Young heroes shield fellow students with bodies in Florida shooting

Those awesome young heroes will live in people's hearts.

The horrible high school shooting massacre in Florida killed 17 people and devastated families. But love and bravery never cease. The hero students who protected fellows with their own bodies during the crazy shooting have shown respectable bravery and noble spirits.

Mourners hold flowers during the funeral for Peter Wang at Kraeer Funeral Home in Parkland, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. Wang is one of 17 people killed by a former student during Wednesday's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald via AP)

Peter Wang's mother, Hui, cries as she is helped into a waiting car with her family after the memorial service for her 15-year-old son at Kraeer Funeral Home in Coral Springs, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. Peter Wang is a victim in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (Taimy Alvarez/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

When the savage gunman fired randomly, some hero students took the initiative to help other students escape, holding the door and guarding the doorway against gunfires. Sadly, three of them sacrificed their lives.

15-year-old Peter Wang was shot repeatedly while holding a door open to let other people escape.  Wang along with Alaina Petty and Martin Duque, all students from the school's Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program receive heroism medals from US Army after the selfless sacrifice. 

Alaina Petty.

 15-year-old high school soccer player Anthony Borges was trying to lock the door and remained in the doorway as the killer shot him repeatedly. Now, this teen hero was in stable condition after being shot in the back and both legs.

This image made available by the Broward County Sheriff's Office on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018, shows Sheriff Scott Israel, holding the hand of Anthony Borges, 15, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.  (Broward County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Borges's father said, “He’s my hero”, and asked people to pray for him. Broward County Sheriff visited Anthony Borges in the hospital and posted an emotional photo shaking the teen’s hand.

What's also touching but in a grieving way are funeral scenes of the deceased heroes. Thousands of people have attended to pay their respect and tribute.

Family members hold up Peter Wang's father, Kong, after the funeral services for his 15-year-old son at Kraeer Funeral Home in Coral Springs, Fla. Peter Wang is a victim in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (Taimy Alvarez/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Peter Wang is seen in this photo near a memorial in Parkland, Fla., Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)

The casket of Alaina Petty, a victim of Wednesday's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, leaves her funeral in Coral Springs, Fla., Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. Nikolas Cruz, a former student, was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder on Thursday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s highest court on Tuesday ruled to dismiss part of a law requiring people to undergo gender-affirmation surgery, including sterilization, in order to officially change their gender.

The Constitutional Court said the requirements are “unconstitutional” and “in conflict with the fundamental right of trans people to have protected their physical integrity and personal autonomy in connection with their human dignity.”

Only two of the court’s 15 judges opposed the verdict, which cannot be appealed. Lawmakers must change the affected sections of the law by the middle of next year.

The court ruled at the request of a person who was seeking a gender change. The authorities refused to register him as a man because he had not undergone surgery.

The Czech practice was criticized by LGBTQ+ rights groups.

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, was one of the last European Union countries to have such conditions in law.

FILE - People march during the LGBTQ+ parade at the Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023. On Tuesday May 7, 2024 , the Czech Republic's highest legal authority ruled to dismiss part of a law requiring people to undergo surgery, including sterilisation and change of sexual organs, to be able to officially change their gender. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)