Do the rights of parents protesting a transgender athlete’s play outweigh the potential harm to a girl representing her school on a soccer field? That's the central question a federal appeals judge will have to answer.

Oral arguments were held Wednesday morning in a Boston courtroom in the appeal of a ruling by a federal judge in New Hampshire denying a request from parents for a preliminary injunction in their First Amendment lawsuit against school officials in Bow.

Attorneys from the Institute for Free Speech and attorney Richard J. Lehmann filed a lawsuit in September 2024 in federal court in Concord against Bow school administrators on behalf of Bow parents Kyle Fellers, Anthony and Nicole Foote, and Eldon Rash.

The lawsuit claimed the rights of the four plaintiffs were violated whe

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