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Parents win settlement after being punished for protesting ‘transgender’ male

A New Hampshire school district will shell out $275,000 to settle a lawsuit after it punished family members of a soccer player for wearing “XX” wristbands during a game.

The settlement also affirms the rights of spectators to quietly protest during games.

“Plaintiffs have a First Amendment right to silently wear pink wristbands bearing the XX symbol on the sidelines, in the spectator’s area, or in the parking lot of any Bow District sporting event,” the declaratory judgement states.

The school district also acknowledged that it “violated Plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights when it barred Plaintiffs from wearing the wristbands at the girls’ varsity soccer game on September 17, 2024.”

Controversy erupted after the plaintiffs, who included the parents and a grandparent, chose to wear the wristbands at a game two years ago. The family members did not interrupt the game, harass the gender-confused player, or otherwise cause a disturbance.

Still, school officials stepped in to violate the family members’ First Amendment rights.

As the Institute for Free Speech explained:

School officials, accompanied by a police officer, confronted them. The referee halted play until one spectator removed his wristband, and school officials later issued trespass orders barring [the plaintiffs] from school grounds, preventing them from attending their children’s games and other school activities for a time.

While First Amendment jurisprudence does allow for school district officials to regulate speech when it could cause a “material disruption,” attorneys failed to argue that the spectators were causing trouble.

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Four States Have Voted to Kick Men Out of Women’s Sports — Including Deep-Blue Washington and Colorado

Voters in four states have approved ballot measures restricting transgender athletes from competing on girls’ teams.

The measures passed in Washington, Colorado, Arizona, and Nebraska.

The results in deep blue Washington and Colorado are particularly notable following an election in which Democrats made major gains nationally.

In Washington, voters approved Initiative 638 with more than 56 percent of the vote.

The measure requires participation on girls’ school sports teams to be based on biological sex and requires healthcare-provider verification for students seeking to compete on female teams.

Colorado voters also approved Proposition 134, with roughly 52 percent supporting the measure.

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Arizona Voters Pass Ban on Boys in Girls’ Sports, Despite Electing Dems Statewide

While Democrats across the nation performed well during Tuesday’s midterm elections, their policy prescriptions didn’t appear to fare as well.

In Arizona, for instance, voters approved a conservative ballot measure that’ll ban “transgender” students from using their preferred locker room and pronouns, according to NPR member radio station KJZZ.

“Prop. 318 was referred to the ballot by state Republican lawmakers earlier this year, and was opposed by legislative Democrats,” the station reported.

The ballot measure passed with 58 percent of the vote, despite Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs having vetoed similar legislative measures in the past.

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Washington State Voters Back Initiative to Block Trans Athletes from Girls’ Sports

Voters in Washington State are backing Initiative 638, a measure that would ban males who identify as female from playing on girls’ sports teams.

Initiative 638, also called the Sex Verification Requirements for Female School Sports Initiative, would prohibit biologically male students from competing with and against female students and would require girls to submit documents from their doctor stating that they were born female.

While votes are still being counted in Washington, as of Wednesday, the “yes” vote on the initiative led with 57 percent to the “no” vote of 43 percent, and it seems most likely that once counting is done, the “yes” votes will prevail.

“To every female athlete who wondered whether her voice mattered: tonight, Washington heard you,” said Brian Heywood, founder of Let’s Go Washington, the political organization backing the measure, according to the Washington State Standard. “Five years from now, I hope girl athletes don’t know this fight took place, because that will mean that boys know their place is not in girls’ sports.”

“This is a victory for girls like Frances, Ahnaleigh, Sadie, Bayley, Charlie, Sierra, and countless others who have been told time and again by the majority party that their voices and opportunities don’t matter. The opposition was working overtime to tell these girls that their experiences were made up and didn’t matter. Tonight, those girls see that well over a million Washingtonians stand with them and care that their sports are safe and fair. Voters have your backs,” Heywood added.

If the measure passes, it would require School boards, or other school governing entities, to create rules for what sex verification would look like. It would rely on “one or more” of the following: “the student’s reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels.”

Successful campaigns joined the effort in Washington State for similar bans on trans athletes in girls’ sports that passed in Nebraska and Arizona.

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Florida governor candidate David Jolly suggests boys have a constitutional right to play on girls’ sports teams

David Jolly, a former Republican congressman who is now running as a Democrat against U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds to replace Ron DeSantis as Florida governor, is raising eyebrows in the Sunshine State with his suggestion that boys have a constitutional right to play on girls’ sports teams.

His comments came during the “To the Contrary” podcast Charlie Sykes last year, and were unearthed Wednesday by Libs of TikTok.

Sykes had asked Jolly outright: “How do you navigate that issue?”

“I fundamentally think it’s an issue for the courts,” the Democrat replied. “And I don’t think one rule should apply to everything.”

“I think some latitude among the sports leagues to make decisions, but ultimately, it’s a constitutional question that the courts are gonna have to decide.”

Jolly continued: “I think where I fundamentally diverge from Republicans on this issue is you can immediately see where leaders and voters are either working in good faith towards equity or in bad faith against it. This is a new and novel moment for us as a country.

“It’s OK to wrestle with it. But you’re either wrestling to resolve it on behalf of all Americans, their fundamental and constitutional rights, their respect and their dignity, or you’re working to humiliate them. And I think it’s pretty disgusting what we’ve seen from Republicans in the past several years on this.

“I don’t think we need to knock down that youth soccer player who is working with their family and their doctor on whatever their current crisis is personally. I think it can be supportive of them to allow them to play in youth sports.

“If it’s a question of Olympic trials, obviously I think you get too far down the road there saying, Maybe it’s a bridge too far to let trains athletes in certain sports, but let’s leave it to the sports leagues.”

Donalds is a staunch opponent of biological males competing in girls’ or women’s sports, and his campaign posted video Wednesday of the Republican blasting Jolly’s stance.

“My opponent’s somebody who says it’s OK for boys to be in girls’ sports. It’s just him and the WNBA,” Donalds said.

“They’re the only two that think this is OK. Everybody else has said, ‘No, that’s actually quite stupid.’ Even the Europeans are realizing that’s dumb. But this is where the radical Democrats have gone in America today, and it’s sad to see.”

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Arrested Assistant Principal Resigns After 12-Year-Olds’ Softball Brawl That Left A Dad Unconscious

A youth softball game in Sugar Land, Texas, turned violent Saturday, and a father is still in the hospital with a broken jaw, a fractured skull and three brain bleeds, according to his attorney. Police arrested Kiarious Marshun Hall and his wife, Jazmine Hall, after the fight at Imperial Park during a game between two 12-year-old select teams, ABC13 reported.

Charging documents say the dispute began over Hall’s behavior while the opposing team was at bat. Hall told officers another man from the Timbergrove Thunder approached him and said he “couldn’t cheer before the players pitched the ball.” Hall’s daughter plays for Illusions Gold 2033.

Investigators say witness video shows what happened next. Court records state Hall struck another father in the face with a metal water bottle, knocking him unconscious, then swung the bottle at a second man before the confrontation turned into a brawl. Hall claimed the men had “elbowed and poked his chest” and that he acted in self-defense, but court documents say the video does not show that.

The second man, grandfather Gary Greaser, told ABC13 he stepped in to disarm Hall after seeing the first man struck. “I said ‘You can’t do this.’ I took him, I wanted to disarm the guy, because he’s going to do it to somebody else,” Greaser said. Court records say video allegedly shows Jazmine Hall then running into the fight and pushing Greaser, and both falling into nearby bushes before bystanders separated everyone. Greaser needed seven stitches in his chin, suffered extensive scrapes and has a broken hip. “It’s medieval times like we’re going to smash each other in the head with something,” he said.

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US DOJ Is Reviewing Forceful Ejection of Brandi Kruse and Fans Wearing XX-XY Shirts at Friday’s Portland Thorns Female Soccer Game

As reported earlier… Independent journalist Brandi Kruse says she was physically removed from a Portland Thorns female professional soccer game simply for wearing a shirt supporting sex-based protections in women’s athletics.

Kruse, host of the independent political commentary program unDivided, was escorted out of Providence Park in Portland, Oregon, on Friday night, October 23, during a National Women’s Soccer League match between the Portland Thorns FC and North Carolina Courage.

Her offense was wearing a T-shirt from XX-XY Athletics, a sportswear company founded by former Levi’s executive Jennifer Sey that advocates preserving female athletic categories based on biological sex.

Kruse said she and other supporters peacefully wore their shirts before being confronted and assaulted by opposing fans.

Then, according to her account, stadium security ultimately removed her group rather than the individuals she accused of attacking them.

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WNBA Releases Letter- Says Enes Cantor Freedom and Royce White Cannot Play in League But REFUSE TO ANSWER What Is a Women… Update: And They Allowed a Trans Man to Play!

The WNBA dashed the hopes of trans athletes everywhere when they released their letter earlier this week on trans athletes in the league.

The WNBA WILL NOT allow Enes Cantor Freedom and Royce (Roysha) White to play in their women’s league.

But they will not define what a woman is! Why is that?

The once trans-welcoming league is now the nation’s leading openly trans-phobic league!

Enes Cantor Freedom released their letter on Thursday.

And, they still won’t define what it means to be a woman!

Never forget that the WNBA had an openly trans player in the league for years.

The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that the league previously allowed trans players to play.

In fact, one of the trans players has been very vocal.

Layshia Clarendon was born a female but decided to have her breasts removed while playing in the WNBA. She played in the league from 2013 to 2024.

Clay Travis posted the tweet earlier on Thursday. Travis believes the WNBA has a major legal problem.

The league allowed Clarendon to play while receiving testosterone, but Royce and Enes are not allowed?

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Ex-MLB Player and Wife Charged in $60K Youth Baseball Fraud

Ex-Toronto Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Rays player Richard Butler and his wife have been charged in connection with an alleged youth baseball training fraud scheme in Canada.

Between April 1 and Oct. 31 of last year, approximately $60,000 in registration fees for the 2025-2026 Ontario Devil Rays training program was allegedly deposited into a bank account associated with the program, police said in a news release Tuesday.

But funds were later transferred to other accounts associated with the accused couple — Michelle Butler, 52, and former big leaguer Richard Butler, 53, both of Frankford, Ontario.

The registration fees were allegedly not used for the program and the services as agreed on were not provided, police said.

CBC News notes families who paid the registration received an email on Oct. 19, 2025, saying the business had been dissolved due to financial hardship and claiming bankruptcy, police said.

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NCAA sues Ohio governor over his executive order allowing schools to ignore new eligibility rule

The NCAA filed a federal lawsuit against Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday, three days after he signed an executive order giving the state’s universities the option of allowing athletes who graduated from high school in 2022 to play a fifth year in defiance of the organizations’s new eligibility rules.

NCAA President Charlie Baker said the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Ohio, was an “extraordinary step” designed to prevent DeWine from taking a step that would make it “impossible for all schools to compete on a level playing field.”

Under the order, public and private universities in Ohio can allow the Class of ’22 athletes to play, even though the NCAA’s new guidance excludes those who have already played four seasons. The rule, passed in June, is the subject of multiple court fights.

“This Complaint seeks to halt a misguided attempt to give Ohio colleges and universities an unfair, unprecedented and unwarranted competitive advantage in stadiums and arenas throughout the country,” the introduction to the lawsuit reads. “College sports, like all sports, depend on participants following the rules. (DeWine) is attempting to give Ohio institutions a hall pass to break the rules.”

DeWine’s move was the latest in what has become a daily digest of legal maneuverings that are creating new rules on a state-by-state basis.

In reaction to the governor’s move, the Ohio Supreme Court said it would step in and determine the legality of the executive order. As part of that, it paused an appeals court ruling in a case there that had declared the ’22 athletes ineligible. The court asked both sides to file briefs in the case, in which basketball player Filip Borovićanin is the lead plaintiff, by next Monday.

Baker said the NCAA did not believe the Supreme Court’s order did, in fact, declare those players immediately eligible to compete and said it would submit arguments in that case by Monday.

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