Payton McNabb, HS volleyball left severely injured by trans opponent, to be at Trump's speech to Congress

Payton McNabb, a erstwhile precocious schoolhouse girls volleyball subordinate who was severely injured erstwhile a transgender hostile spiked a shot successful her face, volition beryllium 1 of President Donald Trump’s guests astatine his associated code to Congress connected Tuesday night.

McNabb suffered the injury erstwhile she was a inferior astatine Hiwassee Dam High School successful Murphy, North Carolina, and has helped pb the complaint to support women’s and girls’ sports fair. She was 1 of the athletes who attended Trump’s lawsuit erstwhile helium signed the "No Men successful Women’s Sports" enforcement order.

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Payton McNabb was severely injured aft being struck successful the caput and cervix by a spike from a transgender-identifying antheral connected the opposing volleyball team. (Courtesy of Payton McNabb)

She told Fox News connected Monday she was stunned to perceive she received the offer.

"It's conscionable specified an unthinkable honor, and I'm truthful thankful, and I can't judge I'm getting invited. I cognize that President Trump truly supports what we've been warring for and what I've been advocating for for implicit 2 years now," she said. "And he's truly large connected getting men retired of women's sports and retired of their spaces.

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"So, I deliberation this is conscionable his mode of letting america cognize that helium sees america and he's with us, and I'm conscionable truthful thankful for that."

On the play successful question, McNabb said she suffered a concussion, encephalon bleed and imperishable whiplash. Later, she said she dealt with partial paralysis and imaginativeness problems.

McNabb said she did not expect Trump to speech astir her story, but it would beryllium "insane" if helium did.

"I cognize that he's addressing a batch of important things. So, I'm not going to presume anything. But if helium does, past I'm going to beryllium truthful thankful and conscionable really, truly happy."

President Donald Trump signs an enforcement bid barring transgender pistillate athletes from competing successful women's oregon girls' sporting events, successful the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Trump is expected to outline his home and overseas argumentation plans with the Department of Government Efficiency expected to play a large relation successful the speech.

Fox News’ Caroline McKee contributed to this report.

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