Superintendent: bands were ‘threatening, harassing, intimidating’
A New Hampshire high school called the cops on several parents who showed up at a girls soccer game wearing wristbands with “XX” on them.
The two Xs, which signify women’s chromosomes, were to protest the participation of a biological male on Bow High School rival Plymouth Regional HS’s team.
According to NH Journal, parents had asked the Bow High athletic director to do something about the situation ahead of time, but he noted his hands were tied “in the wake of a federal judge’s ruling that the term ‘girl’ includes males who identify as female.”
As a result, the parents engaged in a silent protest by wearing the wristbands at the game.
Upon seeing the parents’ “XX” bands, however, school officials not only stopped the soccer match, they told the parents to remove the wristbands and “issued [a] police-enforced ‘No Trespassing order'” against two of them.
In a letter to one of the parents, Anthony Foote, Superintendent Marcy Kelley (pictured) said “prior to and during the soccer game [Foote] brought and distributed pink armbands … to protest the participation of a transgender female student on the other team.”
Wearing the armbands, Kelley said, “violate[d] school policy against ‘threatening, harassing, or intimidating…any person.’” She added “no person shall ‘impede, delay, disrupt or otherwise interfere with any school activity.’”
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Kelley alleged the district had to get additional cops to “ensure order.”
But Foote said there was no “discernible protest” other than wearing the wristbands. He provided NH Journal with videos taken at the game which, according to the report, show “no disruptive actions such as shouting, chanting, marching, sign-waving, etc.”
Foote said he has “no issue” with the transgender player, only that he’s concerned about incidences of “biological mismatch” — where (biological) girls are forced to compete against (biological) boys.
“I don’t care what [the player] wants to do with his life,” Foote said. “What I do care about is that my daughter could be physically hurt, maybe not by [this particular player] because he’s not the biggest kid on the field. But there’s a chance that next time will be different.”
Foote said the town of Bow is “very blue” and those in charge “will defend any liberal issue.” He added “it’s hard to speak out” if one has a different opinion.
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