Woke School Board Sued Over Punishing Parent For Calling Trans Athlete A ‘Tall Boy’

School boards have become increasingly extreme in their defense of transgender activism, despite overwhelming majorities of Americans rejecting that ideology. In the latest example, a new federal lawsuit has been filed by the Institute for Free Speech in support of a concerned parent who spoke out in favor of biology.

New Hampshire parent Beth Scaer spoke out against male athletes in girls' high school sports at her local school board meeting in 2024, only to have the board almost immediately cut her off. Then it threatened to have the police remove her for violating a policy against "derogatory comments." What outrageous, offensive vocal crime warranted such aggressive action? 

Calling a male athlete playing on the girls' soccer team a "tall boy."

Welcome to the world of transgender activism, where acknowledging a scientific reality is considered a "derogatory comment."

Concerned New Hampshire parent Beth Scaer, who was cut off by her local school board for calling a male athlete a tall boy. Visuals by Mugsy / Institute for Free Speech

Scaer thankfully, refused to take the school board’s actions lying down. This week, the Institute for Free Speech and local counsel Roy S. McCandless filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire against the Kearsarge Regional School Board. 

The suit, per an Institute for Free Speech press release, alleges that its enforcement of the unwritten rule against "derogatory comments" is being weaponzied to silence and censor parents on controversial topics.

When Scaer spoke up at the August 2024 meeting, Board Chair Alison Mastin stopped her within seconds and threatened police action if she continued speaking, because she correctly referred to a