Volleyball Player Injured By Trans Athlete Fires Back At Dems Who Dismiss Safety Concerns
According to some Democrat lawmakers, male participation in women's sports is not a threat to females. Payton McNabb begs to differ.
McNabb is a former North Carolina high school volleyball player who was struck in the face by a ball spiked by a trans-identifying male in 2022. And she's still suffering from long-term complications caused by the injury.
So, understandably, McNabb is not happy with government officials who won't stand up for women's safety.
Like Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who said during a House Judiciary Committee markup on Thursday that "it is a tiny portion of people across the country that identify as trans, and not a single one of them is doing anything to harm you or your family."
"Stop it, we have better things to do in Congress," she said.
McNabb fired back on X: "Just getting back from my second doctor appointment this week, a year and a half later, I’m definitely going to have to disagree," she wrote.
"My life is forever changed because of an injury by a boy. So yeah… men have harmed women in our sports. But as long as your feelings don’t get hurt, right?"
In the same hearing, New York Rep. Jerry Nadler boldly stated that "men do not compete in women's sports" at all.
"Transgender women may compete in women's sports. It does no service to the truth or to the human biology or understanding of human biology that there's no such thing as transgender women, or for that matter, transgender men," Nadler said.
"We know that people did not ask to be born transgender, no more than (any) of us have to be born male or female. They were just born that way."
Despite the fact that every Democrat voted against it, the committee ultimately passed H.R. 7187, the Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act. The bill, which would ban biological men from competing on any women's sports teams, now heads to the GOP-led House for a vote.
As for McNabb, she said she still suffers from impaired vision, partial paralysis on her right side and constant headaches, as well as anxiety and depression.
In response to Jayapal and Nadler's dismissive comments on Thursday, OutKick's Riley Gaines wrote on X: "Democrats who deny this is happening are evil."