Greater Nashua

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the appeal of a Massachusetts student who was barred from wearing a T-shirt to school proclaiming there are only two genders. The justices left in place a federal appeals court ruling that said it would not second-guess the decision of educators in Middleborough, Massachusetts, to not allow the T-shirt to be worn in a school environment because of a negative impact on transgender and gender-nonconforming students. Educators at the John T. Nichols Middle School barred the student from wearing the T-shirt and an altered version with the words "two genders" covered up by tape with the word "censored" written on it. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. The court should have heard the case, Alito wrote, noting that "the school permitted and indeed encouraged student expression endorsing the view that there ...