The women and families of Nevada gathered on Tuesday in the state capital building in Carson City to put pressure on the legislators to adopt a resolution that would prevent trans sports athletes from girls.
Currently, two bills have been proposed to the state legislature to resolve the issue, but the Democratic majority did not indicate that it would authorize an audience on bills.
Two girls who were at the event and another witness alleys that a member of the staff of the Democratic Assembly Elaine Marzola office collapsed and threw letters on Marzola to support the bill. Marzola denied allegations.
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A girl from Nevada, a 13 -year -old girl, Ava Chavez, prepared a letter in hand for the assemblies detailing her experience in confronting a biological man in volleyball last year.
A copy of the letter, obtained by PK Press Club Digital, has shown that said that the emotions he considered to have to compete with the male opponent, while arguing that the legislators plan to adopt 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. It can be dangerous for us because if the blockers cannot block the boy’s blow, I could be dangerously injured.
Chavez told PK Press Club Digital that she had seen Marzola office staff take her letter and those of other girls, and throw them in the trash.
“When I entered, she took my paper between her fingers and she was like sliding it in the trash,” she said, adding that other girls then entered and left their own letters on Marzola’s desk.
“And then when I went out, I thought I heard rustling papers, and I said to myself” Oh she just threw our papers “,” she said.
Ava Chavez was joined by several other girls at the event, including the 17 -year -old athlete of the girls from Nevada, Kendall Lewis.
Lewis also played against a trans athlete in high school volleyball in the past two seasons, which has invented him to join the effort on Tuesday. However, Lewis also alleges that she saw his letter crumpled and thrown away.
“As she took them to us, she sort of crumpled them a little, not completely as in a bullet, but he sort of throwing them and simply ignored them,” Lewis told PK Press Club Digital.
The girls who went to the State Capitol were led by the former volleyball player of the University of Nevada, Sia Liilii, who lives with the Chavez family in last year.
Liilii told PK Press Club Digital what she witnessed.
“After hearing the rustling papers, I looked back and Kendall said” she just threw him “,” said Liilii.
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Ava Chavez, 13, supervised and assembly of Nevada Elaine Marzola. (Images Ava Chavez / Getty)
The allegations were reported for the first time by the columnist of Las Vegas Review-Journal Victor Joecks in a post on X Tuesday.
Marzola made a statement to PK Press Club Digital denying the allegations and rejecting the initial report of Joecks.
“The allegations against my staff and I am a blatant lie perpetrated by an unwanted opinion columnist who was not even in the legislative building. My staff and I always deal with everyone with the greatest respect and dignity. Because I was in meetings all afternoon, I did not interact with Ms. Chavez (the mother of Ava Annie Chaveez) or his daughter, the declaration.
On Wednesday, Joecks published a screenshot on X of an email refusing the allegations of the member of the Democratic Assembly of Nevada, Steve Yeager, with a legend.
“In an email, [Yeager] Affirms what Annie Chavez told me is not true, but he does not provide any evidence to support this assertion. I let you decide who is more credible: the initiate or powerful political mom who looked really shocked when she told me what she had seen, “read the legend.
Liilii also discussed the response and the denial of Marzola.
“She was not on the site of what had happened and the fact that she wants to come after the character of the girls who were right there to give their letters peacefully and give her letters by saying why they like sport so much and why they want it to be unique spaces, it is a little questionable, especially since it can make decisions about the way we can play our sports,” said Liilii.
“I hope she also looks on the other side and does not only come after our character.”
Marzola provided a follow -up response on the doubt of his denial by Liilii.
“As I said, the allegations are not true and Mrs. Chavez and Ms. Liilii are not mistaken. Neither my staff nor I have committed these actions,” said the press release.
Liilii became a leading figure in the national fight to combat transndance in female sports last fall, when she led her former teammates through a largely publicized dispute with their university to give up a match against the San Jose State University and his Trans player, balad Fleming.
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The female volleyball players from Nevada Wolf Pack with Sam Brown and Tulsi Gabbard. (Sam Brown campaign)
Nevada players approached university administrators in private to express their desire to lose the match and join four other programs that refused to play SJSU. But Nevada has not honored this request and instead published a declaration Insist the fact that it would play the match. Nevada also insisted that its players would be allowed to jump the competition without dealing with the discipline.
The team finally lost the day before the match to be played, due to not having enough players. However, the University said it had discussions with the potential “legal problems” that would emerge if the match was not played.
“The university administrators met the Nevada volleyball team and discussed the scenarios of what could happen if they chose not to play. One of the scenarios that was discussed revolved around any legal problems for violation of the Nevada Constitution,” read a statement that had already been provided exclusively to PK Press Club Digital by the University of Nevada, Reno.
The constitution of Nevada was revised in 2022, when democratic legislators voted to adopt the equal rights amendment, which added gender identity to its list of diversity classifications which are protected by state law. Consequently, the girls’ athletes of the state like Chavez and Lewis have had to play against biological men since then.
