The insurer for the Kearsarge Regional School District will pay more than $33,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a Nashua resident who claims her First Amendment rights were violated during a public meeting last year.

The lawsuit, filed by attorneys from the Institute for Free Speech, along with local counsel Roy S. McCandless, claims Beth Scaer’s First Amendment rights were violated when she was “silenced and threatened with police intervention” after referring to a transgender athlete on a girls soccer team as a “tall boy” during the Aug. 29, 2024, meeting of the Kearsarge Regional School Board in New London.

Under the terms of the settlement, the Kearsarge Regional School Board agrees that any policy or practice prohibiting public commentors from speaking “derogatorily at board meetings

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