Posted on 10/19/2022 4:45:15 AM PDT by george76
A girls' high school volleyball player in North Carolina recently suffered severe injuries to her head and neck after a trans opponent spiked a ball into her face.
Early last month, Hiwassee Dam High School competed against Highlands High School in a girls' volleyball tournament. During the game, an unnamed biological male playing for Highlands spiked a ball over the net and hit an unnamed Hiwassee Dam player directly in the face.
Though video of the incident is grainy, the unnamed female player can clearly be seen lying on the floor for some time before recovering enough to walk off the court on her own power.
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The girl is still said to be experiencing long-term concussion symptoms, such as vision problems, and has not been cleared to return to play either by a physician or a neurologist.
As a result of her injury, the Cherokee County Board of Education voted 5-1 to cancel all future volleyball games against Highlands High School, citing a "safety issue."
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the ball had allegedly been traveling at 70 mph when it struck the girl's face. "I don’t know if that’s faster than normal, but it seemed like it was coming off very fast, abnormally, especially fast," Tatham said. "It not only hit her in the face, then the ball came off of her face with enough force to then go back through the net."
In addition to the safety concerns, the board also said it believes that male competitors have a "competitive advantage" over female opponents.
"The competitive advantage issue certainly has to come up in any scenario with that type of transgender conversion, per se," said Jeff Martin, vice chair of the board. "I can tell you that the board wasn’t searching out this kind of thing. It was brought to our attention based on safety concerns."
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Board member Arnold Mathews reiterated that the decision applies only to Highlands and only to girls' volleyball. The North Carolina High School Athletic Association confirmed that each "local school system" can decide not to play games against particular opponents or schools.
"While we would prefer that schools or teams play all games it schedules," the NCHSAA said, "that latitude does exist."
Though the WTVC video below does contain clips from the Hiwassee Dam/Highlands game, it does not depict the spike in question. The MaxPreps video for this particular game also appears to be unavailable.
Sounds like democrats to me.
Why are trans girls not invading men’s sports?
I agree. You’re pretty much a full-on a$$hole if you spike the woman across from you.
Same for tennis at the net.
Don’t be that guy.
A scan of Highlands HS volleyball roster shows a tall player with a common “trans name” and a short video with “it” having an awkward posture/gait
I don’t even hit at the guys. I go for open spaces, angles, and “drop shots”.
DemonRats. LiberTARDians. Socialists. All roots of the same corrupt, demented, rotten tree. Loathsome wastes of oxygen/useless eaters.
“ No brown waste, Famous Downing Street Resident.*
Should be Baker St, but lol.
Might depend on the attitude of the player across from you 🤔 😉
It is utter insanity that any woman is still voting for Democrats.
When I was in hs in the 80s (obviously this shut wouldn’t have been tolerated to begin with) when any guy hurt or even threatened the girls they got wrecked -sometimes on the spot or in more egregious circumstances we’d catch them alone and they were taught a lesson that usually carried permanent reminders
World seemed like a better place back then too
I only light a dude up if he was too aggressive to one of my females.
I was six packed (hit in the face with a spike) in women’s college volleyball - whiplash lasted over a month…. Cannot imagine a 70 mph hit.
At last women’s sports are fun to watch. Toughen up girl!
Should be a lawsuit there but in reality, girls need to start boycotting any game that allows a transgender to play in it i.e. if you’re playing a team that has a transgender on it then don’t play that team.
As a gentleman should!
Amen. My experience as well.
Part of the degradation of our culture is the emasculation of boys, so that they won’t even come to the defense of a girl being hurt by a bully male.
They’ll just stand and watch it happen, face blank, hands at their sides, quivering, afraid to take any action.
Play with a rabid dog and you're likely to get bit...and also get rabies which if left untreated will kill you.
Maybe, just maybe, now these girls will understand that it's dangerous to cater to mental illnesses. They might also understand that there are no adults in the school district, the school, the athletic league, nor at home. These girls just might grasp that they need to grow up because they're on their own.
Let's see if these girls learned the first two Killhouse Rules well: 1. Nobody is coming to save you. 2. Everything is your responsibility.
Nope sorry. The instant she walked out on to the court, she consented. All she had to do was refuse participation. That doesn't make any of this right.
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