This week, a middle schooler in Colorado Springs decided to don his Don’t Tread on Me patch smack dab on his backpack. This middle schooler, Jaiden Rodriguez, was spotted by a teacher who anonymously reported him and his backpack. Then, of course, the administration got involved and tried to explain to him and his mom that his Don’t Tread on Me patch actually represents slavery.

The mom went in to meet with the administrator, who began with: “The reason that they do not want the flag — we do not want the flag — is due to its origins with slavery and the slave trade.” When Jaiden’s mom asked what is going to happen if he doesn’t take the badge off, the administrator responded: “I just want him to go back to class. The bag can’t go back. It’s got the badge on it. We can’t have that in and around other kids.” What this administrator did not know was that Jaiden’s mother had done her research. She explained that the Gadsden flag had nothing to do with slavery and remarked that perhaps they were thinking of the confederate flag. The administrator said, “I am here to enforce the policy that was provided by the district.” Jaiden’s mom went on to say she had checked the ACLU’s website to find that they were just fine with wearing, waving, or flying the flag. Apparently, this school district knew more than the ACLU though, because they continued to refer to the “district policy” — and they were just enforcing the policy.

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Rather than appease the admin or give in to taking his patch off just to get back to class, Jaiden’s mom didn’t back down. She is an incredibly supportive mother. When moms ask me how they can help or what they should do, I always tell them that what children need today is strong parents who know the rules and regulations and are willing to be an example of bravery like Jaiden’s mom. She is exactly what all parents should be. She tells the administrator she and her husband teach Jaiden to always stand for his beliefs — and she is modeling to him in that moment just what that looks like. She says, “You’re going over the Revolution for 7th grade. I mean, the Founding Fathers stood up for what they believe in against unjust laws. This is unjust.”

It may be unjust, but this whole scenario just shows the absolute stupidity of this administrator to just retort that they are following policy. What policy? What facts? You cannot just have a policy that says, if we say it’s slavery that it is. It sounds like they are just making it up as they go along. Apparently their “policy” says no to Don’t Tread on Me patches, but it’s fine with the car in the parking lot with stickers supporting the Green New Deal — and trans kids.

None of this seems fair at all. Plus, isn’t this a school? Shouldn’t they be teaching history? But because Jaiden was supported by his parents, and because his parents were more educated than his educator, the story went viral. Ben Shapiro interviewed him, and during their discussion, Jaiden explained that he missed class (which he was very concerned about), and he mentioned that the Gadsden flag was a warning to the British not to tread on our rights — and had nothing to do with slavery.

Jaiden just looks like a kid who should not be messed with. He looks like he’s going to be a future business leader in this country. He studies, earns straight As, makes honor roll, and plans to continue doing so. So while this school tried to tread on Jaiden’s rights, they found out they weren’t going to be able to. This kid is a living legend, and he is obviously going to be very successful. He’s calm, he’s collected, and he’s poised because he understands what his rights are. He understands what the facts are and he knows how to stand for what he believes in.

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The Texas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a state law prohibiting doctors from performing sex-change treatments and surgeries on minors can go into effect on Friday after the attorney general’s office appealed a judge’s temporary injunction.

Last week, Texas District Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel temporarily blocked a Republican-led bill banning medical providers from administering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones or performing surgical procedures on minors. The law also prohibits using state dollars to fund such procedures for children.

Hexsel said the law “infringes upon the Texas Constitution’s guarantees of equality under the law by enacting a discriminatory and categorical prohibition on evidence-based medical treatments for transgender youth.”

But the office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton immediately filed an appeal to the state’s Supreme Court that placed the judge’s order on hold, arguing that such medical interventions are “unproven” and “emphatically pushed by some activists in the medical and psychiatric professions despite the lack of evidence demonstrating medical benefit, and even while growing evidence indicates harmful effects on children’s mental and physical welfare.”

Paxton’s office said in a news release that it will “continue to enforce the laws duly enacted by the Texas Legislature and uphold the values of the people of Texas by doing everything in its power to protect children from damaging ‘gender transition’ interventions.

The state’s Supreme Court order did not expand further about its decision to allow the law to take effect or disclose whether it believes the ban is unconstitutional. It’s set to go into effect September 1.

Governor Greg Abbot (R-TX) signed the bill into law in June, making Texas the largest state to protect children from life-altering transgender procedures. With Abbott’s signature, the Lone Star State joined more than 20 other states that have banned transgender surgeries for minors, with many prohibiting both surgical and chemical procedures.

The legislation took a while to get through both chambers of the Texas legislature as Democrats used parliamentary tactics to stall it. Democrat State Rep. Shawn Thierry voted for the bill, citing scientific evidence showing the long-term impacts of transgender procedures.

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Thierry said in a statement that she voted to ban minors from receiving “GnRH-analogs, (i.e. “puberty blockers”), cross-sex hormones, and to undergo irreversible surgeries when experiencing gender dysphoria” after speaking with constituents and “reviewing the scientific data in this country and around the globe.”

Attorneys from left-wing legal groups, like Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Texas, filed a lawsuit last month in state court seeking to block the law on behalf of five Texas families, three medical professionals, and two organizations.

The lawsuit argued that the state law violates parents’ rights to provide such medical treatment for their children, discriminates against children based on sex and “transgender status,” and violates healthcare providers’ rights to practice medicine.

“Transgender people have always been here and will always be here,” Ash Hall of the ACLU of Texas said. “Our trans youth deserve a world where they can shine alongside their peers, and we will keep advocating for that world in and out of the courts.”

The law comes after a report alleged that a children’s hospital in Houston performed transgender procedures on children as young as 11.

According to whistleblower documents obtained by City Journal’s Christopher Rufo, Texas Children’s Hospital, the largest children’s hospital in the U.S., inserted an implantable puberty blocker in multiple children, including at least one 11-year-old.

Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.