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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.

“I have my own opinions and I have a right to express them, even at school. This right is called free speech.” Liam says.

This case isn’t just about a shirt.

“The school is talking about this issue all the time,” ADF Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer, who is defending Liam, says, “and all Liam wanted to do was express his opinion, which is actually shared by a lot of his classmates.”

After the school punished Liam for wearing the shirt, he wore another shirt to protest the school’s censorship that said: “There are censored genders.”

Again, the school told him to take off the shirt. That’s when Liam and his family decided to ask Alliance Defending Freedom and the Massachusetts Family Institute to take legal action.

“I don’t complain when I see pride flags and diversity posters hung throughout the school,” Liam told a meeting of the Middleborough School Committee in April, after he was punished the first time. “Others have a right to their beliefs just like I do.”

The First Amendment protects people of all beliefs, especially people who disagree with the government. If you only have freedom to agree with those in power, you don’t have freedom at all.

Across the nation, government officials are trying to silence views that differ from radical gender ideology. And it’s falling to brave young students like Liam to stand in opposition and not affirm lies when school officials, who should be modeling adulthood, have failed students.

Will you join Liam today?

—Alliance Defending Freedom

P.S. Liam isn’t the first student to be censored—and he won’t be the last. Stand with him today and send a message that government censorship cannot be allowed.

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