A 12-year-old boy was asked by public school administrators to remove a T-shirt that they said violated the school district's hate speech policies. When he refused, he left school for the day with his parents.
On Thursday, March 21, Liam Morrison, a seventh-grade student at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, says he wore a T-shirt to school with the words "There are only two genders." At gym class that day, Liam was pulled out to have a discussion with the acting principal of the school and a school counselor. During the meeting, a school administrator told Liam that his shirt had upset students and staff and, given its inappropriateness, that he must put on another shirt before returning to class.
Editor's Note: Below is a nearly complete transcript of comments made by Liam Morrison, 12, of Middleborough, to the Middleborough School Committee on Thursday, April 13, 2023. His comments start at 9:37 of the video at the bottom.
Hello. Good evening. My name is Liam Morrison. … I'm in the 7th-10th grade at Nichols Middle School. I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you today.
