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NH Bulletin: Amid fraught landscape, school districts react differently to transgender sports ban law
In August, the Kearsarge Regional School Board took up a thorny question: How should it comply with a new law barring transgender girls from middle and high school sports?
Earlier that summer, Gov. Chris Sununu had signed the law, House Bill 1205, which required that schools separate their sports teams into male, female, and coed teams, and that they allow only kids who were born biologically female to join female sports teams.
NHPR: Her family has deep roots in New Hampshire. But to protect her trans daughter, she says, they had to leave.
Earlier this year, state lawmakers passed bills restricting the rights of transgender youth in New Hampshire. In a new memoir, a mother describes how anti-trans sentiment from her neighbors in Gilford and state lawmakers pushed her family out of their hometown and eventually the state.
Granite Post: Why this NH mom is fighting a battle against anti-trans ideology in the state
A staunch advocate of reproductive freedom, Michelle Cilley Foisy is doing everything in her power to help change hearts and minds in New Hampshire.
A mother of six, Foisy has testified against several anti-trans laws that have been brought before the Statehouse, and also spoken out in favor of the right to abortion care.
NH Bulletin: Judge extends order allowing transgender New Hampshire student to play sports
A federal judge is allowing Parker Tirrell, a transgender teenager, to continue playing high school soccer for two weeks as she weighs whether to take broader action against a new state law that bars transgender girls from playing girls’ sports.
Granite Post: After Gov. Sununu bans trans care for minors, this NH native shares her transition story
Here’s what it was like for a kid to have the support of her mother and her medical team as she went through gender-affirming care in New Hampshire.
Union Leader: Trans rights advocates decry impact of new state laws
More than 100 transgender residents and allies rallied outside the State House on Sunday night to send a message to Gov. Chris Sununu: In New Hampshire, it's "Live free or die" unless you are trans.
Keene Sentinel: Bills that would curb LGBTQ+ rights draw 200 protesters to Statehouse
New Hampshire residents gathered in front of the statehouse Wednesday morning to urge Gov. Chris Sununu to veto four recently passed bills that would curb rights for LGBTQ+ people.
Press Release: NH Senate Sends 1 More Anti-LGBTQ Bill to Governor Sununu’s Desk, With 4 Total Now
Advocates Call For Sununu to Immediately Veto All Bills That Would Set Back LGBTQ Rights
Press Release: NH Senate Votes to Ban Trans Girls from Middle and High School Sports, Cast LGBTQ+ Curriculum as “Objectionable Material”
Advocates Call For Sununu to Immediately Veto Bills That Would Set Back LGBTQ Rights
Press Release: NH Senate Tables Bill That Would Have Rolled Back Some Transgender Nondiscrimination Protections
Advocates thank NH State Senators, Ask Them to Apply Same Logic to House Bill 396
Press Release: NH Senate Advances Two Anti-LGBTQ Bills Targeting Rights of Transgender Granite Staters
Advocates detail harmful nature of these bills and urge all NH House members to oppose them