NC plea to ban trans in sports
Volleyballer badly injured by bio male
A North Carolina high-school volleyball player has urged the state Legislature to pass a bill banning transgender athletes born male from playing on female sports teams after she was seriously injured when a transgender girl spiked a ball at her.
Payton McNabb, a senior at Hiwassee Dam HS in Murphy, told state representatives Wednesday that she suffered a concussion and neck injury during a game in September when the trans athlete sent the ball into her face.
“Due to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association policy allowing biological males to compete against biological females, my life has forever been changed,” McNabb said, WLOS reported.
She said she still struggles with the effects of her injuries. McNabb claimed she also has been forced to obtain accommodations at the school as a result of her “impaired” ability to understand and retain information.
“I’m not here for me, because I know that my time playing is coming to an end,” McNabb told lawmakers. “I’m here for every biological female athlete behind me. ”
She added: “Allowing biological males to compete against biological females is dangerous. I may be the first to come before you with an injury, but if this doesn’t pass, I won’t be the last.”
Also on hand to push for the legislation was former All-American Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, who gained national prominence for criticizing an NCAA decision allowing transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to compete against her in Division I women’s races.
On Wednesday, North Carolina’s Republican-controlled House passed H574, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, which would prohibit trans girls from joining female sports teams in middle school, high school and college.
The veto-proof vote was 73-39 — with three Democrats voting in favor — to separate sports by biological sex, based solely on students’ “reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
The bill now heads to the state’s Senate. With Wires