Today, on the Morning Update, some local parents score a First Amendment win at the First Circuit Court of Appeals. I talk about how our prediction came true, and why it even had to go that far.
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Ep 250 Links:
- https://www.ifs.org/news/institute-for-free-speech-wins-first-amendment-victory-for-parents-punished-for-wearing-xx-wristbands/
- https://granitegrok.com/new-england/nh/2024/09/banned-parents-should-have-worn-pussyhats-to-silently-support-girls-sports
- https://granitegrok.com/right-rally/2024/09/breaking-parents-support-free-speech-and-girls-sports-in-bow-nh
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Edited Transcript:
Welcome to your Friday, August 28th, 2026 morning update.
From the Institute of Free Speech. In a major victory for free speech, a federal appeals court made that clear today in ruling for four New Hampshire residents who were threatened with arrest and banned from school grounds for wearing pink XX wristbands to a girls’ soccer game. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled in favor of the Institute for Free Speech clients Kyle Fellers, Anthony, “Andy” Foote, Nicole Foote, and Eldon Rash, declaring that the plaintiffs have established a likelihood of success as to their viewpoint discrimination claim arising from the sanction imposed on them for their passive speech in wearing these wristbands. The case now returns to the district court for further proceedings, including consideration of appropriate interim relief.
In September of 2024, a group of parents was attending a girls’ soccer game, Bow Dunbarton School District versus Plymouth, I believe. The Plymouth team had a boy on it who was pretending to be a girl. They were just minding their own business, wearing pink wristbands with X X written on them in black Sharpie marker.
Some snowflake got triggered, and the next thing you know, school district employees and a police officer made their appearance and asked them to disband their wristbands.
Since they were just standing there, one parent complained about the intrusion, and they were asked to leave.
At some point during this confrontation, the referee actually stopped the game, which is really amusing because the parents were accused at some point that “no person shall impede, delay, disrupt, or otherwise interfere with any school activity.”
They were just standing there until the school district employees and the police officer showed up. Nobody was disrupting anything. So the superintendent, equally woke and anxious to make an example, did indeed sign a no-trespass order on two of the parents, which prohibited them from attending the next couple of games.
Their speech denied, their right to attend their daughter’s games denied. The story beginning to go wide, it was game on.
The district superintendent Marcy Kelley signed the No Trespass Order prohibiting the parents from attending the events, and at the next game, a rather larger crowd of parents arrived. Local activists, people who were concerned, defenders of free speech, all wearing pink wristbands with two X’s on them. What can I say? They asked for it.
The school responded by saying we were going to make a special silent protest area off in the distance away from the people and the game, you know, so nobody else gets triggered.
If you search Bow, B-O-W and Free Speech and or Pink Wristbands on GraniteGrok.com, you will be rewarded with a long list of stories from a wide array of contributors about this particular event.
We are happy to have played some small part in this story going nationwide and perhaps even global. But when it first broke, I wrote,
I have news for Bow. If it doesn’t think it’s getting sued, it’s almost guaranteed. First Amendment abuse is so blatant that people will line up to help sue them. The Institute for Free Speech did. 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?
Well yes, of course they were. That was obviously a rhetorical question. The school got sued; the elites didn’t care. And they lost.
And it wasted some as yet to be determined sum of money to defend themselves from their nonsense. And I expect that the parents will be asking for their legal costs to be covered because none of this should have ever happened.
Quote: This ruling reaffirms parents have a right to silently express their views on controversial issues, including on girls’ sex-based rights. Even if school administrators strongly disagree with them, said Institute Senior Attorney Dell Kolde, who argued Fellers before the First Circuit. If school officials allow expression supporting one side of a political debate, they cannot ban silent peaceful expression on the other side. Our clients simply stood up for their First Amendment rights.
Sadly, the super smartest people in the world running our public schools into the ground still don’t get that. What’s more important is they are working diligently to make sure that your kids, their students, don’t get it either.
That’s it for today. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
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