A federal judge in New Hampshire is lined up with local school districts to help support biological girls-only sports, preventing parents from wearing armbands on school grounds.
In September, my parents wore pink “XX” wristbands during a high school soccer game. There, Parker Tirell, a transgender athlete, now 16, played for the opposite team. The wristbands referenced sex chromosomes associated with biological females.
The protests have issued trespass notices for parents Anthony and Nicole Foot across the district chiefs of Bow and Dumbarton, according to the New Hampshire Journal.
Parker Tirell, a transgender athlete who plays for the high school girls’ soccer team, is practicing in the driveway of a family home in Plymouth, New Hampshire on Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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The parents then sued the school district and alleged that their First Amendment rights had been violated. Although the trespass order has expired, the judge asked him to wear a wristband at school events while the case was progressing.
On Monday, US District Judge Stephen McAuliffe, appointee of President George HW Bush, ruled that the district had acted reasonably in its decision to prevent the protests.
McAuliffe said parents’ “narrow, plausible” intentions were less important than in the broader context, and adults attending high school athletic events would not enjoy the right to comply with the First Amendment to convey messages that harass or harm students.
Transgender athlete hoodie tyrell, soccer ball.
“The plaintiffs may not have intended to convey any sleazy or harassment messages directed at Parker Tirell and other transgender students, but the symbols and posters they have shown can fully convey such a message,” he wrote. “And that broader message is something that school authorities have reasonably understood and tried to prevent appropriately.”
“A broader, more despicable/harassment message than the plaintiff’s ‘XX’ symbols for school districts to convey is completely reasonable
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Fellers and Foote testified that they had no intention of harassing or targeting transgender players on the opposing team, but the district said it differently. Neither of the parents’ group had protested in previous games either.
From the end of the game, another parent told school staff he overheard she had come into the game wearing a dress and told her about taking out transgender players.
“When we think there’s a certain kind of threat… we don’t wait for it to happen,” Kelly said before.
In February, parents asked the court to rule that they would be allowed to wear pink wristbands in spring games to protest transgender athletes competing in women’s sports. Their request for interim injections has been denied, and the court has not yet ruled over the demand to wear pink wristbands at all school sporting events. Concord Monitor.
President Donald Trump will not sign the Women’s Sports Executive Order in the Women’s Sports Executive Order in the Eastern Room of the White House in Washington, DC on February 5, 2025. The order seeks to prohibit women from competing with transgender girls on sports teams that match their gender identity. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
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Del Colde, a senior lawyer at the Free Speech Institute and one of the lawyers representing his parents, said he strongly disagreed with the court’s opinion denies the request for a temporary injunction.
“This was an adult speech in a limited public forum, which enjoys First Amendment protections over student speeches in the classroom,” Korde said in a statement to the outlet. “Officers in the Bow School District were clearly discriminatory based on perspective, as they perceived the XX wristband as “exclusive.” ”
After the judgment was issued, the plaintiffs filed a notice that they were not intending to enter more evidence before the judge made a final decision.
The decision comes weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s and women’s sports.
Fox News’ Ryan Morik, Paulina Dederje, Landon Mion, Jackson Thompson and the Associated Press contributed to the report.
