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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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.
HILLSDALE CANNOT BUILD SCHOOLS FAST ENOUGH
“Do they allow kids to wear a shirt with a trans flag?”
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Allowed? It’s probably more like shall wear.
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.
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.
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).
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?
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.
How about how the concepts make Liam feel?
"There are FIVE genders!!!"
-PJ
I wondered when you used the term "concept" if you were being intentionally vague; and it now appears likely. You get the last word.
how many kids did they kick out for wearing a pride shirt? 0?
huh. seems a little strange doesn’t it?
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
No. They encourage it.
Gonna be interesting to see how it plays out with the Supreme Court.
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
So if the shirt showed text in Spanish would the statement “En español hay dos géneros” be okay?
No shirt to for anyone to find "offensive".
Thanks!!
“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.
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