A
North Carolina

college board
voted final month to forfeit all
ladies’s volleyball
matches towards a rival college due to the presence of a
transgender
athlete.

The Cherokee County college board in western North Carolina voted 5-1 on Sept. 21 to forfeit all matches for the ladies’s volleyball groups at district excessive faculties towards Highlands College, which is positioned within the neighboring Macon County College District. The vote got here after a scholar athlete at Hiwassee Dam Excessive College was injured after a transgender participant on the Highlands volleyball crew
reportedly
spiked the ball into her head.

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“The County won’t take part in any volleyball video games, varsity or junior varsity, towards Highlands as a consequence of security considerations,” the
minutes
from the board’s assembly learn.

The board’s resolution had the assist of Hiwassee Dam Excessive College’s athletic director, who, in line with the assembly minutes, advised the board that “a press release wanted to be made and that it [was] unfair and unsafe” for groups to proceed to compete towards Highlands.

The assembly minutes point out there was a considerable disagreement amongst audio system, however in the end just one board member, Keesha Curtis, voted towards the transfer. Curtis reportedly mentioned she voted towards the measure as a result of she thought all the district’s college principals and athletic administrators ought to have made the choice whether or not or to not compete towards Highlands.

Board member Joe Wooden, who voted in favor of the movement, mentioned that he arrived at his resolution “based mostly on security,” not on the athlete’s intercourse.

The Washington Examiner contacted the varsity district for remark however didn’t obtain a response.

Transgender athletes competing in ladies’s sports activities has turn into a hot-button tradition warfare concern over the previous 12 months after Lia Thomas, a organic male who identifies as a transgender lady, gained an NCAA championship in ladies’s swimming earlier this 12 months. A number of states have handed legal guidelines requiring collegiate athletes to compete in sports activities based mostly on their organic intercourse. Efforts to cross comparable laws in North Carolina, nonetheless, have up to now failed.

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In June, the Biden administration proposed an up to date rule for the enforcement of Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the premise of intercourse in instructional settings. The proposed regulation would broaden the definition of intercourse to incorporate gender identification and sexual orientation, elevating considerations that faculties could be required to permit transgender athletes to compete as ladies. The administration, although, introduced it could be conducting a separate rulemaking course of for athletics within the coming months.