Nevada Interscholastic Activity Association (NIAA) voted on Tuesday to adopt a new gender eligibility policy banning trans athletes from girls sports. Now only biological women can compete in the category girls in the state.
Nevada -Lieutenant -Government Manager Stavros Anthony praised the decision in a statement.
“I praise Niaa for taking this important and brave step,” said Lieutenant Government Manager Stavros Anthony. “Today’s vote sends a clear message: Nevada values and protects the possibilities of female athletes. Girls deserve equal terms and this action helps ensure that they can compete, grow and succeed without having to compromise with certainty or justice.”
The change marks a reversal from the state’s previous policy that allowed Trans to compete in girls and women’s sports, resulting in several controversial events of what happened in recent years.
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Exterior view of the State Assembly building. Scenes around Nevada State Capitol Building. (Ty O’Neil/SOPA photos/lightrocket via Getty Images)
The State Constitution was revised in 2022 when democratic lawmakers voted to adopt the change of equality, adding gender identity to its list of diversity classifications protected under state law.
The law led to a nationally published feud between the University of Nevada, Reno and its female volleyball players in October.
The players approached university administrators privately to express their desire to lose a match against San Jose State University, who played a trans athlete. But the university 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.
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GOP -Senat’s candidate Sam Brown speaks to Sia Liilii. (Sam brown -campaign)
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 discussed was about possible legal issues for violating the Nevada Constitution,” read a statement made exclusively to Pakinomist Digital by University of Nevada, Reno.
The battle between the players escalated into a national controversy that even received mainstream political attention in the weeks leading up to the November election.
Meanwhile at youth level, a Nevada Middle School girl, 13-year-old Ava Chavez, told an experience of meeting a trans athletes in a letter she handed over to state lawmakers last week.
Nevada Wolf packs women’s volleyball players with Sam Brown and Tulsi Gabbard. (Sam brown -campaign)
“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 hurt. This scares me because boys are naturally bigger, faster, stronger and have a higher vertical,” a copy of the letter obtained by Pakinomist Digital Read.
Another girl, 17-year-old Kendall Lewis, has also experienced having to meet a trans volleyball player because of the state’s policies, she previously told Pakinomist Digital in an interview.
Now Nevada joins 26 other states in the United States that prohibit trans athletes from competing in girls sports and is the latest to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to tackle the problem.
