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Massachusetts middle schooler banned from wearing ‘only two genders’ shirt loses federal appeals case
bostonherald.com ^ | June 10, 2024 | RICK SOBEY

Posted on 06/11/2024 9:05:30 AM PDT by lowbridge

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To: HYPOCRACY
He’d fail an English exam as there are three genders and two sexes.

He probably hasn't studied German or Russian. In English, gender applies only to pronouns. In German, it applies to nouns, and in Russian, gender also applies to verbs. The gender of most nouns in Russian is obvious by their spelling, but unfortunately, that's not the case for German.

41 posted on 06/11/2024 10:05:42 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: lowbridge

HILLSDALE CANNOT BUILD SCHOOLS FAST ENOUGH


42 posted on 06/11/2024 10:06:43 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: circlecity

“Do they allow kids to wear a shirt with a trans flag?”
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Allowed? It’s probably more like shall wear.


43 posted on 06/11/2024 10:10:46 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: lowbridge

What kind of unprincipled thought asserts a person’s feelings negate the individual’s Right to express a thought? With our schools destroying the child’s ability to think in principles before the age of 14, there will be no citizens left to defend the Individual Rights upon which this country is founded. Just a mob of hurt feelings trumping other hurts feelings. Mob rule here we come.


44 posted on 06/11/2024 10:26:34 AM PDT by The Westerner ("Communists no longer must hide the plan to destroy American Capitalism," says BHO)
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To: Fuzz
The concept goes back thousands of years.

The only concept that went back thousands of years was the use of "gender" as describing M and R sex (biological) and also as it was used in the study of science or languages.

It wasn't until the 70's when "gender" became a social construct when describing M and F, i.e., the word can mean as "we think fashionable".

Notice also the trend is now to refer to an individual's sex not in terms of biological but in terms of, "assigned sex at birth"...how cute.

45 posted on 06/11/2024 10:29:41 AM PDT by frog in a pot ("a (NBC), or Citizen of the (US), at the time of the Adoption of this Const." - has a meaning.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Actually in modern English there are no grammatical genders, only holdovers in sex based pronouns and masculine generalizations (eg mankind, man, and using he/him as a pronoun for an unknown person).


46 posted on 06/11/2024 10:31:07 AM PDT by rmichaelj (Ave Maria gratia plena, Dominus tecum.)
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To: frog in a pot

The idea that some people do not fit into just two sexual or gender categories that are attracted to the opposite one does go back thousands of years, all over the world, and long before science existed.

Why would religions invented thousands of years makes rules restricting behavior that didn’t exist?


47 posted on 06/11/2024 10:36:54 AM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Red Badger

If I recall the Supreme Court ruled on this around the Vietnam era. They said something to the effect that the kids “free speech rights do not end at the schoolhouse gate”.

ChatGPT helped me find it: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District in 1969. That case involved wearing black armbands. Hard to see much difference here with this T-Shirt. If there is a law or rule that defines multiple genders it is political and the kid has a right to protest that rule. Surprised an appeals court didn’t uphold the Tinker case.


48 posted on 06/11/2024 10:38:11 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: lowbridge
the words might make some students feel

How about how the concepts make Liam feel?

"There are FIVE genders!!!"

-PJ

49 posted on 06/11/2024 10:47:30 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Fuzz
Whoa! I am not denying homosexuality any more than I am denying the possibility of birth defects, but that is an entirely different issue.

I wondered when you used the term "concept" if you were being intentionally vague; and it now appears likely. You get the last word.

50 posted on 06/11/2024 10:57:26 AM PDT by frog in a pot ("a (NBC), or Citizen of the (US), at the time of the Adoption of this Const." - has a meaning.)
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To: lowbridge

how many kids did they kick out for wearing a pride shirt? 0?

huh. seems a little strange doesn’t it?


51 posted on 06/11/2024 11:03:08 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: frog in a pot

It’s all the same concept as in gender and sexuality deviations considered not normal

Been around forever. Documented thousands of years ago. It’s a minority of the population but not new. It didn’t start in the 70s because of feminism


52 posted on 06/11/2024 11:03:44 AM PDT by Fuzz
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To: circlecity

No. They encourage it.


53 posted on 06/11/2024 11:05:04 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: lowbridge
I thought the Tinker decision had already long ago settled this kind of thing.

Gonna be interesting to see how it plays out with the Supreme Court.

54 posted on 06/11/2024 11:06:03 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("If they can do that to Trump then they can do that to YOU." -- Lazamataz)
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To: lowbridge
LOL!

If Cankles had won in 2016, this is what was coming for ALL of us.

Four "judges" - 3 Obama stooges and a Biden stooge.

APPEALS FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

[Indira Talwani, U.S. District Obama stooge]

goes to the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

Before
David Barron, Chief Obama Stooge, O. Rogeriee Thompson, Obama stooge and Lara Montecalvo, Biden stooge. First Circuit ruling:

https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/LM-AppellateRuling.pdf

55 posted on 06/11/2024 11:06:09 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4243607/posts?page=55#55


56 posted on 06/11/2024 11:06:27 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: rmichaelj; HYPOCRACY

So if the shirt showed text in Spanish would the statement “En español hay dos géneros” be okay?


57 posted on 06/11/2024 11:08:00 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: lowbridge
The kid needs to go in shirtless with XX ≠ XY written on his chest.

No shirt to for anyone to find "offensive".

58 posted on 06/11/2024 11:08:19 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: kiryandil

Thanks!!


59 posted on 06/11/2024 11:08:45 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("If they can do that to Trump then they can do that to YOU." -- Lazamataz)
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To: lee martell

“If I were the parent, I would be very careful having my son use his school day to make political statements of any kind, vs studying and passing the classes.”

One of the problems is that educators are telling students lies and requiring students to pretend they believe the lies.

This is wrong at every level. One important thing schools should be doing is teaching children how to think; and how to confront bullies that force children to go along with sexual deviancy.

Schools and union teachers are increasingly on the wrong side; the wrong side of everything.

That said, parents should take their children out of these school systems immediately; don’t fiddle around with loser government systems. They are dangerous and can’t be reformed.


60 posted on 06/11/2024 11:13:28 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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