The US Supreme Court refused to hear a free-speech case
Liam Morrison wore a T-shirt to school that read “There are only two genders”. He was sent home after he refused to remove that shirt. Morrison later wore the shirt to school except with the word “two” censured out. The school sent him home again when he refused to remove the shirt. Liam’s school argued that his shirt made his classmates unsafe. A federal court agreed with the school, arguing that the shirt’s statement demeaned transgender students. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
From Fox News:
The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving a Massachusetts student who was banned from school for wearing a shirt criticizing the transgender movement on Tuesday.
The student, Liam Morrison, brought the case through his father and stepmother, Christopher and Susan Morrison. The plaintiffs argue Nichols Middle School violated his free speech rights when it banned him from wearing two T-shirts to school with the words “There are only two genders” and “There are [censored] genders” on the front.
Liam was sent home both times after he refused to change shirts. The school argued the shirts made his classmates feel unsafe, and a federal court agreed, saying the message was demeaning for transgender students.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito both issued separate dissents, arguing the court should have taken up the case.
The decision comes nearly a year after the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Liam and his parents in June 2024, finding that the school was justified in asking him to remove the shirt and sending him home when he refused.
Additional Reading,
Hagstrom, A., Mears, B., & Bream, S. (2025, May 27). Supreme Court declines to review free speech case involving student who wore ‘only two genders’ shirt. Fox News. Link.
” Massachusetts ”
I’ll just leave this right here….
And have this for your meme library.
Jee-zus H. Christ…
Of course its in Massive-Two-Shits.
If you go in for Gender Reassignment surgery, you only have one choice, correct? Its either M to F or F to M. There is no other choices, so the kids shirt is factually correct.
God thought so.
The liberals and RINOs kicked it back, so Tinker vs. Des Moines wouldn’t force them to rule against it.
Cowards
Alito and Thomas are the ONLY logical, constitutionalist, reality-based justices on SCOTUS. Period. ALL the rest are fence-walking losers.
Due to the both of those Justices being outnumbered, I refuse to acknowledge SCOTUS as a constitutionalist court. Tyrants in robes, indeed.
I wonder if these so called republican judges are scared shitless that if they make a decision that the demoRats don’t like, they will have all these ass-holes in front of their homes so the best way is to change to vote demoRatic
Lawyers sucking on the public teat.
Just check out their lifetime benefits… None of our patriotic veterans ever received such benefits, huh? A bit of disparity.
WTF is with Barrett and Gorsuch? Roberts has always been a squish, and the lefties don’t have a brain among them, but Barrett and Gorsuch were supposed to be better…
They have NEVER been better. As a Court, with few exceptions, the majority of their decisions have leaned toward gutless.
Kid shoulda never been sent home to start with. And SCOTUS shoulda told the lower fed court they were wrong.
Did anyone in the school’s biology department speak up for this kid? I’d assume not, for fear of losing their jobs. Cowards.
Warning: This comment may offend certain sensitive individuals. OK? Right. You know who you are. No need to apologize.
I remember it clearly: Setting: Biology lab with teacher explaining to class, most of whom are zoned out. “Now boys and girls, “In the beginning God said” … oh lawdy! I’m not allowed to mention such radical things like that! It might offend and/or frighten someone’s delicate little mind. Oh well, none of them were listening anyway. Hey you, in the back of the room, get off that little hussy! What? Studying for your exams? Huuuuh! “
Golly, Miss Molly! Physical education sure has changed since I went to school!
Somebody’d better wake up Leroy, he’s never seen a wreck like this!
Uniforms. Black pants, white shirts. Problem solved.
I bet if his T-shirt said “Dubul’ ibhunu” he would have got a pass.
Or a ‘ MAPs’ flag
Eliminating “public” indoctrination/education may cause the contention to become moot?
When a token associate justice can’t even distinguish what gender means, fluff arguments at SJC level should be dismissed just as the motor mouth dwarf negress brings no value to the court.
On the uptick, the boy’s contention/argument and the “schools” response celebrates and justifies the reason why the federal government has no place in American life or culture.
Despite Camille Paglia’s past, she SLAMS those who are pushing transgenderism at everyone… https://www.dailysignal.com/2017/06/16/what-feminist-camille-paglia-says-about-transgenderism/
Another data point for home schooling.
I’m literally speechless. I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out how to express my dismay at this blatant disregard for the clearly established principles of the First Amendment and I just can’t come up with anything that fully expresses my disappointment and anger.
All I can come up with is:
WTF?
It’s time. Nuclear option. Pack the court while we’ve still got a majority in the Senate to confirm appointments. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to, say, 21 and name so many constitutional conservatives to the court that the left wing nutjobs have no voice at all…and defang the supposed conservatives that apparently care more about good press than good jurisprudence.
Seems to me that SCOTUS did the wrong thing here, but that’s not unusual. SCOTUS is not the omniscient entity that far too many of our fellow Americans believe it to be…it’s just 9 people with a decent understanding of the law trying to navigate previous decisions against modern morality…instead of simply understanding words like “shall make no law”….
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District in 1968 was determined in Tinker’s favor when the SCOTUS stated that school districts may not engage in viewpoint discrimination…SCOTUS should have heard the current case on the grounds that settling how Tinker should be interpreted today would resolve all of these issues.
A school system that disallows messaging on clothing would not be subject to this because it suppresses all messaging…as opposed to this case where there is no distinct rule against messaging only against messaging that may somehow demean someone, whatever that means. It’s so ambiguous that a legal look at this by SCOTUS would have been appropriate.
(A reminder that before someone comes in to let me know that “You can’t yell fire in a theater” that everyone should look that case up for two reasons….one, it was a comment used to justify suppression of speech against a war, and two that comment was reversed by the judge who used it a year later and 50 years later it was significantly altered by a new SCOTUS…a reminder that SCOTUS rulings are not absolute for eternity and are often reversed when times and people change…Schenk is the 1919 fire in a theater case, and Brandenburg is the alteration in 1969…but both cases represent SCOTUS suggesting that “shall make no law” actually means “it’s okay to make some laws”…which is an interesting thing in and of itself…)