Tue Jun 6, 2023 – 4:33 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A 12-year-old boy who was forced by his school to remove a t-shirt with the words “there are only two genders” recently had his court initial request to be allowed to practice his First Amendment rights denied.
Liam Morrison, a seventh grader in Middleborough, Massachusetts, took legal action against the town and John T. Nichols Jr. Middle School officials for silencing his unpopular opinion and violating his Constitutional right to free speech. During a preliminary hearing last week, a judge denied the boy’s request to order the school to respect his rights and allow him to wear the shirt, pending litigation.
Wednesday’s ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston was preliminary, and the case is ongoing. Had the request been granted, the boy would have been able to freely express his views at school while litigation continued and before a final ruling had been made.
“A judge denied Liam Morrison’s request to immediately wear his ‘Two Genders’ shirt to school again,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the law firm representing the boy and his family in the case, wrote on Twitter.
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