Nevada women and families gathered at the state capital building in Carson City on Tuesday to lobby legislators to adopt a decision that would keep trans athletes out of girls’ sports.
Currently, two bills have been proposed to the state legislature to tackle the question, but the majority of the Democrat has not stated that it will allow a hearing on the bills.
Two girls who were at the event and another witness claims that an employee of the democratic assembly member Elaine Marzola’s office curled up and threw letters that lobbies Marzola to support the bill. Marzola has denied the claims.
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A Nevada Middle School girl, 13-year-old daughter Ava Chavez, prepared a letter to hand to assemblies that detailed her experience of competing against a biological man in volleyball last year.
A copy of the letter obtained by Pakinomist Digital showed Ava telling the feelings she felt to compete against the male opponent while asking for legislators to consider adopting one of the bills, SB112.
“When the ball is on the other side of the net, they have a chance to swing and we have a chance to block. This can be dangerous for us because if the blocks can’t block the boy’s hit, I could be dangerously wounded. This scares me because boys are naturally bigger, faster, stronger and have a higher vertical,” the letter readers, later ending with, ”
Chavez told Pakinomist Digital that she saw an employee of Marzola’s office taking her letter and them from other girls and throwing them away in the Recycle Bin.
“When I went in, she took my paper between her fingers and she was like sliding it into the trash,” she said, adding that other girls then went in and left their own letters on Marzola’s desk.
“And when I went out, I thought I heard rattling papers again and I was like” Oh, she just threw our papers again, “she said.
Ava Chavez, along with several other girls at the event, including 17-year-old Nevada-Girl Record Kendall Lewis.
Lewis has also played against a trans athlete in volleyball in high school for the past two seasons, which made her take part in the effort on Tuesday. However, Lewis also claims she saw her letter curled and thrown away.
“When she took them from us, she curled them a little, not quite like a ball, but just kind of threw them away and just ignored them,” Lewis told Pakinomist Digital.
The girls who went to the state of Capitol were led by the former University of Nevada Volleyball Player Sia Liilii, who have lived with the Chavez family in the past year.
Liilii told Pakinomist digital what she witnessed.
“After hearing the rattling papers, I looked back, and Kendall said” she just threw it away, “Liilii said.
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13-year-old Ava Chavez, deployed and Nevada assembly Elaine Marzola. (Ava Chavez / Getty Images)
The allegations were first reported by Las Vegas Review-Journal-Spalician Victor Joecks in a post of X Tuesday.
Marzola made a statement to Pakinomist Digital, which denied the allegations and rejected Joecks’ original report.
“The allegations against my staff and I are an obvious lie committed by an unusual opinion -spokesman who was not even in the legislative building. My staff and I always treat everyone with the utmost respect and dignity. Because I was in meetings all afternoon, I did not interact with Ms. Chavez (Ava’s mother Annie Chavez) or her daughter, so they must be wrong.”
On Wednesday, Joecks released a screenshot of X of an E email that denies the claims from colleague Nevada Democrat Assemblym September Steve Yeager, with a caption.
“In an E -Mail, [Yeager] Claims what Annie Chavez told me is not true, but he gives no evidence of supporting this claim. I let you decide who is more credible: the politically powerful insider or mother who sounded really shocked when she told me what she saw, ”read the caption.
Liilii has also addressed Marzola’s answer and denial.
“She wasn’t on site for what had happened and the fact that she wants to come after the nature of girls just there to give their letters peacefully and give her letters saying why they love sports so much and why they want it to be one-sex room, that’s kind of questionable, especially when she gets decisions about how we get to play our sport,” said Liilii.
“I hope she also looks on the other side and not just comes after our character.”
Marzola has given a follow -up response that addresses the doubt of her denial of Liilii.
“As I said, the claims are not real, and both Mrs. Chavez and Mrs. Liilii are wrong. Neither my staff nor I committed these actions,” the statement reads.
Liilii became a prominent figure in the national struggle to fight trans -clutter in women’s sports last fall as she led her former teammates through a broadly published dispute with their university as to whether to lose a game against San Jose State University and its transperter, Blaire Fleming.
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Nevada Wolf packs women’s volleyball players with Sam Brown and Tulsi Gabbard. (Sam brown -campaign)
The Nevada players approached university administrators privately to express their desire to lose the match and participate in four other programs that refused to play SJSU. But Nevada did not respect this request and instead released a statement Insists it would play the match. Nevada also insisted that its players would be allowed to skip the competition without meeting discipline.
The team eventually lost the day before the match was scheduled to be played because of not having enough players. However, the university has said it had discussions with the players on potential “legal issues” that would emerge if the match was not played.
“University administrators met with the Nevada Volleyball team and discussed scenarios on what could happen if they chose not to play. One of the scenarios that was discussed was about possible legal issues for violating the Nevada Constitution,” read a statement previously only delivered to Pakinomist Digital by University of Nevada, Reno.
The Constitution of Nevada was revised in 2022 when democratic lawmakers voted to adopt the change of equality, which added gender identity to its list of diversity classifications protected under state law. As a result, girls athletes in the state like Chavez and Lewis have had to play against biological men in time since then.
