Hundreds of students from Richard Montgomery High School were carrying signs reading, “Love Trumps Hate,” and chanting near the Rockville courthouse on Maryland Avenue in a protest that began at about 10 a.m. when a 15-year-old boy wearing one of the Trump campaign’s “Make America Great Again” hats was attacked by about four students.

The group surrounded the teen, punching him repeatedly, then threw him to the ground and kicked him repeatedly in the ribs. It is not yet clear what led up to the incident, but Maj. Michael English with Rockville police said the victim was not the aggressor.

“They jumped him and beat him up pretty bad,” Max Stucky, a bystander who witnessed the attack, told WTOP.

Students at the University of Massachusetts are currently holding a ‘****-in,’ occupying toilets in an admin building to demand more gender-neutral facilities on campus.

Among students involved, the protest is officially known as the “****-In At Whitmore,” in reference to the Whitmore Administration Building where the hijacked washrooms are located.

According to the official Facebook page for the event, it’s being held by Gender Liberation UMass, or GLU.

GLU hopes to accomplish three things with their ‘****-in.’

First, they want admin to change the signage on several campus bathrooms to make them gender-neutral, which they feel will encourage “trans inclusivity and safety on campus.”

Second, they demand the “advancement of medically and socially competent in-house transgender health services at the University Health Services center.”

Lastly, they’re calling for the “hiring of a professor by the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department who is an expert in the field of critical transmisogyny from an intersectional perspective.”

A Rutgers University professor was taken to a New York City hospital for a psychiatric evaluation after university police claimed he made threats to kill white people, authorities said Wednesday.

But Kevin Allred said the comments he made in class and on Twitter in the days after Donald Trump won the presidential election were just rhetorical political statements. He claims school officials were trying to intimidate him for exercising his free speech rights.

New York police said they were contacted by Rutgers police about the alleged threats. Allred, who is white, was taken to the hospital Tuesday night and released later that night. Allred said he wasn’t arrested or handcuffed, but was told he didn’t have a choice about going to the hospital.

Referrals to Britain's only gender identity service for children have more than doubled to 1,419 in 2015/16 compared with the year before, according to The Tavistock and Portman mental health clinic, which runs the service.

Polly Carmichael, a psychologist who heads the service, says in the 20 years she has worked in this field she has seen increasing numbers of children identifying as transgender or saying they do not conform to the gender they were born as.

Though rare, some of her patients are as young as three.

"Young people experiencing gender dysphoria is a real phenomenon," said Carmichael at her London office.

"It can be incredibly isolating ... if you don't feel you belong in a particular category that you've been assigned to. Many adolescents do become very distressed and self-harm."

She said the rise in children struggling with their gender identity is probably the result of greater awareness of the gender spectrum among parents and the children themselves, through the internet and other media.