Middle Schooler Censored for Saying There are Two Genders
Federal, state, and local governments are pushing a radical gender ideology that says gender is determined by our feelings rather than by biology. But perhaps most dangerous of all, some officials want to censor any debate regarding gender ideology—and this censorship has also made its way into schools.
Liam Morrison, a 12-year-old student at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts, is all too familiar with this censorship.
When Liam wore a T-shirt to school that said, “There are only two genders,” the school responded by promptly pulling him out of class and ordering him to remove his shirt. After Liam politely declined, school officials told him that if he didn’t remove his shirt, he wasn’t allowed back in class.
Liam refused to be censored—and missed the rest of his classes that day. After this incident, Liam wore another shirt to school that read “There are censored genders.”
Liam was peacefully protesting the fact that the school had tried to silence him for simply expressing his deeply held beliefs. But Liam was told he was not allowed to communicate this message at school, either.
Liam’s school doesn’t want him expressing a view that differs from the school’s chosen orthodoxy. And school officials are willing to silence him and violate his right to free speech to do so.
That’s why Alliance Defending Freedom and the Massachusetts Family Institute are suing the Town of Middleborough and school officials in federal court on behalf of Liam. Every student has a constitutional right to free speech.
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