Volleyball player injured by transgender athlete calls for ban to protect women
Luke Gentile
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A female high school volleyball player in North Carolina who was injured by a transgender athlete spoke to state lawmakers Wednesday, calling on them to pass a ban on biological men from competing in female sports.
Hiwassee Dam High School senior Payton McNabb suffered a concussion and neck injury in September when a transgender competitor spiked the ball in her face, according to a report.
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“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 told lawmakers.
Her injuries continue to affect her life through impaired vision, partial paralysis, unremitting depression, anxiety, and headaches, she said.
She has had to seek out school accommodations due to her now “impaired abilities to process information,” according to McNabb.
“I was unable to play the rest of my last volleyball season, and although I’m currently playing softball I’m not able to perform as well as I know I have in the past because of the injury,” she said. “I’m not here for me because I know that my time playing is coming to an end … I’m here for every biological female athlete behind me. My little sister, my cousins, my teammates.”
“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.”
Riley Gaines voiced support for McNabb following her testimony.
“Watch the clip of Payton McNabb getting spiked in the face by a male competing with the women,” Gaines tweeted.
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“Then watch her testimony she gave today for the first time publicly. I was honored to stand alongside her in NC to continue the fight to protect women’s sports.”
North Carolina’s House passed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, legislation banning biological men from competing against biological women at the middle school, high school, and college level.