Nevada schools ban trans athletes from girls sports in major reversal for state

The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) voted connected Tuesday to follow a caller sex eligibility argumentation that bans trans athletes from girls sports. Now, lone biologic females tin vie successful the girls' class successful the state. 

Nevada Lieutenant Gov. Stavros Anthony praised the determination successful a statement. 

"I commend the NIAA for taking this important and courageous step," said Lieutenant Gov. Stavros Anthony. "Today’s ballot sends a wide message: Nevada values and protects opportunities for pistillate athletes. Girls merit a level playing field, and this enactment helps guarantee they tin compete, grow, and win without having to compromise information oregon fairness."

The alteration marks a reversal from the state's erstwhile argumentation that enabled trans athletes to vie successful girls and women's sports, which resulted successful aggregate arguable incidents of it happening successful caller years.

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Exterior presumption of the authorities assembly building. Scenes astir the Nevada State Capitol Building. (Ty O'Neil/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The state's constitution was revised successful 2022, erstwhile Democrat lawmakers voted to follow the Equal Rights Amendment, which added sex individuality to its database of diverseness classifications that are protected nether authorities law. 

The instrumentality prompted a nationally publicized feud betwixt the University of Nevada, Reno and its women's volleyball players successful October. 

The players approached assemblage administrators privately to explicit their tendency to forfeit a lucifer against San Jose State University, which rostered a trans athlete. But the assemblage did not grant that petition and alternatively released a connection insisting it would play the match. Nevada besides insisted its players would beryllium allowed to skip the contention without facing discipline.

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GOP Senate campaigner Sam Brown speaks to Sia Liilii. (Sam Brown Campaign)

The squad yet forfeited the time earlier the lucifer was scheduled to beryllium played, owed to not having capable players. However, the assemblage has said it had discussions with the players astir imaginable "legal issues" that would look if the lucifer were not played. 

"University administrators met with the Nevada volleyball squad and discussed scenarios of what could hap if they chose not to play. One of the scenarios that was discussed revolved astir imaginable ineligible issues for violating the Nevada Constitution," work a connection that was provided exclusively to Fox News Digital by the University of Nevada, Reno. 

The quality betwixt the players escalated into a nationalist contention that adjacent garnered mainstream governmental attraction successful the weeks starring up to November's election. 

Meanwhile, astatine the younker level, a Nevada mediate schoolhouse girl, 13-year-old Ava Chavez, recounted an acquisition of having to look a trans athletes successful a missive she handed to authorities lawmakers past week. 

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Nevada Wolf Pack women's volleyball players with Sam Brown and Tulsi Gabbard. (Sam Brown Campaign)

"When the shot is connected the different broadside of the net, they person a accidental to swing, and we person a accidental to block. This tin beryllium unsafe for america due to the fact that if the blockers can't artifact the boy's hit, I could get dangerously hurt. This scares maine due to the fact that boys are people bigger, faster, stronger and person a higher vertical," a transcript of the missive obtained by Fox News Digital read.

Another girl, 17-year-old Kendall Lewis, has besides experienced having to look a trans volleyball subordinate owed to the state's policies, she antecedently told Fox News Digital successful an interview. 

Now, Nevada joins 26 different states successful the U.S. that forbid trans athletes from competing successful girls sports and is the latest to comply with President Donald Trump's enforcement bid to code the issue.

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