When President Donald Trump said in his inaugural speech, “There are only two genders,” it made Massachusetts teen Liam Morrison very happy, hoping it would help him in his legal battle against his Middleborough school district as the Supreme Court considers whether to take his case.

In his inaugural speech, Trump railed against “government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.” And then added, “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.”

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Those are the exact words Morrison wore on a T-shirt two years ago that got him thrown out of school.

He told Fox this week, “It makes me feel that we definitely have a bit of a boost.”

Morrison, who’s now 14 and a freshman in high school, was 12 years old when he wore a T-shirt to school that said in bold letters, “There Are Only Two Genders.” The principal accused him of disrupting his Middleborough Middle School and of demeaning LGBTQ students. He was also banned from wearing its replacement that read, “There Are Censored Genders.”

His attorney, Tyson Langhofer, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, says this is a freedom of speech issue, that Liam expressed his beliefs about gender while the school encouraged students to celebrate Pride the same way.

“My client was punished for simply having that phrase on his shirt in a public school when he was responding to the school’s message of a very different perspective on sex,” Langhofer said.

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President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025. One of Trump’s executive orders required the federal government to recognize only two sexes: male and female. (JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump also doubled down on his words by signing an executive order requiring the federal government to recognize only two sexes, male and female, and banning transgender service members.  

In a statement to Fox, the legal department of the LGBTQ+ advocacy group GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) said, “Every student has the right to attend public school without fear of bullying and harassment, and nothing in the executive order changes that. As the supreme court has recognized, public school officials have both the authority and obligation to provide a safe learning environment for all students, which is what the school did in this case.”

But Langhofer says this case is precedent-setting.

A gender-neutral bathroom at the University of California, Irvine (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/File)

“It really comes down to the question of whether the government has the right to punish a seventh-grader for simply peacefully expressing a viewpoint that was different than what the school was expressing,” Langhofer said. “And we think that that law has been clearly established.”

Liam also sees the larger picture of his fight.

“I’m hoping … that this will be seen as not only just a one-court battle but also a sign for people to speak up about their own beliefs and also a recognition of that trying to say that a biological fact isn’t true is just absurd and people are willing to fight for it,” Liam said.

In a few weeks the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to take up Liam’s case. Langhofer said it’s not clear what effect, if any, Trump’s executive order will have, and that the case ultimately rests on the weight of the First Amendment.

Boston police are looking for a 15-year-old girl who hasn’t been seen for about three weeks.

Jasmine Lopez-Rosas was last seen Jan. 6, leaving Brighton’s Mary Lyons School, Boston police said. She’s known to visit Chestnut Hill Avenue, the Fidelis Way Housing Development, Grove Hall and Mission Hill.

Jasmine is 5-foot-4, 145 lbs., has black and blue hair and was last seen in a black coat. Anyone with information on her whereabouts was asked to call 911 or detectives at 617-343-4556, or by sharing information anonymously with the department’s various tip lines.

PITTSBURGH — Is Russell Wilson leaving the Pittsburgh Steelers and heading to the Las Vegas Raiders? The answer isn’t no, but according to the Raiders new head coach, it’s too early to decide whether or not that’s going to happen.

Since the moment Carroll was hired by the Raiders, Wilson’s name has been floated as a “player to watch” for Las Vegas’s quarterback void. Aidan O’Connell is expected to be in consideration, but many see Wilson as an easy option to reunite with his former head coach and try to make a run in the AFC West.

Speaking on What The Football, Carroll was asked about a potential reunion with his Super Bowl-winning quarterback, and didn’t shut down the possibility of it happening.

“It’s so early and we’re just in the midst of trying to find the puzzle pieces, not even putting them together yet, so I can’t even say. Free agency hasn’t come yet,” Carroll said.

He did hint at the idea, though, saying the Raiders are open to anyone who can help the team win.

“I promise you, if you’re a real competitor you’re not letting options get away from you,” Carroll added.

Wilson led the Steelers to the Wild Card round of the playoffs and had moments where people talked about him being an MVP candidate. Things went downhill fast at the end of the season, losing five-straight games to finish the year, but not everything was on Wilson.

As for Pittsburgh, they are believed to favor Justin Fields as their next starter, but aren’t shutting down the possibility Wilson returns. That could change if Wilson heads west to Vegas.

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