When overreacting to punish a trans athlete makes us the whipping girl for banning volleyball in Cherokee County North Carolina.
A player got a head and neck injury when a trans girl spiked a volleyball so because of that the county school officials banded all volleyball.
All girls' volleyball teams in the Cherokee County school district will forfeit upcoming regular season games against one competitor due to a recent player injury, according to Cherokee County School Board member Arnold Mathews.
Mathews told us in an email on Tuesday that the board determined the varsity and junior varsity teams in the district won't play the Highlands School volleyball team "due to safety concerns," Mathews said.
That decision came after a Hiwassee Dam High School volleyball player got neck and head injuries when a Highlands athlete spiked a ball, which "forcefully struck" the athlete in the head, says Mathews.
Now tell me how do all the other think about the trans player, do you think that she will be treated like a piranha by the other students.
You can watch the video and see for yourself, she did nothing that the other players didn’t do, spike the ball. But the school system singled her out because she is trans.
The website Six Common Volleyball Injuries- and How to Prevent Them! on Active Kid MD says,
1) Concussions
Most of the concussions I encounter are seen in liberos or defensive specialists. They usually occur from direct ball to head impact or collisions with other players or objects (poles, chairs on courtside) when diving for a ball. I have also seen a fair amount of concussions resulting from mismatches on the court, namely defensive players trying to return serves or hits from much stronger and older players.
As research paper Injuries among volleyball players: a comprehensive survey of the literature in the August 2019 of Sport Sciences for Health says, “The methodological quality assessment resulted moderate. The lower limb was the most affected area, followed by the upper limb, trunk, and the head.” and that head and neck injuries account for 6% of all injuries.
The NCAA says concussions account for 4.1%, and face and neck are 2.3% of the injuries.
While head and neck injuries are not that common they do happen and when they happen volleyball games are not canceled for the season, this was done to single out the trans player. If they didn't say anything about her being trans it would have been just another spiked ball injury but because the article said "transgender player" it got blown up out of proportion and became an indictment against us.
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