The Cherokee County Board of Training in North Carolina voted final month to forfeit ladies volleyball video games in opposition to a rival faculty after a transgender athlete reportedly injured a participant with a spike.
The board voted 5-1 Sept. 21 for Hiwassee Dam Excessive Faculty to forfeit all ladies volleyball matches in opposition to Highlands Faculty after a Hiwassee Dam participant reportedly suffered head and neck accidents from a spike from the Highlands transgender athlete.
“The county is not going to take part in any volleyball video games, varsity or junior varsity, in opposition to Highlands as a result of security considerations,” the board stated.
David Payne, Hiwassee Dam’s athletic director, supported the choice, and Vice Chair Jeff Martin felt that “there's a aggressive benefit and a security concern for sure groups — it’s not the identical for all groups.”
Payne believed “a press release wanted to be made and that it’s unfair and unsafe” whereas additionally saying there have been “combined emotions” from gamers and fogeys about going through Highlands sooner or later.
Board member Joe Wooden stated the choice was made based mostly on security, not gender.
The board member who voted in opposition to the transfer, Keesha Curtis, “believes all faculty principals and ADs ought to make that call.”
The Hiwassee Dam participant continues to be affected by long-term concussion signs and has not been cleared to play, in response to Training First Alliance.
Transgender athletes competing in ladies’s sports activities has develop into a controversial subject, particularly after Lia Thomas, a organic man, received an NCAA championship in ladies’s swimming earlier this yr.
A number of states have handed legal guidelines requiring athletes to take part in sports activities based mostly on their organic intercourse.
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