Two dads wore pink wristbands with XX on them to a girls’ soccer game to protest a boy playing on the opposing team. There was a hubbub, which garnered national attention and plenty of commentary from us, including this.
To summarize, as I understand it, the cast includes public school superintendents, coaches, at least one referee, a lawsuit, a sex predator, a boy on a girls’ sports team, lots of pink wristbands, and too many uninformed parents. This last piece is a common theme, and a story repeated more times than we will ever know.
The Bow school district doubled down, spawning a lawsuit accusing it of suppressing the dad’s First Amendment rights. After all, they were just standing there, watching the game wearing pink wristbands, and the district asked them to leave, issuing no trespass orders against the offensive wristband-wearing observers. It was an open and shut case until an NH judge tossed it out, claiming the district had the right to control the area around the field.
Judges are often wrong about many things, especially in New Hampshire. Almost as wrong as school superintendents. The district could have apologized publicly, acknowledged wrongdoing, and promised not to suppress peaceful protest. We warned them of the consequences. Instead, they announced a policy change guaranteed to get them sued, and what they thought was a welcome ruling from the judge, but now everyone is looking at this.
The Dads were on Fox News, and influencers are creating custom gear in their honor. The circumstances surrounding the case are once again national news, but this time, the United States Department of Justice has turned its eye upon Bow and the judge.
Bondi has made many unfulfilled promises in her few months in the position, so the censors in Bow might not be that concerned just yet, but the optics are interesting, and the truth is still not on the school’s side. The facts of the case are clear evidence of viewpoint discrimination. The dads were targeted, removed, and publicly cited for…standing in place with pink wristbands. [Embattled School District’s ‘Rules’ Set it Up to Get Sued Some More]
Creating a scene disrupted the game, and the Referee who stopped it to target the dads is listed as a defendant in the lawsuit. Who tipped him off remains unclear, but that water is long under the bridge and of little consequence. Some easily-triggered parent was likely triggered, and here we are. Progs up and down the LGBTQ+ flagpole couldn’t wait to make examples of them, and now everyone has to wonder what the hell is wrong with these people.
Many of us know. Their self-worth is defined by burnishing their reputation on false acts of moral authority. Typically, these are things that cost someone else something, cost them nothing, but result in adulation from their peer group.
Let’s stomp on their First Amendment rights and ban them from a game or two to send a message to everyone else. That didn’t work. The next game had a crowd of pink wristband-wearing supporters, and inspired an activist group that exposed shoddy supervision of a convicted pedophile whose son is the trans-player. He (pedobear) was at all his games, with a cellphone (he should not have had), taking pictures, and whose kink is high-school-aged girls.
He went to jail early on, facing new charges.
One school was exposed for ignoring state law (teen boys may not play on girls teams), as was systemic public school indifference to the presence or knowledge of a known sex predator at the girls’ games.
And that new group defending girls’ sports is as active as ever, and energized by all the attention the case received. One that will surely be appealed, especially since the US AG has taken notice and the next judge(s) may not be as rheumy-eyed about government institutions suppressing the peaceful expression of constitutionally protected natural rights.
As I noted last September,
I suppose the question has to be, do the snowflakes even care? No qualms about wasting taxpayer money or putting their bond at risk, defending their impulsive, unconstitutional partisan nonsense. Are they so blinded by their self-importance and false outrage they can’t see it?
They will shortly, and it’s going to hurt a little more than ignoring people quietly watching a game wearing pink wristbands with two Xs on them.
When the case eventually ends, possibly at the US Supreme Court because there’s no way they lose there, though I don’t think it will get that far, Bow will have to pay all of its costs, and very likely all of the Plaintiffs’ court and legal expenses as well.
That’s some pricey virtue signaling even for a town as woke as Bow, New Hampshire, which ought to have had the sense to say, you know what? It’s peaceful, respectful, and we’d expect the same for us, but the party of tolerance can’t tolerate dissent in any form. They hate it. So, the story continues, and the longer it does the worse it is for the district (IMO).
