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Published: February 16, 2024

Middle School Boy Punished for Wearing ‘Two Genders’ T-Shirt Takes Case Before Appeals Court

By The Editor

A Massachusetts 8th grader has urged a federal appeal court to protect his First Amendment right to free speech after he was allegedly kicked out of school for wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words, “There are only two genders.”

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is representing 13-year-old Liam Morrison.The group argued before a 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Boston last Friday that school officials at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough violated the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment by censoring him when he expressed his viewpoint.

According to the nonprofit law firm, Morrison, who is now in the eighth grade, expressed that “There are only two sexes, male and female—and that a person’s gender—their status as a boy or girl, woman or man—is inextricably tied to biological sex.”

As CBN News reported in March 2023, Morrison wore a shirt to school stating “There are only two genders.”

The principal of the school, along with a school counselor, pulled Morrison out of class and ordered him to remove his shirt.

After Morrison politely declined, school officials said that he had to remove his shirt or he could not return to class.

As a result, Morrison left school and missed the

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