I get they’ve now canceled all video games in opposition to the workforce within the convention, however how retarded are the dad and mom to let their daughters take the court docket in opposition to a teen boy within the first place?   I’ve a humorous feeling there was A LOT of rumbling about this that by no means obtained reported on and now {that a} lady obtained KTFO’d in a sport it’s unavoidable. 

  https://www.edfirstnc.org/submit/female-hs-volleyball-player-seriously-injured-by-alleged-trans-competitor-in-north-carolina

Sadly, mind damage occurs so much in youngsters sports activities – each amongst girls and boys. I do not see statistics for extreme traumatic mind damage in highschool lady’s volleyball particularly. However, there was a examine of concussion occasions within the smaller pattern of NCAA sports activities. There, lady’s volleyball is outwardly second solely to boy’s soccer in concussion occasions:

Using medical information knowledge from the 17-year interval between 2003 and 2020, Dr. Debellis and colleagues outlined the variety of concussion occasions and time of participation missed as a consequence of concussion damage among the many totally different sport groups

As anticipated, soccer was the game with the best variety of concussion occasions (220 occasions in 167 athletes). Women’s volleyball adopted, with 60 occasions in 24 gamers.

Source: https://www.docwirenews.com/conference-coverage/aaos-2021/study-finds-that-football-and-womens-volleyball-players-have-highest-rates-of-concussion-injuries/

Estimates differ relying on what stage of mind damage one considers, however by one estimate, sports activities are liable for 21% of all mind damage instances in youngsters general. Girls have a few third to half the speed of traumatic mind damage as boys, however that is nonetheless excessive charges. Nationally, there are literally thousands of critical instances requiring hospitalization yearly, and tons of of deaths. This is overwhelmingly inside same-gender groups amongst non-transgender college students going again a long time. Some common statistics:

https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/subject/default?id=sports-injuries-statistics-90-P01650

https://www.forbes.com/websites/brianbushard/2022/07/14/62-million-us-children-suffered-traumatic-brain-injuries-from-sports-equipment-from-2000-to-2019-with-a-higher-increase-among-girls-study-finds/

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All of that is to say, that one case does not present that it’s something greater than the identical type of accident that occurs too usually amongst all same-sex, non-transgender college students. It occurs no matter transgender participation.

I’m not advocating any explicit method to transgender college students in sports activities, simply that specializing in this one case ignores the context of such damage.

As a aspect notice, from studying the information round this, not one of the folks concerned have even mentioned that the scholar in query is transgender. I can not inform the place that declare got here from. Maybe they’re transgender, but it surely is not said.