Outraged Illinois parents descended on a school district board meeting Wednesday to express their anger over a suburban high school recruiting a trans player onto its girls’ volleyball team.
An anonymous parent who spoke with Fox News said that her daughter didn’t make the girls’ volleyball team at Conant High School, but a trans athlete did, prompting her daughter to burst into tears.
“The mother said the trans athlete quit the team the very next day amid the controversy,” according to Fox News.
The girls’ volleyball coach also “quit” and is now just coaching the boys’ team.
But even though the trans athlete is gone, tensions continue to mount.
WTF? There is a dude playing for the Conant High School girls volleyball team. He uses the female locker room, too. This is in Hoffman Estates Illinois, a northwest sluburb of Chicago in an area I grew up in. We can thank trust fund Socialist JB Pritzker for this. pic.twitter.com/g6TtIcPPBH
— Matthew Nichol (@MatthewNichol5) August 18, 2025
Tensions reached a fevered boiling point during a Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board meeting Wednesday night as pro-trans and anti-trans parents literally “squabbled” over the matter.
“Two women were ejected from the meeting by police for squabbling in the audience,” the Chicago Sun-Times has confirmed.
Meanwhile, those parents who were able to resist the temptation to “squabble” instead loudly debated the matter.
“A longtime beloved coach of the girls’ volleyball team quit, and if she is here or watching, I have the utmost respect for you standing firm on your morals and values,” Karen Powers, the mother of a Conant graduate, said during the board meeting.
“It’s not a girl’s responsibility to feel uncomfortable or unsafe for the sake of a boy pretending to be a girl! He should be participating in sports designated for boys because he will always be one! When do the girls in D 2-11 get to feel safe, recognized and protected!?” she added.
Fellow mother and longtime teacher Angela Christman also expressed opposition to the “inclusion” of trans athletes.
“The current policy is trampling on the rights every other girl and her rights to privacy and protected spaces,” she said. “My daughter will not hide in spaces where she was told she would be protected.”
“And she will not be counseled into feeling comfortable taking her clothes off in front of a 6-foot-4 biological male, and frankly it’s criminal that that’s the solution that you offer,” Christman added.
Parents in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, are outraged after a trans-identified male student was given a position on the freshman girls volleyball team at James B. Conant High School.
The boy, who stands 6’4″, was chosen for the team despite never having played volleyball before. pic.twitter.com/c6MSJ6lPCf
— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) August 21, 2025
A third mother, Vickie Wilson, called the district’s trans-friendly policy “egregiously unfair.”
“While many of you may want to prioritize certain kids over others, two things must be said,” she began. “One, that’s clearly wrong and egregiously unfair and creates new issues with the kids you’ve decided are less important. Second, you aren’t even helping the kids you’re thinking you’re prioritizing.”
“Because if you actually cared about these kids, you wouldn’t promote a dangerous ideology that does not get to the root of their problems. It pushes experimental and dangerous interventions that enables greedy people to turn them into lifelong lucrative patients, very often leading to serious regret and higher suicidality,” she added.
On the other side of the aisle were men like Justin O’Rourke of the Community Mental Health Project.
“This is not about safety at all,” he claimed during the meeting. “This is about prejudice and bigotry.
“Since 2012, more than 214,000 high school and college women’s volleyball players have been injured. Almost every one of those injuries involved cisgender peers. So why is no one calling for the cisgender athletes involved in those injuries to be banned from sports?” he continued.
According to Fox News, the last time a similar controversy erupted in the district was in 2015 when a transgender student sued for locker room access and won thanks to help from the Obama administration.
“The district reached a settlement with former President Barack Obama’s Department of Education that ultimately allowed the trans student access to the girls’ locker room,” Fox News notes. “The district faced first-of-its-kind sanctions from the Obama administration for initially barring the trans student from the girls’ locker room.”
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