AND THAT INCLUDES WHO OR WHAT YOU SAY YOU ARE
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.
Bad enough when biologically-male fake female trannies win track or swim meets competing against actual girls.
It’s way worse when an actual girl is injured by a fake female.
On what sane planet is this madness tolerated?
AND THAT INCLUDES WHO OR WHAT YOU SAY YOU ARE
Interesting that the video is unavailable...
“In addition to the safety concerns, the board also said it believes that male competitors have a “competitive advantage” over female opponents.”
No brown waste, Famous Downing Street Resident.*
*Thank you Jeff Taylor
Protecting the guilty
No kidding, you stupid, loathsome, moronic, sanctimonious trash.
They've got to be libertarians, because marijuana induced stupidity is the only explanation for that level of retard.
The Highlands High School administration and school board should be indicted, tried and convicted on child abuse charges.
Sounds like battery to me.
Normally that’s not a thing in sports — you consent to being hit.
But it is if the other side cheats — say a metal weight in a boxing glove.
This guy cheated by pretending to be a girl and playing girls sports.
She didn’t consent to playing a dude.
Why can’t “educators” figure out what normal people already know about males and females having a strength gap? Sure, there are strong girls that can beat a weak boy in some instances, but a weak boy can beat most typical girls. However, it’s not the weakest boys who are infiltrating girls’ sports. It seems to be boys who have been training in these sports and who just aren’t up to par with the boys they would normally be competing against. We’re not talking scrawny math nerds trying to win trophies against well-trained female athletes.
It’s available. I just watched it at the link to The Blaze provided.
Sherlock Holmes lived on Baker Street. The Prime Minister lives on Downing Street.
This loathsome practice is repeatedly providing examples of women, young or older, being victimized by these mentally deranged misogynists
and their Democrat/Communist enablers.
Last century I refereed men’s college volleyball.
I saw people (actual males) take hard spikes to the face and stay in the play. A bloody nose a few times, but seldom.
I NEVER saw a spike sooooo high speed that it went back “through the net” like the quoted person stated.
Did HE belong in that game? No
But I never saw a male player knock another male player out of the game with a spike.
221B Baker St.
Democrats are evil.
I play co-ed volleyball, and it’s just understood not to light up the females.
It’s also more for fun than highly competitive.
A guy hurts a girl he’s playing against
Can we just be honest?
Sherlock Holmes lived on Baker Street. The Prime Minister lives on Downing Street.
SHIT!
I’m skeptical of the severity of the injuries. No doubt it hurt a lot.
No way should a male be playing like that. I’ve played co-ed volleyball, and our rule was guys could only attack above the net from the back row — it was great. The girls could handle it, even though some guys really had a lot of power. It’s an extra ten feet away, which allows a split second more time to receive the ball. Saying the ball went back into the net doesn’t really mean anything, because a volleyball bounces really well.
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