The women and families of Nevada joined on Tuesday in the building of the state capital in the city of Carson to press legislators to approve a resolution that would maintain trans athletes out of girls’ sports.
Currently, two bills have been proposed to the state legislature to address the issue, but the Democratic majority has not indicated that it will allow a hearing on the bills.
Two girls who were in the event and another witness claim that a member of the staff of the Office of the Democratic Assembly Elaine Marzola wrinkled and threw letters that pressed Marzola to support the bill. Marzola has denied accusations.
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A Navada high school girl, her 13 -year -old daughter, Ava Chávez, prepared a letter to assembly to detailed her experience having to compete against a biological man in volleyball last year.
A copy of the letter, obtained by Pak Gazette Digital, showed Ava recourse the emotions he felt having to compete against the male opponent, while the legislators begged to consider approveing one of the invoices, SB112.
“When the ball is on the other side of the network, they have the opportunity to balance and we have the opportunity to block. This can be dangerous for us because if the blockers cannot block the boy’s blow, they could hurt me dangerously. This scares me because the children are naturally larger, faster, stronger and have a higher vertical,” readers of the letter, then conclude with, “they support SB112 to protect the girls as me.
Chávez told Pak Gazette Digital that he saw a member of the Marzola office staff take his letter, and those of other girls, and throw them away.
“When I entered, she took my role between her fingers and it was like sliding it into the garbage boat,” he said, adding that other girls entered and left their own cards on Marzola’s desk.
“And then, when I left, I thought I listened again to whisper, and I thought ‘Oh, she simply released our papers,” he said.
Ava Chávez joined several other girls in the event, including the Nevada Nevada athlete, Kendall Lewis, 17, Kendall Lewis.
Lewis has also played against a trans athlete in high school volleyball in the last two seasons, which led her to join the effort on Tuesday. However, Lewis also claims that he saw his wrinkled and lying letter.
“While he took them out, he wrinkled them a little, not completely like in a ball, but threw them and ignored them,” Lewis told Pak Gazette Digital.
The girls who went to the State Capitol were led by the former volleyball player from the University of Nevada, Sia Liilii, who has been living with the Chávez family during the last year.
Liilii told Pak Gazette Digital what she witnessed.
“After listening to whispering’s documents, I looked back and Kendall said ‘Simply threw it,” said Liilii.
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Ava Chávez, 13, and the Nevada Assembly, Elaine Marzola. (Ava Chávez / Getty Images)
The accusations were first reported by the Review-Journal columnist of Las Vegas, Victor Joecks, in an X post on Tuesday.
Marzola provided a statement to FOX News Digital denying the accusations and dismissing the initial Jocks report.
“The accusations against my staff and I are a shameless lie perpetrated by an insertious opinion columnist who was not even in the legislative building. My staff and I always treat everyone with the greatest respect and dignity. Because I was in the meetings all afternoon, I did not interact with Mrs. Chávez (Mother Annie Chavez of Ava) or her daughter, so they must be confused.”
On Wednesday, Joecks published a screenshot in X from an email that denied the accusations of the fellow Democratic Assembly of Nevada Steve Yeager, with a title.
“In an email, [Yeager] He affirms what Annie Chávez told me is not true, but does not provide evidence to support that statement. I will let you decide who is more credible: the internal person or political mother who sounded genuinely surprised when he told me what he saw, “said the title.
Liilii has also addressed Marzola’s answer and denial.
“She was not in the place of what had happened and the fact that she wants to come after the character of the girls who were there to give her letters peacefully and give her letters saying why they love sports so much and why they want them to be spaces of a single sex, it is a bit questionable, especially since it comes to make decisions for how to practice their sports,” said Liilii.
“I hope she also looks on the other side and not only goes after our character.”
Marzola has provided a follow -up response that addresses the doubt of his denial by Liilii.
“As I said, the accusations are not true and both Mrs. Chávez and Mrs. Liilii are wrong. Neither my staff nor I committed these actions,” said the statement.
Liilii became an outstanding figure in the national struggle to combat trans inclusion in women’s sports last fall, when he took his former teammates through a widely publicized dispute with his university about whether to lose a game against the State University of San José and his Trans Player, Blaire Fleming.
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Nevada Wolf Pack Players of female volleyball with Sam Brown and Tulsi Gabbard. (Sam Brown campaign)
Nevada players approached the university administrators in private to express their desire to lose the game and join four other programs that refused to play SJSU. But Nevada did not honor that request and instead He issued a statement Insist that he would play the game. Nevada also insisted that their players would be allowed to jump the contest without facing the discipline.
The team finally lost the day before the game was played, because it did not have enough players. However, the University has said that it had discussions with players about possible “legal problems” that would arise if the game was not played.
“The university administrators met with the Nevada volleyball team and discussed scenarios of what could happen if they decided not to play. One of the scenarios that was discussed revolved around possible legal problems to violate the Constitution of Nevada,” said a statement that was previously provided exclusively to Pak Gazette Digital by the University of Nevada, Reno.
The Nevada Constitution was reviewed in 2022, when democratic legislators voted to adopt the amendment for equal rights, which added gender identity to their list of diversity classifications that are protected by state law. As a result, female athletes in the state such as Chávez and Lewis have had to play against biological men in time since then.
