
As he explained in a video premiered in October 2023, “Like my teachers and principal, I have my own opinions, and I have a right to express those opinions even at school. This right is called free speech. It’s protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.” When the principal deemed the shirt’s message potentially disruptive, insisting it “might make some students feel unsafe,” Liam was asked to change or leave school.
Undeterred, he later wore a shirt reading, “There are [censored] genders” to protest the censorship, only to face another ban. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), representing Liam, argued in their Supreme Court petition that “L.M. sought to participate in his school’s marketplace of ideas and address sociopolitical matters in a passive, silent, and untargeted way.”
The Court’s refusal to hear the case, however, has left Liam’s fight for free expression unresolved, raising questions about students’ rights to challenge prevailing narratives.
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It must be embarrassing for the officials at a school to be less intelligent than a 12-year-old student who is, without doubt, correct that there are only two genders. The school leaders must be pandering to those with gender dysphoria, but that is no excuse for banning a t-shirt that accurately describes the facts. The court should have ruled in favor of Liam Morrison.
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