Middleborough Public Schools in Massachusetts sent 12-year-old Liam Morrison home from school one day in March for wearing a T-shirt that supposedly violated the dress code. Staff had pulled him aside, told him it was making other students feel unsafe, and asked him to remove it, but he refused.
Morrison didn’t disrupt any activities or behave in any other way the school found objectionable, so one would expect his shirt to be very inappropriate. But it didn’t depict graphic violence or nudity or convey hatred toward a group of people. It bore a statement of fact that people Morrison's age typically learn in their biology classes: “There Are Only Two Genders.
“School administrators were well within their discretion to conclude that the statement 'THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS' may communicate that only two gender identities … are valid, and any others are invalid or nonexistent,” Talwani wrote, “and to conclude that students who identify differently, whether they do so openly or not, have a right to attend school without being confronted by messages attacking their identities.
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