Posted on 06/11/2024 9:05:30 AM PDT by lowbridge
The local middle schooler who was barred from wearing an “only two genders” shirt to school has lost his federal appeals case, as his attorneys consider a Supreme Court appeal.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit in Boston has ruled against Middleboro student
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Liam, now in 8th grade, last year was banned by school officials from wearing a shirt to school that read, “There are only two genders.” The 7th grader then wore a shirt that stated, “There are censored genders,” and again, he was ordered to take off the shirt.
A U.S. district judge previously ruled in favor of the Middleboro school officials, and the appeals court over the weekend affirmed the district court’s ruling.
“This case is about much more than a t-shirt,” a lawyer for the Massachusetts Family Institute said in response to the appeals court ruling. “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.”
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The Middleboro school district each year celebrates Pride month, hanging Pride flags and sending the message that there are “an unlimited number of genders,” one of Liam’s lawyers had argued in front of the appeals court.
In response to the school’s view, Liam wore the controversial shirt to Nichols Middle School last year.
School officials in response to the shirt told Liam to either take off the shirt or leave school for the day. Liam chose to miss the rest of his classes that day. When the Middleboro principal pulled Liam out of class and told him he had to take off his shirt, the principal said they had received complaints about the words on his shirt — and that the words might make some students feel unsafe.
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and that the words might make some students feel unsafe.
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Well, those same words are in the Dissionary.
That book soon to be banned.
I know. Drives me nuts too.
"Controversial" means "anything leftists don't like".
His shirt is "controversial". The schools faggotry banners aren't.
The propaganda is incessant, insidious, and pervasive.
Do they allow kids to wear a shirt with a trans flag?
I think he needs to due based on the concept that Pride month, hanging Pride flags and sending the message that there are “an unlimited number of genders” makes him feel unsafe.
“Gender” is a grammatical term. There actually are three genders; masculine, feminine and neutral. Neutral gender is when something is neither masculine or feminine gender.
“Sex” is a biological term. There are two sexes; male and female.
Educated men know the difference between sex and gender.
Four.
It has always been this way with the left. They always want compromise, but they never compromise. They just want us to give up more and more of our freedoms and liberty and money. They never give anything up.
There are four genders: masculine, feminine, neuter and common.
“...Massachusetts is lost....”
It’s been lost since the spring of 1974 or so....give/take a couple of years.
Nothing exists there now except unadulterated, pure MassHoles that want to tell everyone else how to live....spit.
Common is a recent redundant addition...
If gender was not obvious it defaulted to one of the three. Mostly masculine or neuter. Sometimes the feminine as with ships.
Indeed, he was at least up to 1970*. This instance vivdly underscores
(1) the danger of reading the U.S. Constitution as a "living document"; and, perhaps,
(2) tells us why a recent USSC nominee could not define "woman".
* Wikipedia: It was in the 1970s that feminist scholars adopted the term gender as way of distinguishing "socially constructed" aspects of male–female differences (gender) from "biologically determined" aspects (sex).[1]
The concept goes back thousands of years.
I was thinking the same.
Perhaps local churches that have students attending could start complaining that all the Pride and LBGT propaganda makes them feel unsafe.
Actually four genders; masculine, feminine, neuter, and common.
You were correct on the sex thing.
I guess I’ll be seeing you in federal court after we are served for our threatening, hateful speech.
Best thing that could happen to him personally. A slap on the fanny of a newborn conservative.
All my life, our schools in our suburb considered 6th, 7th & 8th as “middle school.”
Yeah...what about daughters in spaces for girls that don’t feel safe? Selective outrage. Tell them to get a thicker skin, in life you’ll be confronted with all kinds of WORDS that you don’t like.
This is nuts.
See post 32. Common gender is superfluous and reactionary. Why not add animate gender? There are 3.
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