Friend:
A Massachusetts school censored a 7th grader for wearing a shirt that expresses biological truth.
Throughout the entire nation, a debate is raging on the very nature of what it means to be human. What makes a person a man? A woman?
Our Constitution guarantees freedom of thought—and the freedom to share your beliefs.
Liam Morrison’s school decided that debate is out—and government orthodoxy is in.
Despite a recent defeat in a federal court of appeals in Massachusetts—a decision we will likely be appealing—we know that the First Amendment protects Liam’s right to voice his opinions without fear of government punishment.
Liam, then a 12-year-old student at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts, quietly observed how the school proclaimed consistently that a person’s feelings, not their biology, determines their sex and gender.
Liam holds different beliefs. Informed by a scientific understanding of biology (and backed by millennia of human history), he believes that there are only two sexes (male and female) and that a person’s gender is inseparable from their sex.
So, one day Liam wore a shirt to school that says, “There are only two genders.”
The principal of the school, along with a school counselor, pulled Liam out of class and ordered him to remove his shirt or go home. Liam politely declined and was sent home.
Public school officials cannot censor a 7th grader’s speech by forcing him to remove a shirt that respectfully states scientific fact. This is a gross violation of the First Amendment.
Please stand with this brave young student as he challenges his school’s violation of free speech. Sign our pledge to show that Liam isn’t the only one who is standing up for these truths.
