Supreme Court Declines to Take Middle School “Only Two Genders” T-shirt Case

This is a disappointing loss for the free speech rights of students

May 28, 2025

First, if you haven’t already, please have a look at an op ed I published in The Hill yesterday titled, “With their trans stance, Democrats are pushing women right out of their party.”

It’s about a recent effort by the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) to meet with members of Congress, including Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), whose Chief Counsel laughed at them, accused them of lying, advised them to leave the party, and then kicked them out of his office. According to the op ed:

Last week, a group of feminist activists met with various members of Congress to discuss women’s sex-based rights. The group was led by members of the Women’s Liberation Front, an unapologetically radical feminist organization that supports women and girls as a sex class and opposes the inclusion of men in female-only sports and spaces. One of the women in attendance was Irene Lawrence, a board member of Women’s Declaration International USA.

The group’s meeting with Sen John Fetterman’s (D-Pa.) staff in particular could not have gone worse. According to Julia Hing, Fetterman chief of staff Jason Smith reportedly mocked a rape survivor and accused the women of lying about the importance of female-only spaces. When they told him that women are leaving the Democratic Party over such treatment, he reportedly responded, “Good. Leave. Go.” Then he threw them out of his office.

Liberal activists like these have long formed a core constituency for Democrats. But if Democrats keep asking liberal women to leave their party, then guess what — they will leave. And they are leaving.

The Women’s Liberation Front and Women’s Declaration International USA support the rights of women and girls to have female-only spaces and sports. Both groups oppose the inclusion of men and boys on the basis that men and boys claim to have “female gender identities.” I know this, having previously served on the boards of both organizations.

I didn’t mention it in the article (because I wanted to focus on the radical feminist groups on whose leadership teams I have served), but representatives from Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender (DIAG) were also in attendance.

Well done to all involved, and thanks so much to The Hill for publishing it!

This post is about yesterday’s decision by the US Supreme Court not to take up a case in which a middle school student was disciplined for wearing a t-shirt that read “There are only two genders.” Liam, the student, argued that such discipline violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, and I agree with him. He lost his case, and yesterday, the Supreme Court declined to get involved. Read on to learn more.

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