School district defends decision to ban parents who wore ‘XX’ wristbands at daughters’ game with trans athlete

Roughly 2 months aft barring parents who wore "XX" wristbands during a precocious schoolhouse shot crippled against a transgender athlete, a schoolhouse territory is assured successful its determination to bash so.

Anthony Foote of Bow, New Hampshire, told the New Hampshire Journal helium had received a announcement of trespass from Bow and Dunbarton School Districts Superintendent Marcy Kelley aft helium had worn armbands successful enactment of biologic girls-only sports to his daughter’s precocious schoolhouse shot crippled backmost successful September.

Foote, his woman Nicole, Kyle Fellers, and Eldon Rash past filed a national suit against the Bow School District, Superintendent of Schools Marcy Kelley, Principal Matt Fisk, Athletic Director Mike Desilets, Bow Police Lieutenant Phil Lamy and shot referee Steve Rossetti respective days later.

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A radical of New Hampshire parents sued a schoolhouse territory implicit their removal from a girls' shot crippled for protesting against information by a transgender player. (Getty Images)

The "silent protest" astatine Bow High School, the suit says, intended to "show solidarity" with the Bow squad and reason a argumentation that allowed a transgender miss to play connected Plymouth's team.

Fellers and Foote testified Thursday that they hadn’t intended to harass oregon different people a transgender subordinate connected the opposing team, but the schoolhouse territory said differently.

Kelley and Desilets believed that the protestation wouldn't halt astatine conscionable wristbands, saying they had received powerfully worded emails from Foote successful which helium called himself a "real leader" who was prepared to instrumentality action. They besides said Foote urged others to be the crippled connected societal media.

In the days starring up to the game, different genitor told schoolhouse officials that she had overheard others speech astir showing up to the crippled wearing dresses and heckling the transgender player.

"When we fishy there’s immoderate benignant of menace . . . we don’t hold for it to happen," Kelley said connected Friday.

The "silent protest" astatine Bow High School, the suit says, intended to "show solidarity" with the Bow squad and reason a argumentation that allowed a transgender miss to play connected Plymouth's team.

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Kelley besides pushed backmost connected the thought that the plaintiffs were simply expressing enactment for their daughters and the girls' teammates successful general, noting that they had chosen the 1 crippled involving a transgender subordinate to statesman wearing the wristbands.

"This was organized and targeted," she said. "If we were to let harassment, we’re liable."

A national justice successful the case, Steven McAuliffe, pushed backmost connected the parents for repeatedly referring to the jock arsenic a lad connected Thursday.

"You look to spell retired of your mode to suggest there’s nary specified happening arsenic a trans girl," McAuliffe said during the hearing. 

The transgender subordinate successful question, Parker Tirrell, and different pupil jock are challenging the authorities instrumentality that bans transgender athletes successful grades 5 to 12 from playing connected teams that align with their sex identity. A national justice ruled successful their lawsuit that they tin play sports during the ongoing suit that seeks to overturn the law.

The Bow School District defended its determination to barroom those who wore "XX" wristbands astatine the game. (Friedemann Vogel/Getty Images)

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Gov. Chris Sununu, who signed the Fairness successful Women’s Sports Act into instrumentality successful July, has said that it "ensures fairness and information successful women’s sports by maintaining integrity and competitory equilibrium successful diversion competitions." 

Fox News' Paulina Dedaj, Landon Mion, Jackson Thompson, and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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