MANCHESTER, N.H.- A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a pair of transgender students and their parents challenging New Hampshire’s law that prevents boys from playing in girls’ sports has been dropped.
According to Chris Erchull, an attorney for GLAD Law representing Parker Tirrell and Iris Turmelle and their families, the suit filed against the state and former Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut was withdrawn voluntarily after the pair sought to change the law which prevented the children from playing on girls’ sports teams.
The pair first filed their suit in August of 2025 to block the law that says athletes in grades 5-12 and participating in an interscholastic sports or club athletic team sponsored by a public school or a private school whose students or teams compete against a public school, to play on teams matching the biological sex on the student’s birth certificate.
The suit also resulted in parents Anthony Foote and Kyle Fellers protesting the children’s participation by wearing pink arm bands with “XX” on them referenced the sex chromosomes associated with biological females.
