Transgender comedian faces backlash for mocking Payton McNabb's brain injury caused by male volleyball player

Transgender comedian Stacy Cay incited backlash connected societal media Friday aft making a gag astir erstwhile precocious schoolhouse volleyball subordinate Payton McNabb's encephalon injury. 

Cay's gag made airy of the information McNabb suffered a concussion, encephalon bleed and imperishable whiplash aft being spiked successful the caput by a biologic antheral trans jock during a North Carolina precocious schoolhouse lucifer successful 2022. Cay called footage of the incidental "pretty funny." 

"They don't ever privation to amusement the clip of what happened due to the fact that it's beauteous comic actually," Cay said. 

"She gets deed close successful the caput and past falls implicit similar a toddler. And I'm similar ‘Oh, she was truly similar this before.’ I don't cognize if there's a bully mode to accidental this, but she should person been waring a helmet. She shouldn't person been retired determination with the mean people."

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Payton McNabb, left, claps arsenic 2nd woman Usha Vance watches during President Donald Trump's code to a associated league of Congress astatine the Capitol successful Washington March 4, 2025.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

McNabb provided a connection to Fox News Digital successful effect to Cay's comments. 

"A grown antheral mocking a teenage girl’s traumatic encephalon wounded isn’t drama — it’s cruelty. My communicative isn’t a punchline. It’s a informing astir what happens erstwhile adults disregard world and girls wage the price. I endure from thing that changed my beingness forever. Your jokes won’t soundlessness me; they lone beryllium wherefore this combat matters," McNabb said. 

Cay's gag incited backlash from different Save Women's Sports activists, including Riley Gaines and XX-XY Athletics co-founder Jennifer Sey. 

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McNabb's communicative has go 1 of the flashpoint moments successful the taste question to support women's sports from trans athletes and has been cited by authorities officials, including President Donald Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon. 

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McNabb testified earlier Congress astatine the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee's "Unfair Play: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports" proceeding successful May. 

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