Higher education institutions have lost the public’s trust, and it’s their own fault. 

That’s according to a report released in April by none other than Yale itself. The report detailed several reasons universities have lost public favor, including grade inflation, rising tuition, and questionable admissions practices. But the most notable reason universities have lost public favor? Their lack of respect for free speech. 

Yale’s report highlights the university’s shortcomings regarding “matters of free speech, political bias, and self-censorship,” noting that “the campus has not been immune from pressures toward conformity, intimidation, and social shaming.” 

The same is true at universities nationwide. Students feel reluctant to share their views, especially conservative views, for fear of being shunned, bullied, or even confronted with physical violence. 

But at Students for Life, we refuse to be scared into silence. That’s why this year we launched our first-ever “Wear the Truth Week,” empowering students to take a visible stand for the biological reality that human life begins at conception and that sex is unchangeable. 

Our goal? That from Monday, May 4, to Friday, May 8, students across the country would wear T-shirts featuring the same message, sparking potentially life-changing conversations with their peers. 

To do that, we shipped shirts to 229 students at campuses across the country, all reading: “Human at conception. Sex is binary and unchangeable.” 

Here are the results: