CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – Watch the video.
Payton McNabb was a varsity high school volleyball player from North Carolina. Her school was playing against another team that has a trans player on it – a biological male playing against females. He goes to spike the ball, which hit Payton squarely in the head. She crumbled to the ground. Her injury happened in 2022. Payton not recovered from the concussion she suffered, and no longer plays competitive sports.
A girls high school basketball team forfeited a game when their opponents suited up a biological male. He injured three of their players until the other team walked off the court. Video shows one of the injured players being flung to the floor like a rag doll.
Lia Thomas, the transgendered swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, was the 554th ranked male swimmer until re-writing the womans’ record books.
Chelsea Mitchell was the number one ranked high school sprint-runner in Connecticut. She lost four state championship races during her high school career to biological males. Her lawsuit asking that her name be entered in the record books is still pending.
Last month Wisconsin governor Tony Evers turned a blind eye to this unsafe and unfair competition. He vetoed a bill that would have required high school and college athletes to compete against others of their own gender.
The governor says this is unfair to LGBTQ kids. That’s wrong, too. It is entirely possible to support trans kids, but to draw a line that protects women’s athletics. At UPenn, that’s the conclusion that Lia Thomas’ own teammates came to. Lia is free to identify however she wishes. But she may not take an unfair advantage in athletic competition.
Governor Evers, how many young girls will give up on athletics when they realize that at the highest levels they will always lose to a trans-athlete? Or must someone get hurt first?
Chris Conley
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