Student sues middle school over his right to wear anti-trans t-shirts

[Back in the closet fags!]

They violated his rights and everyone who did should be fired.

Lawyers for Liam Morrison say the school’s policy against clothing
featuring discriminatory language violates his First Amendment rights.

A student in Massachusetts is suing his middle school for the right to
wear t-shirts featuring anti-transgender messages.

Lawyers for Liam Morrison are asking a court to issue a preliminary
injunction to prevent Nichols Middle School in Middleborough,
Massachusetts from enforcing a ban on t-shirts that are “likely to be
considered discriminatory, harassing and/or bullying to others,”
Boston.com reports. The lawyers contend that the school’s policy, as
applied to Morrison earlier this year, constitutes “viewpoint
discrimination” and infringes on his First Amendment right to free speech.

According to the complaint filed last month by the Alliance Defending
Freedom (ADF) and the Massachusetts Family Institute on behalf of
Morrison, the 12-year-old believes “that there are only two sexes, male
and female, and that a person’s gender (their status as a boy or girl, man
or woman) is inextricably tied to sex.”

In March, Morrison wore a t-shirt bearing the words “There are only two
genders” to school. He was told by the school’s acting principal that
other students had complained about the shirt, and he was sent home after
refusing to remove it.

The student’s father later wrote an email to Middleborough Superintendent
Carolyn Lyons asking why his son had been sent home for wearing the shirt.
In her response, Lyons said that the message on Morrison’s t-shirt
“targeted students of a protected class; namely in the area of gender
identity.”

“While I cannot share the numbers or names of students and staff that
complained about this shirt,” Lyons wrote, “I can assure you that there
were several students and several staff who did.”

At an April 13 school committee meeting, Morrison defended his right to
wear the t-shirt. “I have been told that my shirt was targeting a
protected class,” he said. “Who is this protected class? Are their
feelings more important than my rights? I don’t complain when I see Pride
flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why?
Because others have a right to their beliefs just as I do.”

Later that month, Morrison’s lawyers also contacted Lyons to let her know
that the student intended to wear the t-shirt again on May 5 and asked
that she confirm in writing that he would be allowed to do so. Lawyers for
the school responded that school officials would continue to enforce its
policy banning the shirt.

On May 5, Morrison showed up to class wearing a t-shirt featuring the
words “There are censored genders.” When he was again called to the
principal’s office, he agreed to remove the shirt and wear another.

Morrison’s lawyers filed their lawsuit on May 19.

“This isn’t about a t-shirt; this is about a public school telling a
seventh grader that he isn’t allowed to hold a view that differs from the
school’s orthodoxy,” Logan Spena, legal counsel for ADF said in a
statement. “Public school officials can’t force Liam to remove a shirt
that states his position when the school lets every other student wear
clothing that speaks on the same issue. Their choice to double down and
silence him when he tried to protest their censorship is a gross violation
of the First Amendment that we’re urging the court to rectify.”

A hearing regarding the motion for a preliminary injunction took place on
Tuesday in Massachusetts District Court. Boston.com reported. While a
judge has not yet issued a ruling, Morrison’s lawyers told Boston’s NBC10
that based on the judge’s comments, it seemed unlikely that he would be
allowed to wear the shirt at school.

Meanwhile, trans activist Mason Dunn told NBC10 that Morrison’s attorneys
are wrong to compare his t-shirt, which he said could incite violence,
with Pride flags.

“Messages of Pride are messages of support, messages of affirmation,” Dunn
said, “not messages of hate or bias.”

ADF is a conservative Christian legal group that regularly files lawsuits
opposing any expansion of LGBTQ+ civil rights.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/student-sues-middle-school-over-his-
right-to-wear-anti-trans-t-shirts/

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I agree with that school. They should spray paint FAGGOT on the
foreheads of the little wannabe queers and make them walk home naked.

The Chino Valley Unified School District in California is considering a
policy that would require teachers to out transgender students, something
that would contradict the state’s education policies and could expose
closeted students to disapproving and potentially abusive parents.

The proposed policy would require school officials to notify parents and
guardians in writing within three days of their child’s request to use a
name, gendered pronouns, or bathrooms that don’t match the gender they
were assigned at birth.

“This policy is meant to foster trust between district employees, and our
students’ parents and guardians,” said District Board President Sonja Shaw
in a statement, according to The Sacramento Bee. “I stand for the
authority of parents to guide the upbringing of their children and their
involvement in decisions related to their education, health, safety, and
wellbeing.”

The policy is supported by several anti-LGBTQ+ groups, including the
California Family Council, a group that considers gender-affirming care
for trans youth a form of “medical abuse;” the Pacific Justice Institute,
which opposes bans on conversion therapy; and Moms for Liberty, a so-
called “anti-woke, parents’ rights” group that has recently been labeled
as an extremist organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Jorge Reyes Salinas, communications director of the LGBTQ+ advocacy group
Equality California, called the district’s proposal “truly sick” and said
it “directly, blatantly goes against state law.”

The California Department of Education’s (CDE) website states that
“schools must consult with a transgender student to determine who can or
will be informed of the student’s transgender status, if anyone, including
the student’s family.”

The CDE states that “schools are required to respect the student’s wishes”
and adds that in some “very rare circumstances where a school believes
there is a specific and compelling ‘need to know,’ the school should
inform the student that the school intends to disclose the student’s
transgender status [to their parents or guardians], giving the student the
opportunity to make that disclosure [themselves].”

In April, the school board met and voted 4-1 to support a now-defunct
state bill that would’ve similarly required educators to out trans
students to their parents. The bill was introduced by state Assemblyman
Bill Essayli (R). After his bill died in a state committee, Essayli said
he would encourage to pursue similar school policies at the local level.

One mother at the April school board meeting said, “Our children are
struggling with gender identity, we as parents need to know — it is
absolutely crucial.”

However, Chino High School valedictorian Daniel Moore said, “Forcing
teachers to out trans kids to their parents put them at risk, risk of
being disowned, kicked out, and even harmed,” CBS News reported.

School districts in New Jersey and Florida have similar policies requiring
educators to out their LGBTQ+ students. Indiana recently signed a similar
student-outing policy into law. Republican legislators also passed a
similar nationwide bill which has no chance of passing the Democrat-led
Senate.

Right-wing groups have said such policies are needed to prevent schools
from “secretly” “encouraging” students to change genders without their
parents’ knowledge. However, medical experts say that transgender and non-
binary youth don’t transition just because their peers and adult figures
pressure them to do so.

A 2022 Trevor Project survey revealed that only 32% of trans and nonbinary
youths felt that their home was a supportive and gender-affirming
environment.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/school-district-may-adopt-policy-to-
out-trans-students-to-their-parents/