Father says teen daughter suffered a concussion from transgender volleyball player that knocked her out entire season



A female high school volleyball player suffered a concussion that knocked her out of the entire season after playing against a transgender opponent, according to the girl's father.

A father in California detailed the ordeal, which left him feeling "powerless" and his daughter feeling robbed. The father requested not to have his identity revealed for fear of facing repercussions for speaking out against the transgender volleyball player. For the article in Reduxx, the father went by the name of "Luis."

Luis prefaced the story by explaining how his 17-year-old daughter has had a passion for volleyball.

“My daughter has been involved in volleyball since she was in 4th grade,” Luis explained. “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.”

The daughter's team was playing against the Half Moon Bay High School team in October. He noticed something peculiar about one of the opposing players.

“From a distance, it seemed like a boy dressed in a girl’s volleyball uniform,” Luis said.

He texted his wife, “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," Luis 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.”

Luis was speaking to a fellow parent during the game when suddenly the game stopped, and he saw his daughter being led out of the gym while holding her head.

“[The other parent] turned to me and said, ‘Did you see that? She was hit by that boy?’ I had missed the actual hit, but felt the weight of everyone staring at me, including the opposing team,” he recalled.

The daughter was suffering from blurry vision and head pain.

He said a few parents "voiced their displeasure with the incident" after the game.

"With all of the cancel culture crap, I was walking on eggshells, not wanting to add more fuel to this fire,” Luis added. “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.”

Luis took his teen daughter to a doctor — who confirmed that she had suffered a concussion from the spike by the biological male. After being diagnosed with a concussion, the daughter was ruled out for the remainder of her senior year.

“She felt robbed. I felt deflated and powerless,” he said.

Luis met with school district administrators, but they claimed that nothing could prevent males from playing in girls' sports.

Luis asked, “If I say something out loud, will my kid be ostracized at school? If I don’t say anything, will I be silently accepting boys playing against girls at schools? Are there parents that would shame me and my family for saying anything? Don’t get me wrong, I have empathy for the boy. I don’t know what it feels like for someone to be born male and not identify with that. Life must be difficult.”

“But at what point does someone’s gender dysphoria cross the empathy boundary? In my case, when my daughter was injured,” he stated.

Reduxx reported that the transgender player is Aaron Lester.

Lester dominated the October volleyball game, notching nearly a third of the team's kills and powering Half Moon Bay High School to a commanding victory.

Lester purportedly began wearing feminine clothing at nine years old.

Lester's father told the Half Moon Bay Review in 2017, “[His] mom and I had a talk with him. We said, ‘We’re totally fine with that, but there might be some people who don’t understand. You might get a hard time from some people and you should be prepared for that.’”

Luis noted that his daughter is fine, but he pointed out, “I feel like my daughter would not have injured had Half Moon Bay not allowed a male to play with the girls.”

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Lia Thomas responds to doctors who say Thomas has an unfair advantage over biologically female swimmers



Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas said that she didn't transition to have an advantage over biologically female swimmers — she wanted to "be her authentic self" and even wants to compete in the Olympics.

Thomas' remarks come as two physicians told the New York Times that they believe the NCAA swimmer has a leg up on her competition due to having been born male.

What are the details?

Thomas told "Good Morning America" on Tuesday that she doesn't feel that she needs "anybody's permission to be myself" and criticized those who champion transgender rights except for in the circumstance of women's sports.

"You can't go halfway and be like 'I support trans people but only to a certain point,'" she said. "If you support trans women and they've met all the NCAA requirements, I don't know if you can say something like that. ... Trans women are not a threat to women's sports."

She later added, "Trans people don't transition for athletics. We transition to be happy and authentic and to be ourselves. ... Transition to get an advantage is not something that factors into our decisions."

Thomas later noted, "It's been a goal of mine to swim at Olympic trials for a very long time. I would love to see that through."

What else?

Last week, Michael Joyner and sports physiologist Ross Tucker told the Times that Thomas' biological makeup presents her with an unfair advantage over biologically female swimmers even though she took hormone-suppressing drugs for the NCAA-required amount of time.

Joyner told the outlet that while girls typically grow faster when compared to boys, boys quickly surpass their female counterparts when puberty comes into play.

"You see the divergence immediately as the testosterone surges into the boys," Joyner explained. "There are dramatic differences in performances.”

He added that while "social aspects to sport" exist, physiology and biology "underpin it."

"Testosterone is the 800-pound gorilla," he added.

Tucker noted, "Lia Thomas is the manifestation of the scientific evidence. The reduction in testosterone did not remove her biological advantage.

USA Today deletes 'hurtful language' from op-ed by female HS sprinter angry she's lost to biological males. What apparently was so 'hurtful'? She called them 'males.'



USA Today is feeling the backlash after deleting what it termed "hurtful language" from an op-ed by a female high school sprinter upset that's she's been forced to race against — and has lost to — biological males who identify as female. In short, transgender females.

And what apparently was so "hurtful"?

Whatever else she may have written, Chelsea Mitchell referred to her aforementioned opponents as "male" or "males" — and USA Today later cut those references from her piece.

See, in WokeWorld, that's known as "misgendering" — and it's a no-no.

What are the details?

Townhall said Mitchell's USA Today op-ed first ran over the weekend — but by Tuesday the paper added an editor's note at the top: "This column has been updated to reflect USA TODAY's standards and style guidelines. We regret that hurtful language was used."

Alliance Defending Freedom — which is representing Mitchell and other female Connecticut track athletes in a lawsuit over having to compete against transgender females — stated that USA Today editors "without notice to Chelsea, changed the word 'male' to 'transgender' throughout her piece."

Indeed, the Internet Archive reveals that the May 23 version of Mitchell's USA Today op-ed contains 11 references to "male" and "males" — but they all were either deleted outright or replaced with the word "transgender" in the piece's present form.

Here's one example from Mitchell's original piece: "Instead, all I can think about is how all my training, everything I've done to maximize my performance, might not be enough, simply because there's a runner on the line with an enormous physical advantage: a male body."

Catch those last three words? Well, they're gone now.

The new sentence uses the word "transgender" before "runner" — and the words "a male body" have vanished: "Instead, all I can think about is how all my training, everything I've done to maximize my performance, might not be enough, simply because there's a transgender runner on the line with an enormous physical advantage."

What's been the reaction?

As you might expect, folks got angry at USA Today. Christiana Holcomb of ADF certainly gave the paper what for:

What was the "hurtful language" that editors deleted from Chelsea's opinion piece three days after publication? The word "male." 2/3

— Christiana Holcomb (@ChristianaADF) 1622051367.0

Author Abigail Shrier — who knows something about the subject (and getting deleted for her views) — weighed in as well:

Outrageous. @usatoday changed Mitchell's words, post-publication, on the grounds that the word "male" is hurtful.… https://t.co/NGC4pG7cqX

— Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) 1622082224.0

This is the second incident I've heard of where leftist propaganda outlets such as USA Today have altered words pos… https://t.co/vAKPlirBed

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) 1622080933.0

Absolutely incredible. You literally can't make an argument in corporate media with conceding to the terms set by t… https://t.co/on7IsOk7MG

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) 1622080384.0

And U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) was only too happy to crack that quip:

Hey @USATODAY, since you’ve decided to be a propoganda arm for the woke mob and silence a young female athlete, may… https://t.co/u3s8GQgvdw

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) 1622133846.0

Anything else?

The below video is one example of what Mitchell and other female athletes have been up against. It's from the 2018 Connecticut girls' 100-meter dash. Mitchell is the third runner from the left. The runners to her left and right — Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood — are transgender females.

The results? Mitchell came in fourth. Miller and Yearwood came in first and second, respectively. In fact, Miller set a meet record that day. But had Miller and Yearwood not been allowed to race against biological females, one might conclude that Mitchell would have finished higher that fourth.

Terry Miller of Bulkeley wins the 100m girls dash i. 11.72 (meet record). Andraya Yearwood of Cromwell 2nd, RHAM’s… https://t.co/ivpGzIFM5v

— GameTimeCT (@GameTimeCT) 1528145089.0

In an attempt at inclusivity, Tampax tweets that men get periods, too — and it backfires spectacularly



Tampon manufacturer Tampax has insisted that men can get periods, too, sparking a firestorm on social media for being anti-woman and more.

What are the details?

As reported by the New York Post, tampon brand Tampax — which is owned by Proctor & Gamble — tweeted in September, "Not all people with periods are women."

Though the company tweeted the message last month, it's now gaining traction across the internet, sparking heavy criticism from those who believe in science.

Tampax tagged the tweet #mythbusting, #periodtruths, and #transisbeautiful.

The tweet reads, "Fact: Not all women have periods. Also a fact: Not all people with periods are women. Let's celebrate the diversity of all people who bleed!"

At the time of this reporting, the tweet received more than 27,000 comments.

Fact: Not all women have periods. Also a fact: Not all people with periods are women. Let's celebrate the diversity… https://t.co/XkLQdrjGwY
— Tampax (@Tampax)1600198276.0

What was the response?

Despite hordes of social media users rallying around the company with praise for such an inclusive campaign, many people railed against the notion and argued that the company is alienating women and ignoring science.

Conservative author and commentator Ben Shapiro wrote, "Fact: all people with periods are women."

Fact: all people with periods are women https://t.co/cAd48HwIh1
— Ben Shapiro (@Ben Shapiro)1603629247.0

Former Major League Baseball player Curt Schilling added, "Every single person that has have had a cycle is scientifically and genetically a woman. That's not offensive, it's not meant to be offensive, it's just a scientific fact. Facts can't be offensive but YOU can be offended by them when they don't follow your narrative."

@Tampax @gobeeharris Every single person that has have had a cycle is scientifically and genetically a woman. That'… https://t.co/82tmdMQc3M
— Curt Schilling (@Curt Schilling)1603573401.0

Another social media user added, "Sigh...so tired of companies disrespecting their main target audience & gaslighting the public for virtue signaling points."

"I honestly don't understand how some companies sound identical to parody or satire," another user wrote.

One woman who identified herself as a mother chimed in, "Oh dear @Tampax your products are more expensive but I have been buying them for decades. Not any more. Anyone who calls me and my daughter "people who bleed" isn't getting a penny more of my money."

One user seemed to encourage a boycott of the company, and wrote, "Tampax is owned by P&G. You can also boycott their other products: Always®, Ambi Pur®, Ariel®, Bounty®, Charmin®, Crest®, Dawn®, Downy®, Fairy®, Febreze®, Gain®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Lenor®, Olay®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, SK-II®, Tide®, Vicks®, and Whisper®."

"Dear Tampax, are there instructions on the box for men who want to insert a tampon up their penises? As an attorney who has successfully litigated product liability cases, I would be very interested in your answer, in writing of course," added another user who identified himself as an attorney.