Dress Code Violation
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a middle-school student’s claim he had a free-speech right to wear a T-shirt stating there are “only two genders.”
Over two dissents, the justices let stand a ruling that said a school may enforce a dress code to protect students from “hate speech” or bullying.
After three months of internal debate, the justices decided they would not take up another conservative culture-war challenge to progressive policies that protect LGBTQ+ youth.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. filed a 14-page dissent joined only by Justice Clarence Thomas. He said the case “presented an issue of great importance for our nation’s youth: whether public schools may suppress student speech because it expresses a viewpoint the schools disfavor.”
Liam Morrison, a seventh-grader from Massachusetts, said he was responding to his school’s promotion of Pride Month when students were encouraged to wear rainbow colors and posters urged them to “rise up to protect trans and gender-nonconforming students.”
Two years ago, he went to school wearing a black T-shirt that said “There are only two genders.”
A teacher reported him to the principal, who sent him home to change his shirt. A few weeks later, he returned with the word “censored” taped over the words “two genders” and was sent home again.
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School Dress Codes are fine. That issue has been settled for decades. The kids lawyers fought the wrong fight on this one. What the arguments should have and could have been been are:
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Do students have a right to not be insulted or offended at school? And if yes, then why aren’t the sensibilities of those that oppose this gender crap also count? Why do the LGBTQ kids get protected and those that think it’s bullshit not? This kid is allowed to be insulted but the LGBTQ kids don’t?
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Is science/biology offensive? I mean, would it be offensive if his shirt said “light travels at 299792458 m/s”? Because it does. I mean, that’s a fact. As is his shirt.
The Brad
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School Dress Codes are fine. That issue has been settled for decades. The kids lawyers fought the wrong fight on this one. What the arguments should have and could have been been are:
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Do students have a right to not be insulted or offended at school? And if yes, then why aren’t the sensibilities of those that oppose this gender crap also count? Why do the LGBTQ kids get protected and those that think it’s bullshit not? This kid is allowed to be insulted but the LGBTQ kids don’t?
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Is science/biology offensive? I mean, would it be offensive if his shirt said “light travels at 299792458 m/s”? Because it does. I mean, that’s a fact. As is his shirt.
@LuFins-Dad said in Dress Code Violation:
I mean, that’s a fact. As is his shirt.
Actually not really. ‘There are only two sexes’, sure. But gender is made-up-and-agreed-upon.
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