New England schools punish students for wearing ‘There Are Only 2 Genders’ shirts (Copy)
Government school employees’ behavior can sometimes be corrected, sadly, only through litigation. Even then, parents must be careful. Winning on one issue doesn’t fix the underlying problem.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two brave students bucking the woke value systems of their schools in two different New England states were both disciplined for wearing shirts that say, “There Are Only 2 Genders.”
One of the schools, Peoples Academy in Morristown, Vermont, backed down in the face of legal threats from a Christian civil rights group. The other, in Middleborough, Massachusetts, continues its speech-negating policy.
L.M. v. Town of Middleborough involves the exact same “Only 2 Genders” shirt as in the Vermont case. The school refused to recognize a middle-school boy’s First Amendment rights and the student, “L.M.” sued but lost in the lower courts.
Truth is no defense in a system as corrupt as public education. The only real solution is homeschooling or private schooling. But we are grateful for Christian legal groups that go to bat for students being abused by Left-wing education activists.
L.M.’s case is pending before the Supreme Court, with a petition filed by nonprofit organizations Alliance Defending Freedom and Massachusetts Family Institute. They note that the school openly promotes materials and apparel with pro-LGBTQ+ slogans.
A better outcome occurred in Vermont, although the middle-school girl, “M.P.” was disciplined twice before the People’s Academy, which receives federal funding, relented, according to The Federalist. M.P.’s mother and stepfather retained the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm “defending life, family, and freedom.”
In a letter to school officials, Thomas More Society special counsel Adam Hochschild said M.P. had been illegally targeted by the school’s principal by “pulling [M.P.] out of class, reprimanding her, punishing her with in-school suspension, and calling her shirt ‘hate speech.’”
Hochschild cited the 1969 Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, which concerned students disciplined for wearing black arm bands to protest the Vietnam War.
Of the Vermont school’s turnaround, “Perhaps it was influenced by President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20, 2025, executive order recognizing the ‘incontrovertible reality’ that there are only two sexes and directing the termination of ‘federal funding of gender ideology,’” wrote attorney John Klar in The Federalist.
Government school employees’ behavior can sometimes be corrected, sadly, only through litigation. Even then, parents must be careful. Winning on one issue doesn’t fix the underlying problem, which is that most school employees hold a worldview hostile to that of the parents.
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