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mahatmakanejeeves

(64,816 posts)
Tue May 27, 2025, 11:37 AM May 27

Supreme Court rejects student's challenge to 'two genders' T-shirt ban

Source: NBC News

SUPREME COURT
Supreme Court rejects student's challenge to 'two genders' T-shirt ban

A middle school student in Massachusetts was told he could not wear the T-shirt based on the school's dress code, which forbids hate speech.

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May 27, 2025, 9:47 AM EDT
By Lawrence Hurley

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a Massachusetts student's challenge to his middle school's prohibition on him wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan "There are only two genders." ... The case arose from student Liam Morrison's dispute with Nichols Middle School in Middleborough.

Lawyers for Morrison at the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group, say students were "bombarded" with messages promoting the view "that sex and gender are self-defined, limitless, and unmoored from biology."

Morrison believes that view is "false and harmful" and responded in March 2023 when he was in seventh grade by wearing the T-shirt. After he was told to remove it, he later wore another shirt that said "There are [censored] genders." ... Morrison was not punished for wearing the shirts, although he was told he could not wear them in class and was sent home when he refused to remove the first one.

Two conservative members of the court, Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito, dissented from the decision not to hear the case.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna194212



https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/052725zor_p8k0.pdf

Hat tip, Joe. My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/05/scotus-rejects-hate-groups-anti-trans-shirt-appeal/

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Supreme Court rejects student's challenge to 'two genders' T-shirt ban (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 27 OP
Let's see, one victory in ten is just not any kind of common-sense "return to normalcy" wolfie001 May 27 #1
Hate group manipulating child. Trying it on, so to speak. cbabe May 27 #2
Wonder where he got that chit from. Silent Type May 27 #3
There was no one aware of that issue when I was near that grade bucolic_frolic May 27 #4
"'two genders' T-shirt" J_William_Ryan May 27 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author fujiyamasan May 27 #6

Silent Type

(9,699 posts)
3. Wonder where he got that chit from.
Tue May 27, 2025, 11:48 AM
May 27
With mom and dad:

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bucolic_frolic

(50,641 posts)
4. There was no one aware of that issue when I was near that grade
Tue May 27, 2025, 12:33 PM
May 27

One faculty preached Armageddon, but I don't even know if students connected it to the Bible. And it was done after hours, quietly, like here's some inside dope, not mentioned in class.

J_William_Ryan

(2,772 posts)
5. "'two genders' T-shirt"
Tue May 27, 2025, 01:00 PM
May 27

Another example of the fascist right indoctrinating young people into the conservative culture of intolerance, bigotry, and hate.

It also comes as no surprise that the Christian right comes to the defense of conservative hate speech.

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