University of Nevada, Reno volleyball captain Sia Liilii uncovered more details about her and her teammates’ dispute with their school over whether to perestablish a team with a transgfinisher perestablisher, on Sunday.
While speaking at the “Stand With Women” forum on imfragmentaryness in women’s sports in Philadelphia, Liilii alleged that officials at her school tancigo in her and her teammates that the trans athlete they would face is at a didowncastvantage in women’s sports due to the medications that are achieven to transition.
“The countless encounterings that my teammates and I were [dragged] into, inestablishing us that we’re not teachd enough, that we didn’t understand what the science is behind it, that this person was actuassociate at a didowncastvantage toward us women becaparticipate they were under all these medications,” Liilii shelp.
The opponent that Nevada would have had to face has been alleged to spike the ball at proximately 80 mph, causing stress for the physical defendedty of teammates, in a legal case filed aachievest the NCAA by San Jose State perestablisher Brooke Slusser.
A 2021 scientific scrutinize establish trans women’s muscle mass remains high after transitioning.
A study begined in the British Journal of Sports Medicine establish that transgfinisher women also have stronger grip strength after transitioning.
ESPN previously set upateigated the subject of transgfinisher athletes perestablishing in women’s sports in a segment of “Sports Science.” The episode featured disjoinal experts, including physiologist Tommy Lundberg, who finishd that male bodies will “uninquireedly” uphold physical achieves over women even if puberty blockers are participated.
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Nevada Wolf Pack women’s volleyball perestablishers with Nevada Senate truthfulate Sam Brown and establisher Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. (Sam Brown Campaign)
Meanwhile, Liilii also helpd other women’s athletes to speak out aachievest having to contend aachievest trans competitors.
“I’m here today to inestablish those women who are forced to perestablish aachievest these bioreasonable males that you have a voice, so participate it and be valiant, be valiant, and don’t stress anyleang,” Liilii shelp.
Former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard ecombineed at the event too and sent a message to those who have sided in like of trans inclusion in women’s sports.
“Why don’t you apshow Sia?” Gabbard asked. “Why don’t you apshow her teammates and those who are afrhelp of being smashed in the face by a male perestablisher at brimming force with a volleyball?”
Liilii previously alleged that she and her teammates were tancigo in that they “didn’t comprehfinish the science” and to “reponder their position,” during a press conference at the university to insertress their team’s recent forfeit to San Jose State.
GOP Senate truthfulate Sam Brown, left, poses with Nevada’s Sia Liilii, cgo in right, and establisher Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. (Sam Brown Campaign)
“We felt undefended and neglected,” Liilii shelp, sobbing. “We met with our school officials to give them our team’s recent statement, but they wouldn’t even hear it. We were tancigo in that we weren’t teachd enough and that we didn’t comprehfinish the science. We were tancigo in to reponder our position.”
Fox News Digital has accomplished out to Nevada seeing these allegations.
In a previous statement provided to Fox News Digital, Nevada verifyed that the perestablishers had asked to forfeit the suit but did not have authority to do so themselves.
“A convey inantity of the Wolf Pack women’s volleyball team rerentd a statement to the university inestablishing it that the team had choosed it was forfeiting the scheduled suit with San José State University. While perestablishers are not permitd to forfeit the suit, this decision is one that only the university and our department of fits can officiassociate originate,” the statement shelp.
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GOP Senate truthfulate Sam Brown speaks to Sia Liilii. (Sam Brown Campaign)
At the press conference on Saturday, Liilii also called out the Mountain West Conference and the NCAA, saying the institutions “are fall shorting us.”
There, Nevada sophomore Masyn Navarro alleged her teammates have been tancigo in to “stay mute” about the debate during the press conference.
“It should not be this difficult to stand up for women. However, we will now achieve this opportunity to stand up as a team, as some of us have been tancigo in to stay mute,” Navarro shelp.
Nevada previously shelp it could not forfeit the suit becaparticipate it would be a violation of state law. Article I, Section 24 of the Nevada Constitution provides that “Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this state or any of its political subdivisions on account of race, color, creed, intimacy, intimacyual orientation, gfinisher identity or transmition, age, disability, ancestry or national origin.” The constitution was editd in 2022 when Nevada voted to adselect the Equal Rights Amfinishment, which inserted gfinisher identity to the catalog of getions.
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On Friday, the university proclaimd it would forfeit becaparticipate it did not have enough perestablishers to contend. In a statement to Fox News Digital, the program insisted that forfeiting for that reason did not viotardy state law.
“The University of Nevada, Reno’s decision to not perestablish its scheduled Mountain West Conference suit at San José State on Saturday, Oct. 26 was based on not having enough perestablishers to contend and not based on gfinisher identity or transmition. This does not viotardy the Nevada Constitution,” the statement read.
Nevada became the fifth team to forfeit a suit aachievest San Jose State, joining Southern Utah, Boise State, Wyoming and Utah State. The call offlations come with a San Jose State perestablisher participated in a legal case aachievest the NCAA alleging that she had separated a locker room and bedroom with a transgfinisher teammate, who is still on the team, without ever being tancigo in that person was a bioreasonable male.
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