FFS Friday: Payton McNabb
March 7, 2025
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Today’s FFS Friday honors Payton McNabb, a young woman who was permanently injured when a male volleyball player who was permitted to compete on an opposing high school girls’ volleyball team spiked a ball directly onto her head.
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I speak to you today to represent not only myself, but to ensure that all female athletes, my little sister, my cousins, and my teammates, have access to fair competition.
Payton played sports in high school. A lot of them: softball, basketball, and volleyball. On September 1, 2022, she was struck in the head by a spiked ball during a volleyball game by a male athlete on the opposing team. He was allowed to play in girls’ volleyball on the basis of his supposed “girl gender identity.” As a result of the impact, she suffered a concussion and neck injury. She has said that she was always aware of the possibility of injury during competition, but that the hit that day was different. She says that it was “so violent” that she was knocked unconscious. She says that years later, her body and mind are still recovering. She still suffers from partial paralysis on her right side, vision problems, cognitive issues, constant headaches, and more.
She recently testified in support of North Carolina HB 185, the Protection of Women in Sports Act. During her testimony, she said, “Women have a right to fair and equal opportunity, on and off the playing field. Men have no place in our single-sex spaces. I speak to you today to represent not only myself, but to ensure that all female athletes, my little sister, my cousins, and my teammates, have access to fair competition.”
I have met Payton on a few occasions. We were both in Virginia Beach last year to protest against a male athlete who calls himself “Sadie” competing in NCAA Division III Track and Field championships. Given the opportunity, I would proudly stand with her again at any time to speak out for the sex-based rights of women and girls.
Payton, if you’re reading this, today’s FFS Friday is for you.
The far left progressive are not funny at all. I find it hard to listen to them for anything anymore. One of the reasons I quit coed based softball was balls that came far too hard and too fast for little hands. Best wishes forPayton! Sorry the world let you down. But we’re trying to Make things make sense again… I am opposed to much of what the administration stands for, but I stand behind them on title nine.
It infuriates me beyond words that Payton McNabb will be saddled with lifelong disabilities because a mortal threat to her safety and dignity was treated like a joke.
The retort is always the same: female athletes are transphobic. If we can't take the pressure of having a volley ball smashed into our faces at 70 mph every now and then, we should stay home and take up knitting.
When was the last time a man complained about the unfairness of a woman "competing" against him in rugby, boxing, judo, football, basketball, or that most dangerous of all sports, volleyball?
It bears daily repeating that the problem with allowing men to "compete" in women's sports is not because they're "trans."
It's because they're men.