Democrat Judges Rule Middle Schooler’s ‘Only Two Genders’ T-Shirt can be Censored by School
(LifeSiteNews) — A federal court ruled in favor of a Massachusetts school district that banned a student from wearing a shirt stating the biological fact that “There are only two genders.”
Chief Judge David Barron, an Obama appointee, ruled that school administrators have leeway under the First Amendment to regulate content that might allegedly be “demeaning.”
He was joined by fellow Obama appointee Judge Ojetta Thompson and Biden appointee Judge Lara Montecalvo. Judge Barron previously blamed the student’s shirt for “threatening messages” left at the school, according to NBC News’ paraphrase of his comments.
However, advocates of the student blasted the First Circuit Court of Appeals, saying it erred in the case L.M. v. Town of Middleborough.
Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented student Liam Morrison, said an appeal is likely. Morrison, after being told not to wear the first shirt, later wore a shirt saying, “There are [censored] genders.”
“Students don’t lose their free speech rights the moment they walk into a school building,” Senior Counsel David Cortman stated in a news release, responding to the Sunday ruling.
“This case isn’t about T-shirts; it’s about a public school telling a middle-schooler that he isn’t allowed to express a view that differs from their own,” Cortman stated. “The school actively promotes its view about gender through posters and ‘Pride’ events, and it encourages students to wear clothing with messages on the same topic—so long as that clothing expresses the school’s preferred views on the subject.”
“Our legal system is built on the truth that the government cannot silence any speaker just because it disapproves of what they say,” Cortman stated. “The 1st Circuit erred in its decision denying L.M. his right to free speech, and we are reviewing all legal options including appealing this decision.”
An attorney who often has represented liberal causes in the federal court system also criticized the judge’s decision.
The Supreme Court has previously ruled in favor of student free speech rights on contentious issues. For example, in 1969, the Court ruled in Tinker v. Des MoinesIndependent Community School District that students could wear black armbands to school in protest of the war in Vietnam. In 2021, the Supreme Court ruled in B.L. v. Mahanoy Area School District in favor of a student who was punished for posting vulgar comments on her personal social media while off-campus.
“The decision substantially lowers the bar for allowing school authorities to censor student speech considered ‘demeaning,’ even if it doesn’t target any particular student or students, and even if it is not disruptive,” Robert Corn-Revere with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression told LifeSiteNews via email. FIRE submitted a brief in support of Morrison.
“And it empowers school officials to impose what views will be orthodox,” Corn-Revere said. “The holding is inconsistent with Tinker, which held that neither students nor teachers shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate, and with the Supreme Court’s more recent holding in Mahanoy Area School District.”
The Massachusetts Family Institute, which supports Morrison, also criticized the decision.
“This case is about much more than a t-shirt,” the group wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “The court’s decision is not only a threat to the free speech rights of public school students across the country, but a threat to basic biological truths. While we are disappointed in this decision, we aren’t done fighting yet.”
“While we are disappointed in this decision, we aren’t done fighting yet,” the group also wrote in a statement. “Along with our partners at Alliance Defending Freedom, we are reviewing all legal options, including appealing to the United States Supreme Court. Please pray for continued strength for Liam and his family, as well as wisdom for our legal team.”
‘Are their feelings more important than my rights?’ Morrison says
Morrison’s expression of the biological reality of sex and his subsequent punishment last year attracted further attention after Libs of TikTok posted a powerful speech he gave in front of the school board.
“I was told that people were complaining about the words on my shirt, that my shirt was making some students feel ‘unsafe,’” he said. “Yes, words on a shirt made people feel unsafe. They told me that I wasn’t in trouble, but it sure felt like I was.”
“What did my shirt say? Five simple words: ‘There are only two genders.’ Nothing harmful, nothing threatening. Just a statement I believe to be a fact. I have been told that my shirt was targeting a protected class,” he said.
“Who is this ‘protected class’? Are their feelings more important than my rights?”
Eight Illegal Aliens, Suspected to be Terrorists, Arrested in New York, Philadelphia & Los Angeles
Ever since 9/11, the United States government via the Patriot Act has been illegally spying on Americans under the guise of fighting terrorism. Why, then, do illegal aliens continue to flood the country with reckless abandon?
The latest illegal alien incident occurred in three major U.S. cities – New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles – where eight men from Tajikistan, suspected to have connections to ISIS, were arrested.
For months before their arrest, the men were under surveillance by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and Customs Enforcement after they strolled across America’s open southern border in the spring of 2023, compliments of the Biden regime.
According to reports, none of the men have yet been charged with any kind of terrorist connection or plot. However, the FBI reportedly alerted ICE that the men could be connected to ISIS and should thus be arrested on immigration charges.
Two sources familiar with the matter who spoke with NBC News said the men are detained and now face removal proceedings before an immigration judge. At some point in the future, the men could also face terrorism-related charges.
(Related: Meanwhile, politicians are devoting their time to criminalizing “hate speech” with stricter punishments.)
FBI warning of “coordinated attack” in major U.S. cities
The news of this comes just months after FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Congress that his agency fears a “coordinated attack” in major U.S. cities. Just prior to that warning, ISIS, or so we are told, attacked a concert hall in Moscow, killing 145 people.
“Our most immediate concern has been that individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks here at home,” Wray told a House Appropriations subcommittee back in April.
“But now, increasingly concerning is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, akin to the ISIS-K attack we saw at the Russia concert hall a couple weeks ago.”
As all of this is happening, an Iranian intelligence officer by the name of Majid Dastjani Farahani is said to still be on the loose with plans to “kill Trump-era officials,” according to the media.
Much like what happened in the aftermath of 9/11, we are witnessing what appears to be the makings of another “war on terror” situation where the powers that be want us all to be fearful of ISIS or whatever boogeyman they trot out next so that we will sacrifice more of our freedoms of the altar of “peace and safety.”
If the government was really concerned about the threat of terror, it would close the southern border and stop the illegal invasion that fuels terror incidents in the first place.
Do not forget that these eight now-detained men are just a drop in the bucket. At least 434,800 migrants have been flown directly into the U.S. via the Biden regime’s CHNV mass parole program. They hail from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
“And a huge number of them are going to Florida,” someone wrote on X about these migrants. “It’s intentional replacement and overwhelming American states with a flood of third world nationals.”
“Problem, reaction, solution,” wrote another about the nightmare being unleashed on America. “The government allows millions to illegally come into the country, now they have to pass laws to take everyone’s freedom away. All by design.”
Instead of dealing with the real problems this country faces, the powers that be are instead prosecuting children for leaving tire marks on LGBT “rainbow” street murals and going after supporters of Donald Trump – imagine that, emphasized someone else.
Illegal immigration is destroying America. Learn more at InvasionUSA.news.
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