If that name doesn’t quite ring a bell, Payton McNabb was a volleyball player in North Carolina whose team was facing off against another team that had a boy pretending to be a girl on it. She had a ball spiked so hard into her head by this boy that she is still suffering from the brain damage and will likely never recover fully.
In Palatine, Illinois, School District 211 has placed a boy on their girls’ volleyball team. The coach resigned in protest. Seventy girls tried out for 24 spots, one of which was given to this boy who had never played volleyball before. So one girl is possibly going to miss out on the opportunities both in high school and college that would have been associated with earning that final spot.
The school district is setting themselves up for a major lawsuit in addition to possibly losing their federal funding if any girl is injured by that boy, especially since he’s never played the game before.
ETA: But in California people have had enough. Two school districts (so far) have forfeited against a high school volleyball team with a boy pretending to be a girl on their roster. One school district has banned boys from girls’ sports altogether, regardless of state law. I do want to note that the decisions to forfeit are coming from the players, not the administrators, who, if they had their druthers (IMO) would force those girls to strip in front of boys and possibly be injured by them.
The school with the boy on their team is hiding behind California law and the mentally ill mother is going on tour telling people that they are just uneducated, unempathetic bigots for not wanting her boy in girls’ sports.
The pendulum is swinging, even in CA.
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