A California father has come forward to announce his daughter was seriously injured by a biological male transgender player.
The father, who has kept his name a secret for safety reasons, says that his daughter took a spiked ball to the head and was concussed by a transgender opponent.
He said that in October, during a match at Half Moon Bay High School, his 17-year-old suffered major injuries and will be out for the entire season.
“My daughter has been involved in volleyball since she was in 4th grade,” the father said.
“She has always been a kid with her eye on the prize. When she first started asking about playing volleyball, she began practicing in the backyard. For hours at a time, she’d hit the ball on the sloped roof. Eventually, she was able to be a Team Captain at her school.”
He claimed that Half Moon Bay High School appeared to have a player that was stronger, bigger and faster than the rest of the girls.
“From a distance, It seemed like a boy dressed in a girl’s volleyball uniform,” the man said. He added that he texted his wife to ask if she knew if Half Moon Bay had a boy playing as a girl. “I asked if she knew that there may be a boy on the [Half Moon Bay] team. She said yes.”
“I told my wife that this was not fair. I felt frustrated that, in an indirect way, I was now supporting someone’s gender confusion,” he continued. “To boot, they were now playing against my daughter and her teammates. I had heard about transgender in sports issues, bathroom gender identification politics, and trans groups reading to kids at school. Now it was directly hitting home.”
He said his daughter went to a hospital after the game and other parents also voiced displeasure with the incident.
“I totally felt alone. Like this was a bad dream. My daughter knew how angry I was. The drive was telling as my daughter asked me not to make it a big deal. But to me, it was already a big deal,” he insisted.
“We ended up taking my daughter to the doctor. They confirmed the concussion, and my kid ended up not being able to play for the remainder of her senior year. She was playing for fun, and this was her final year doing it. She felt robbed. I felt deflated and powerless.”
