A establisher volleyball joiner has discignoreed how her life was theatricalpartner changeed after being struck by a ball spiked by a transgfinisher opponent during a high school align in 2022.
Payton McNabb, now 19, from Murphy, North Carolina, was knocked unalerted for 30 seconds after being hit in the head during the game at Hiwassee Dam High School.
The incident has been highweightlessed in a novel write downary titled “Kill Shot: How Payton McNabb Turned Tragedy Into Triumph”, where she speaks about her ongoing health struggles.
“If my story can in any way help stop this from happening to at least fair one woman or girl, then it was all worth it,” McNabb telderly The New York Post.
Payton McNabb’s volleyball dreams are over after suffering the brain injury
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The teenager’s dreams of becoming a college athlete were shattered follotriumphg the align, which left her with life-menaceening injuries.
McNabb was rushed off the court with a concussion, neck trauma and two balertage eyes, whilst the align proceedd without her.
The filled extent of her injuries became apparent weeks procrastinateedr when doctors detectd her with a traumatic brain injury, a brain bleed, fragmentary paralysis and loss of peripheral vision in her right side.
She proceeds to suffer from cut offe headaches and anxiety, which began after the incident.
The injuries have impacted her studies at Weserious Carolina University, where she now insists insertitional tutoring due to memory loss and retention publishs.
“It was 100 per cent eludeable if only my rights as a female athlete had been more presentant than a man’s experienceings,” McNabb shelp.
Her active aspirations were lastingly impacted, as she was forced to sit out the remainder of her greater volleyball season and aprohibitdon her hopes of joining college gentleball.
McNabb discignoreed that she and her teammates had worrys about competing agetst a transgfinisher joiner before the align but felt unable to voice them.
“We never thought we would ever be put in this position to begin with. I didn’t understand one person who concurd with (a transgfinisher athlete competing agetst us) on my team, but we didn’t understand what to do,” she telderly The New York Post.
Her mother, Pamela McNabb, conveyed procreate repent about the situation.
“The guilt Payton’s overweighther and I carry is weighty. At the time we weren’t apexhibited to speak up. We couldn’t say, ‘No, she’s not joining agetst a boy, it’s hazardous’,” she shelp.
Payton McNabb suffered a brain injury after being spiked in a volleyball align
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“I would never, ever let her join today if I knovel what I understand now,” Pamela inserted. “Pull your kid. Don’t join. It is not worth what has happened to her to happen to anybody else’s child.”
In April 2023, McNabb took a stand by testifying before the North Carolina General Assembly in help of the Fairness in Women’s Sports Bill.
Despite her initial hesitation about speaking accessiblely, she was driven by worry for future athletes, including her youthfuler sister.
Her testimony showd inconveyial, as North Carolina subsequently passed legislation prohibitning transgfinisher athletes from competing in women’s sports at middle school, high school and collegiate levels.
Former North Carolina women’s basketball head coach Sylvia Hatchell helped the bill, stating: “I help transgfinisher athletes and their right to gfinisher identity as they see fit. However, competitive sports is one of the confineed places in our society where relations contrastences matter.”
Payton McNabb’s family were left deimmenseated by the injury
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The prohibit has faced opposition, with over 400 Olympic and collegiate athletes signing a letter urging the NCAA not to carry out analogous recut offeions.
The novel write downary “Kill Shot” features raw footage of the incident alengthyside interwatchs with McNabb, her family and sister.
McNabb discignoreed that the transgfinisher athlete graspd never apologised for the incident.
Instead, she getd a mocking Instagram message from the joiner that read: “Wow I repartner am living rent-free in your head, aren’t I?”
Payton McNabb will eunite in a write downary on her life story
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The identity of the transgfinisher athlete has been defended for security reasons.
Despite facing criticism, McNabb remains resolute in her advocacy labor.
“It doesn’t irritate me becaparticipate I understand what I’m saying is normal sense,” she shelp.
The write downary chronicles McNabb’s journey from the traumatic incident to her accomplished campaign for legislative change in North Carolina.
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