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Transgender comedian Stacy Cay sparked backlash on social media Friday after making a joke about former high school volleyball player Payton McNabb’s brain injury.
Cay’s joke made light of the fact that McNabb suffered a concussion, brain hemorrhage and permanent whiplash after being hit in the head by a biological trans athlete during a North Carolina high school game in 2022. Cay called footage of the incident “pretty funny.”
“They never want to show the clip of what happened because it’s actually kind of funny,” Cay said.
“She gets hit in the head, then falls like a child. And I’m like, ‘Oh, she was really like that before.’ I don’t know if there’s a nice way to say this, but she should have worn a helmet. She shouldn’t have been there with normal people.”
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Payton McNabb, left, applauds as Second Lady Usha Vance watches President Donald Trump’s speech during a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington on March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
McNabb provided a statement to PK Press Club Digital in response to Cay’s comments.
“A grown man making fun of a teenage girl’s head injury is not comedy, it is cruelty. My story is not a punchline. It is a warning about what happens when adults ignore reality and girls pay the price. I am suffering from something that has changed my life forever. Your jokes will not silence me; they only prove why this fight matters,” McNabb said.
Cay’s joke sparked backlash from other Save Women’s Sports activists, including Riley Gaines and XX-XY Athletics co-founder Jennifer Sey.
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McNabb’s story became one of the flashpoints in the cultural movement to protect women’s sports from trans athletes and was cited by government officials, including President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.
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McNabb testified before Congress at Ministry of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) “Foul Play: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” Subcommittee Hearing in May.
