Posted on 06/17/2023 3:30:26 PM PDT by DFG
On Friday, a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled a shirt that read "THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS" could be construed as bullying of a protected class and is not protected speech after a 12-year-old and his father filed suit against officials in the Middlesbrough Public School district for First and Fourteenth Amendment rights violations.
Judge Indira Talwani said in the court ruling, the boy and his father had "not established a likelihood of success on the merits where he is unable to counter Defendants’ showing that enforcement of the Dress Code was undertaken to protect the invasion of the rights of other students to a safe and secure educational environment."
"School administrators were well within their discretion to conclude that the statement 'THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS' may communicate that only two gender identities–male and female–are valid, and any others are invalid or nonexistent," the ruling continued, "and to conclude that students who identify differently, whether they do so openly or not, have a right to attend school without being confronted by messages attacking their identities."
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...
-PJ
These officials have faces and backgrounds. Here is her’s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Talwani
The judge is an Obama appointee and a graduate of Radcliffe and UC Berkeley Law School.
Her ruling should hardly come as a surprise. Truth is no defense against hurt feelings if the complaining party is a member of one of the “protected classes.”
Still most indians, do not love this country period
What idiocy.
A protected class!? I’m a protected class! I’m an American and as such NO ONE has more legal protection than me!
Complete asinine and retarded ruling.
It can in NO WAY be construed as bullying or hate speech.
Words escape me.
Judge must be a Marxist Dem.
That’s my line! But I didn’t get a copyright, DARN!
Most are.
Cess pool.
Conservatives choose judges by merit considerations. Democrats choose judges by Left activist credentials with a law degree.
This judge must be overturned more often than the 9th.
In linguistics, grammatical gender system is a specific form of noun class system, where nouns are assigned with gender categories that are often not related to their real-world qualities. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all nouns inherently carry one value of the grammatical category called gender; the values present in a given language (of which there are usually two or three) are called the genders of that language. Whereas some authors use the term "grammatical gender" as a synonym of "noun class", others use different definitions for each; many authors prefer "noun classes" when none of the inflections in a language relate to sex. Gender systems are used in approximately one half of the world's languages. According to one definition: "Genders are classes of nouns reflected in the behaviour of associated words."
This judge belongs on the bench in the holding cell.
Repeal 19.
Truth.
In English Profanity is the old British common words after the Norman conquest and subsequent demeaning of the local language by the foreign ruling class with its bastardized French.
Hypothetically ... How does my free speech invade your rights.
What could I possibly say that invades your rights?
Note that libel, slander, and credible threats have never been considered "free speech".
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