Hello, and thank you for joining us for a special edition of the world and everything in it.

I'm Mary Reichard. I'm joined today by Peyton McNabb. She's a young woman from North Carolina who's

become a national figure since 2022. That's when she was hit by a volleyball spiked by a male playing on the opposition's girls team.

She was knocked unconscious and suffered multiple injuries, including partial paralysis and a brain bleed.

She's now an ambassador for independent women, an organization focused on public policy for women.

Peyton joins us now to talk about her story

and why she wants to make sure other girls and women

don't endure the same indignity.

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world watch.news. Well, Peyton, you went through the horrors of the physical dangers of men

in women's sports, but there is a mental side to it as well. Describe for us the mental effects

of knowing you're going up against a male.

I was terrified. I tried to play it cool because I, you know, I have younger girls looking up to me

and we need to just finish the game. Like, I don't even care about the score. We just have to, like,

get it over with. And I was scared because I didn't want to get hurt and I didn't want them to hit me or whatever. And in the end, I feel like it was better that it happened to me rather than like a little freshman girl or my cousins on the team. Like if it would have happened to them, I don't know what I would have done. Like I would have been so much more mad. And I felt like this is not real. How is this happening to me? How is this allowed? There was a point in my life where I didn't think this would ever be allowed that a guy could be on the other side of the court. And I never thought that the adults would allow that to happen. Like the people that have been elected to protect me are simply looking away because they don't want to get an uncomfortable conversation.

And they're putting me at risk because they don't want to hurt this guy's feelings.

Like, how is that real?

Exactly.

Now, you were in three different sports in high school, right?

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