Will teenaged anti-trans bigot be the first kid to get the Medal of Freedom? By Hal M. Brown

 

There is a good case to be made that Donald Trump wouldn't have won the election had he not made the lie about schools changing the gender of children a major issue.

I lived in the town of Middleboro (sometimes spelled Middleborough) for 20 years having moved there to grow cranberries on my late wife's family farm. Having moved to Oregon I keep up with a close friend there and have a Google News search for news about the town. This is how I came across this article.

I saw the article shown above (link here) this morning. It was just above a story about someone who had cranberry bogs down the street from where we lived.

I don't think there many still living famous people who are from Middleboro. I know of professional wrestler Rick Fuller, pictured on top of the page, who is a well liked townie. My close friend in Middleboro knows him very well. As far as I can tell he still operates Anything Goes Removal there. There are a few more listed here.

Tom Thumb and his wife lived there when they retired. The house they lived in has been made into a little museum.  

I am quite sure nobody from the town has made it onto the Law and Crime website (read article).

The case also made Education Week (read here)

This is a Friend of the Court brief filed in support of the school's decision.

In this election Massachusetts went clearly for Harris. Middleborough went for Trump 7,807 (57.2%) to Harris' 5,642 (41.3%).  In 2020 the town voted 53.1% for Trump and 45.7% for Biden so the Republicans did even better in this election. If this is any indication there must be many people who applaud the fight this kid and his family are engaged in for his right to wear a t-shirt in school that has been adjucated to be a type of bullying.

Here's an excerpt from the article published in Boston.com:

Eighteen state attorneys general from mostly Republican-led states are voicing their support for the Massachusetts middle schooler who claims his First Amendment rights were violated when he was banned from wearing a “There are only two genders” shirt to school last year. 

Liam Morrison, a then-seventh grader at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, was sent home from school in March 2023 after he refused to change his t-shirt. A District Court judge found that his rights were not violated, and a United States Court of Appeals agreed in June.

The case was filed on behalf of Morrison and his family last year by two conservative Christian groups, Alliance Defending Freedom and the Massachusetts Family Institute. The groups have said they will appeal to the Supreme Court. 

Middleboro is obviously a politically divided town. When I lived there I was on a diversity committee along with school administrators, church, and community leaders. But there has always been a very conservative, I would say bigoted, side of the town. When the Wampanoag Mashpee tribe wanted to open a Native American casino there the town made the national news. Many residents were so adamently opposed to this not only because of the gambling but because of the number of non-White people who would move to the town to work in the casino that they said if it opened they would move. They said there would be a migration from cities like Fall River and New Bedford to the south which would be like the Ho Chi Minh Trail since many Asians lived in thos cities. People were complaining that 30 different languages would be spoken in the schools.

Up until now Simone Biles has been the youngest person to receive the Medal of Freedom (see Axios).

She is not only the greatest gymnast of all time but one of the greatest athletes ever. 

It wouldn't surprise me if the teenaged brainwashed bigot who is no doubt the hero of the anti-trans crowd for his daring act of wearing a t-shirt that will make lots of other students very uncomfortable can claim that he's an anti-woke hero. It wouldn't surprise me if Trump, who always knows how to own "woke" liberals, has already had someone suggest that this kid should be award the Medal of Freedom. I wouldn't be surprised if see videos and photos of this kids standing next to the man who is, I have no doubt, his hero when this medal is clasped around his neck.

I see this kid as a victim. He has been brainwashed into bigotry. I only hope, Medal of Freedom or not, as he grows up and gains critical thinking skills and perhaps becomes aquainted with trans and other members of the LGBTQ+ community he sees the errors of his ways.

The more famous he becomes now the more impact an eventual mea culpa will have.

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