(OPINION) A New Hampshire high school football player who was suspended for a game allegedly for saying there are “only two genders” is suing his school district, the Portsmouth Herald reported.
The Exeter High School freshman and his mother filed the Nov. 4 suit in Rockingham Superior Court against New Hampshire School Administrative Unit 16 through attorney Ian Huyett of Cornerstone Action, a nonprofit Christian advocacy organization, the paper said.
The lawsuit says the student’s September suspension violated his constitutional free speech rights as well as the state’s bill of rights since he voiced his Catholic belief that there are only male and female genders, the Herald said.
According to the lawsuit, the student was speaking with two friends on a bus after school about using Spanish third-person pronouns to refer to themselves when a female student overheard the chat and interjected that there are “more than two genders,” the paper said.
The student filing the suit responded that there are “only two genders” — and later actually got a text from the student who confronted him, the Herald said, citing the suit. “[The student] pressed [the student now suing the school] on the topic of gender, demanding, ‘Give me one valid reason why there’s only two genders,'” the lawsuit adds, according to the Herald. “The two then had a contentious exchange of texts on the issue.” READ MORE
