High school volleyball player says she suffered concussion after being injured by trans athlete, calls for ban

A North Carolina high school volleyball player mentioned she suffered vital and long-term bodily and psychological accidents final fall when she was spiked within the face by a transgender athlete who was capable of compete on a ladies’ crew due to a coverage put in place by the state’s highschool athletic affiliation. 

Payton McNabb, a senior at Hiwassee Dam Excessive College in Murphy, N.C., spoke out for the primary time about her accidents on Wednesday throughout a press convention the place she known as on state legislators to cross t​​he Equity in Girls’s Sports activities Act that might prohibit organic males from competing on ladies’ sports activities groups, citing her personal expertise. 

“Because of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association coverage of permitting organic males to compete towards organic females my life has endlessly been modified,” McNabb mentioned. 

CAITLYN JENNER CALLS JOE BIDEN’S TITLE IX PROPOSAL AN ATTEMPT TO ‘DESTROY WOMEN’S SPORTS’

“On Sept. 1, 2022, I used to be severely injured in a highschool volleyball recreation by a transgender athlete on the opposing crew. I suffered from a concussion and a neck damage that to this present day I’m nonetheless recovering from. Different accidents I nonetheless endure from at present embody impaired imaginative and prescient, partial paralysis on my proper aspect, fixed complications, in addition to anxiousness and despair.” 

McNabb mentioned she was unable to compete in her closing season, and whereas she at the moment performs for her college’s softball team, she’s unable to “carry out in addition to I’ve up to now,” on account of her accidents. 

Transgender rights advocates stood exterior the Ohio Statehouse to oppose and convey consideration to an modification to a invoice that might ban transgender ladies from collaborating in highschool and school ladies sports activities (Stephen Zenner/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket through Getty Photographs)

“My potential to be taught, retain, [and] comprehend has additionally been impaired, and I require lodging in school for testing due to this.” 

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM

McNabb acknowledged that whereas her athletic profession is nearing its finish, her objective for talking out concerning the incident now serves a bigger objective. 

“I am right here for each organic feminine athlete behind me. My little sister, my cousins, my teammates. Permitting organic males to compete towards organic females is harmful. I often is the first to return earlier than you with an damage, but when this does not cross I will not be the final.”

Lawmakers in North Carolina handed t​​he Fairness in Women’s Sports Act on Wednesday, a invoice that might bar organic males from taking part in on ladies’ sports activities groups in center college and thru school.  

SEC champion swimmer Riley Gaines speaks in the course of the common session on the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas, August 6, 2022. (REUTERS/Go Nakamura)

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

“My potential to compete was taken from me. Having to play towards organic males will not be a stage taking part in discipline and it’s most positively not secure,” McNabb added. 

A minimum of 20 different states have imposed comparable limits on transgender athletes on the Ok-12 or collegiate stage. The U.S. Home additionally handed a invoice on Thursday to bar federally supported faculties and faculties from permitting any athlete whose organic intercourse assigned at start was male from competing on ladies’ or ladies’s sports activities crew. 

The Related Press contributed to this report.