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As first reported by NHJournal, local soccer parents Fellers and Anthony Foote were slapped with “No Trespass” orders by Bow Superintendent of Schools Marcy Kelley after they wore pink wristbands with “XX” written on them to a soccer game. Bow was playing Plymouth Regional High School, a team with a biological male on the roster.

“School officials, along with a police officer, confronted the parents during the game, demanding that they remove the wristbands or leave. When the plaintiffs refused, citing their First Amendment rights, they were threatened with arrest for trespassing. The referee then stopped the game and said that Bow High School would forfeit if the plaintiffs did not remove their wristbands,” according to a statement from the Institute for Free Speech.

In her “No Trespass” order, Kelley accused Foote and Fellers of violating school rules against “threatening, harassing, or intimidating…any person” by sitting silently at the sidelines wearing the wristbands.

Kelley also claimed the wristbands violate its policy “that no person shall ‘impede, delay, disrupt or otherwise interfere with any school activity.” She also claimed, without offering evidence, that “the District had to obtain additional police presence to ensure order.”

Video of the game shows there was no chanting, sign-waving, or other evidence of “disorder” along the sidelines.