In the same way that Riley Gaines did, one college volleyball player is refusing to let the sports business fail female athletes because biological males are invading their space.
Asman, a guest on “Varney & Co.” on Monday, said, “There’s a lot of money in sports, and these coaches, their jobs depend on them winning.”
“So, if the NCAA doesn’t say that the person who wins the female scholarship has to be a woman, they’ll go out and recruit whoever wins.” They’ll have to go out and hire men now, which is a shame because men have biological advantages.
The NCAA athlete is worried because The University of Washington, a Division 1 school, is said to have given a women’s volleyball grant to Tate Drageset, who is 17 years old and transgender.
In a heated X post last Wednesday, Riley Gaines, who has spoken out against letting biological males play women’s sports, said that Drageset was “stealing the already few opportunities for women at the collegiate level.”
According to LGBTQ+ news site LGBTQ+ Nation, the university took back the grant because of backlash.
Like Gaines, Petty is worried about what she sees as opportunities being stolen. She also worries about a lot of other things, like the risk of physical harm for young women competing against guys who are biologically better than them.
On the Monday show, Asman talked about a case in California where a transgender athlete hit a female athlete with a ball and the victim sustained long-term injuries.
“It breaks my heart.” He responded, “We’re seeing it from coast to coast.” “We saw something very much like this in North Carolina last year.” When you put guys on the court with women athletes, this happens, which doesn’t happen very often in volleyball.
Petty said she had never seen a biological guy hurt a female athlete, but she had to play against one.
“Thankfully, no injuries occurred, but it was in front of college scouts and so our scholarships were at risk,” she said.
Petty said that the NCAA should “make it clear that girls’ sports are for girls only.”
Many sports and groups have been in the news recently because of issues like hers.
For example, Connecticut track runner Selina Soule sued the state over its “unfair” transgender sports policy, saying that women are being “robbed.”
Alliance Defending Freedom says that the case that Soule and three other female athletes brought to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit was brought back.
After she tied with transgender runner Lia Thomas in the 2022 NCAA Championships, Riley Gaines had to deal with her own problems. Thomas switched teams and now swims for the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s team after three years on the men’s team.
