Teen volleyball star injured by transgender player testifies

The North Carolina state legislature is considering a bill banning transgender athletes who were born male from playing on female sports teams.

Payton McNabb thinks that’s a good idea.

McNabb, a high school senior and volleyball player in Murphy, North Carolina, told a state committee hearing Thursday that she suffered serious injuries during a September match when a transgender girl spiked the ball into her face.

The incident left McNabb with a concussion and neck injury and months later she still suffers from partial paralysis on her right side, vision problems, headaches and depression.

“Due to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association policy allowing biological males to compete against biological females my life has forever been changed,” Payton McNabb, now a senior at Hiwassee Dam High School in Murphy, North Carolina, said at the the legislature hearing (via WLOS.com).

Riley Gaines, the former NCAA swimmer who has become an outspoken crusader for women’s sports rights, shared video of the play in which McNabb got injured. It is a brutal but legal spike.

North Carolina’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, recently passed in the state house and is working its way through the senate. The bill would prohibit athletes from competing on sports teams that do not match their assigned sex at birth.

“I’m here for every biological female athlete behind me. My little sister, my cousins, my teammates,” McNabb continued in her statement. “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.”

A number of states and school districts have passed or are considering similar legislation, which transgender advocates claim is discriminatory. In response, the Biden Administration has proposed a rule that would prohibit bans on transgender athletes. It would be included as a provision of Title IX.

[WLOS.com]