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NoneCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Two New Hampshire fathers who were barred from school district events for wearing pink wristbands marked “XX” to represent female chromosomes insisted at a federal court hearing Thursday that they didn't set out to harass or otherwise target a transgender soccer player who played on the team. But a judge hearing the case suggested the message the parents sent may matter more than their intentions. Kyle Fellers and Anthony Foote sued the Bow school district after being banned from school grounds for wearing the wristbands at their daughters' soccer game in September. The no-trespass orders have since expired, but a judge is deciding whether the plaintiffs should be allowed to wear the wristbands and carry signs at upcoming school events, including basketball games, swim meets and a music concert, while the case proceeds. Testifying at Thursday's hearing, both men said that they did not view the wristbands as a protest against Parker Tirrell, a transgender girl on the opposing team, but rather as a show of support for their daughters and their teammates. U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe questioned whether there is a meaningful distinction and whether their intentions matter. “Sometimes the message you think you’re sending might not be the message that is being sent,” he said. McAuliffe asked Foote whether it occurred to him that a transgender person might interpret the pink XX wristbands as an attempt to invalidate their existence. “If he’s a trans female, pink might be a color he likes,” Foote said. McAuliffe also noted that while both plaintiffs said they had no problem with transgender people outside the issue of sports, they repeatedly referred to the athlete in question as a boy. “You seem to go out of your way to suggest there’s no such thing as a trans girl,” McAuliffe said. Foote disagreed, saying it was “like learning a new language” to refer to transgender people. In a separate courtroom earlier Thursday, another judge held a hearing on a lawsuit brought by Parker Tirrell and another student challenging the state law that bans transgender athletes in grades 5 to 12 from teams that align with their gender identity. It requires schools to designate all teams as either girls, boys or coed, with eligibility determined based on students’ birth certificates “or other evidence.” That federal judge ruled earlier this year that the teens can try out for and play on girls school sports teams. The order only applies to those two individuals for now as they seek to overturn the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act on behalf of all transgender girl students in New Hampshire. Lawyers for the teens said in court Thursday they hoped the matter could go to trial and be resolved before the start of the next school year in September. They said the teens’ school districts and others in the state have asked for guidance regarding the statute. Lawyers for the state said they needed more time to prepare. Judge Talesha Saint-Marc suggested the timing of the trial was ambitious and asked that both sides talk further about scheduling. Gov. Chris Sununu, who signed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act into law in July, has said it “ensures fairness and safety in women’s sports by maintaining integrity and competitive balance in athletic competitions.” About half of states have adopted similar measures. In the Bow case, school district officials have said they acted appropriately in sanctioning the parents for conduct they knew violated school policy at athletic events. They'll explain their evidence on Friday. On Thursday, the plaintiff's lawyer, Endel Kolde, accused the district of “breathtaking” overreach by asserting that the wristbands target transgender students in general, regardless of whether such students were present at the events. “This is viewpoint discrimination, and it’s very clear they’re proud of it,” Kolde said. Kolde initially conceded that a school district can limit speech “to some degree” to protect children from harassment, but he stopped short of agreeing with the judge’s claim that yelling “transgender students out” at a particular player would be subject to such regulation. “It might be,” he said. “I’m trying to get you to concede the obvious,” McAuliffe said. “It’s less than obvious to me,” Kolde said. Feller, the first witness in the case involving the wristbands, said he purchased them thinking his daughter and her teammates would wear them, but ended up wearing one himself after they declined. After being told to leave the game, he stood in the parking lot with a sign that said “Protect women’s sports for female athletes.” “I wanted to support women’s sports and I believed what was going on was a travesty,” he said.More than 20.6 million people visited a news website or app in October, reaching 96.2% of online Australians aged 14+, according to Ipsos iris data. Among the local news events and entertainment that fuelled interest and attracted audiences were King Charles and Queen Camilla’s Australian visit, the finales of The Block and The Voice Australia, and Queensland election results. Global news that piqued the interest of Australians were the US election results, Hurricane Milton hitting Florida and the tragic death of former One Direction star Liam Payne. ABC News led the charge in audience numbers with over 11,000, followed by News.com.au. Nine’s online news website trailed behind in third, followed by 7News.com.au, while Daily Mail Australia rounded out the top five. The chart below shows the News brands’ ranking during October 2024 by online audience size. As summer approaches and the live music festival season ready to get into swing, there has been a 2% month on month increase in online audiences, or 292,000 Australians aged, 14+, in the Events and Attractions category, to reach a 13.9 million-strong audience in total. This represents an 11% year on year increase. This increase was predominantly driven by the Music Events sub-category, which jumped by 30%, or 650,000 more visitors month on month, as Oasis, Laneway and Knotfest tickets all went on sale. The increases were driven by people aged 14 to 24, with a huge 97% month on month, or 348,000, jump in online audiences. The 40 to 54 ‘Oasis generation’ swelled by 28%, or an additional 162,000 people, month on month in the category. A range of conferences, including the high-profile SXSW Australia, saw the Business Expos and Conferences sub-category rise by 29%, or 57,000 people, month on month to reach an audience of 255,000. The chart below shows the Events and Attractions brands’ ranking during October 2024 by online audience size. Ipsos iris reported a number of increases in other categories, including a 11%, or 967,000, online audience rise in the Energy and Utilities category year on year. The Homes & Property category, buoyed by the Spring selling season, rose by 8%, or 1 million year on year. The Social Networking and Finance categories hit record audiences in October, at 21.4 million and 20.7 million respectively – and the highest since the launch of Ipsos iris in January 2023. The Automotive category hit a peak for time spent online per person, up 8% to 21.21 minutes on average, while Health also peaked at 60.27 minutes on average, up by 20%, in October – and both the highest since Ipsos iris’s launch. Ipsos iris, Australia’s digital audience measurement currency endorsed by IAB Australia, showed that more than 21.4 million Australians aged 14+ used the internet in October and spent on average 4.6 hours per day, or almost 141 hours for the month, online. The most consumed website and app categories in September were social networking (21.4 million), search engines (21.3 million), technology (21.3 million), retail and commerce (21.1 million) and entertainment (21 million). Ipsos iris, which officially launched in March 2023, provides accurate data about the 21.4 million Australians aged 14+ who access a wide variety of digital content and services across smartphone, PC/laptop and tablet devices.Gophers junior guard Mara Braun will not travel with the University of Minnesota women’s basketball team to its tournament in New Orleans later this week. Instead, she’ll stay behind and have surgery on the right foot she re-injured last week . “She’ll have the surgery and get back to working on her recovery,” Gophers coach Dawn Plitzuweit said. Plitzuweit said a decision on whether Braun will attempt to return this year is still pending. “It’s way too early to tell,” she said. The team’s leading scorer, Braun originally injured her right foot landing on an opponent in the fourth quarter of the Gophers game at Illinois on Jan. 28. She had surgery then and was lost until the Gophers began play in the WNIT tournament. But, after two games there, she tweaked the injury and missed the final three games . Last season it took about two months for Braun to return. It remains to be seen how her recovery goes this time, but Braun would be eligible for a medical redshirt should she miss the remainder of the 2024-25 season. The Gophers were 5-0 when Braun stepped wrong and re-injured the foot in the morning shootaround prior to the Nov. 20 game against Eastern Illinois. She has watched the last two games from the bench, wearing a walking boot. Since the start of the 2023-24 season the Gophers are 21-6 with Braun in the starting lineup, 6-10 without her. The Gophers have beaten both Eastern Illinois and Montana since Braun’s latest setback. Next up, they’ll play Houston on Friday in New Orleans.

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