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President Donald Trump invited Payton McNabb to his recent address to Congress as a guest. She’s an advocate for protecting women’s safety and privacy.
McNabb played volleyball in high school. An opposing team allowed a man with a fetish for pretending to be a female to play on the team. He spiked a ball in McNabb’s face in 2022. She suffered brain damage and partial paralysis. McNabb said that the male and his female teammates laughed at her.
Last year, McNabb was standing in line for the women’s restroom at Western Carolina University, where she attends. She saw a man in a dress while line and decided to confront him once inside. She said she didn’t want to just smile and let it go, not after what she suffered. McNabb filmed and posted online her confrontation with the 27-year-old man.
McNabb was polite as she asked him why he was in the women’s restroom and said that she felt vulnerable with him there. The man complained to the school that McNabb violated his civil rights, which triggered an investigation. McNabb filed a complaint of her own, which the school threw out.
A warrior for women, @paytonmcnabb_ shares the heartbreaking story that led her to losing her athletic career and suffering permanent injuries at the hands of a male athlete. pic.twitter.com/6xvSj2gbHH
— Independent Women’s Forum (@IWF) March 13, 2025
This triggered a Title IX case with an outside investigator, who McNabb said was biased against her. McNabb said people tried to doxx her, and they definitely harassed. Her sorority kicked her out. Her sisters did not stand by her.
Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) announced that the investigator found in McNabb’s favor. From IWF:
Despite these concerns, [lawyer Ellis] Boyle believes WCU gave McNabb a fair trial by allowing her to present a “very calm and matter of fact testimony” in which she clarified her First Amendment rights to post the clip on X and laid out her sex-based right to a women’s-only restroom under Title IX.
Thank goodness some reason prevailed. The school said that because McNabb was polite and “stood her ground, and not in a severe or objectively offensive way,” she had not sexually harassed the man in drag using the women’s restroom.
We take our victories where we find them, and as McNabb’s lawyer said, her victory helps make it easier for other women to stand up for themselves.
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