The resolution, approved Thursday by U.S.District Judge Steven McAuliffe, ends more than two years of litigation and requires the district’s risk pool to pay $275,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs.TRANS ATHLETES DROP LAWSUIT TO GAIN ACCESS TO GIRLS' SPORTS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AFTER SCOTUS RULINGInstitute for Free Speech senior attorney Del Kolde pictured wearing an XX wristband similar to what the parents wore.
(Nick Perry, AP, right.)The judgment protects the four plaintiffs’ right to silently wear the wristbands along the sidelines, in spectator areas and in parking lots at any Bow School District sporting event.It expressly declares that the district violated their constitutional rights when it barred the wristbands at a Sept.
17, 2024, girls varsity soccer game."It took more than two years, but the court has recognized that what happened to us was wrong," plaintiff Kyle Fellers said in a statement reported by The Associated Press.Fellers said the ban kept him from attending half of his daughter’s soccer games during her senior year.The case grew out of a game between Bow High School and Plymouth Regional High School, whose girls team included transgender player Parker Tirrell.The wristbands’ "XX" symbols referenced female chromosomes and expressed opposition to allowing biological males to compete in girls' sports.DOJ REVIEWING PORTLAND THORNS INCIDENT SHOWING WOMEN’S SPORTS SUPPORTERS STRUCK, FORCIBLY REMOVEDSchool officials, accompanied by a police officer, confronted spectators over the wristbands.
The confrontation escalated, the referee halted play and Fellers and Anthony "Andy" Foote subsequently received no-trespass orders.Fox News Digital previously reported on Foote’s ban after he wore the wristband to his daughter’s game.Fellers, Foote, Nicole Foote and grandfather Eldon Rash brought the lawsuit with representation from the Institute for Free Speech and local attorney Richard J.Lehmann.Under the settlement, Primex, the district’s risk...