The parents punished by SAU 67 administrators for wearing pink “XX” wristbands to a Bow High School girls’ soccer game have an appeal hearing scheduled before the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.

Anthony Foote, Kyle Fellers, Nicole Foote, and Eldon Rash are appealing U.S. District Court Judge Stephen McAuliffe’s ruling in favor of the district. McAuliffe ruled that SAU 67 has the legal authority to restrict their protest to protect a biological male playing on a girls’ soccer team.

“Because gender identities are characteristics of personal identity that are ‘unalterable or otherwise deeply rooted,’ the demeaning of which ‘strikes a person at the core of his being,’ and because Bow school authorities reasonably interpreted the symbols used by plaintiffs, in context, as conveying

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