Parents protesting transgender soccer player given no trespassing order

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An extraordinarily courageous transgender high school soccer player showed up for her team Tuesday. She did this knowing that her mere presence would likely by protested by parents from the opposing team.

A law that went into affect in July banning transgender student participation in sports had been challenged in court and was put on hold while it worked it's way through the system. So until there is a final ruling, or when there is a final ruling, this transgender soccer player is free to play.

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Those who received the no trespassing orders ignored a email warning spectators to not disrupt the game. They were banned from district school property because they achieved their goal of "intimidating, threatening, harassing, and discouraging" the transgender student from playing.

They stopped the game, demanded the pink armbands be removed, and issued police-enforced “No Trespassing” orders against at least two parents, the The right-leaning NH Journal reports.

“My daughter’s playing in the homecoming game this weekend, and I’m banned until the 23rd,” said Anthony Foote of Bow, N.H. “I can’t watch her play in homecoming — which is ridiculous.”

Sarah McBride Wins her Primary Posed to be the first Transgender US Representative

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Sarah McBride has won her primary and is posed to become the first transgender woman to be elected to the US Congress.

She was asked in an interview about her primary win, "How do you balance the work you want to do – which is broad, and covers a lot of different policies — with the demand to be a spokesperson for trans people?"

State Senator McBride answered, "Well, I’ve been a spokesperson for the movement, and there are people doing that work. To do right by the LGBTQ community, I need to simply be the best member of Congress that I can be, and show that when you elect trans people or LGBTQ people or people of any underrepresented background, they can do the job as well as anyone else.

Being the best that she can be means looking out for everyone. Sarah McBride did that in the video below by holding the author of an anti-trans bill accountable.

McBride won Tuesday’s primary over businessmen Earl Cooper and Elias Weir, AP Reports neither of whom reported raising any money for their campaigns. Cooper is a political newcomer, while Weir finished dead last in a 2016 congressional primary with less than 1% of the vote.

McBride, meanwhile, raised almost $3 million in contributions from around the country. McBride achieved national recognition at the 2016 Democratic National Convention as the first openly transgender person to address a major party convention in the United States.

McBride will face Republican James Whalen IIII, a retired state police officer and construction company owner from Millsboro, who won the GOP primary race against Donyale Hall, a Dover businesswoman and a Gulf War-era veteran of the U.S. Air Force.

Democrats have held the seat since 2010.

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While serving as a Delaware State Senator Vote Right shows that McBride:

• Cosponsored a bill that requires all health benefit plans provided by medicaid to cover abortions and the termination of women's pregnancy in Delaware.
• Voted to pass a bill that authorizes the prescription of PREP and other preventative HIV medications in the state of Delaware.
• Voted to pass a bill that requires the state electoral college delegates go to the winner of the popular vote count.

 

I’m ready to be a bold changemaker in Congress, but I need your help. Can you help us make history by become a Founding Donor today?https://t.co/Dnj3FKQG4l

— Sen. Sarah McBride (@SarahEMcBride) June 26, 2023