North Carolina school district votes to forfeit games against rival after transgender athlete injures player

The Cherokee County Board of Schooling in North Carolina voted final month to forfeit ladies volleyball video games in opposition to a rival college after a transgender athlete reportedly injured a participant with a spike.

The board voted 5-1 Sept. 21 for Hiwassee Dam Excessive College to forfeit all ladies volleyball matches in opposition to Highlands College 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 resulting from security issues,” the board mentioned.

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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 “an announcement wanted to be made and that it is unfair and unsafe” whereas additionally saying there have been “combined emotions” from gamers and fogeys about dealing with Highlands sooner or later.

Board member Joe Wooden mentioned the choice was made primarily based on security, not gender.

The board member who voted in opposition to the transfer, Keesha Curtis, “believes all college principals and ADs ought to make that call.”

Picture from a ladies volleyball recreation 
(KSAZ)

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The Hiwassee Dam participant continues to be affected by long-term concussion signs and has not been cleared to play, in response to Schooling First Alliance.

Transgender athletes competing in girls’s sports activities has turn into a controversial matter, particularly after Lia Thomas, a organic man, gained an NCAA championship in girls’s swimming earlier this 12 months.

A ball on the court docket earlier than a match between the Dominican Republic and Serbia in the course of the FIVB Ladies’s Volleyball World Cup Japan 2015 at Sendai Metropolis Gymnasium Aug. 30, 2015, in Sendai, Japan.  
(Masashi Hara/Getty Pictures for FIVB)

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A number of states have handed legal guidelines requiring athletes to take part in sports activities primarily based on their organic intercourse.