Mary Kopf
Appearances
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yes, so I have been playing volleyball for seven years, and I've been playing for six years for my district. And this year, it was my senior season. I was very excited. And... Again, during the summer, we had something called open gyms, which is just practices for our coach just to get us warmed up a little bit for tryouts.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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This year, my coach had told me specifically that she wanted me to play more this year and that she wanted to get me in more during the game. She also expressed to me that we have our set 12. So if you don't know volleyball, volleyball usually you have anywhere from like 12 to 14 girls on a team. And she said, we have our set 12 girls.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
But then on the first day of tryouts, I walk in and there's somebody else trying out. So obviously I wanted to introduce myself because I didn't want to be rude. And just from talking to this individual, I could just tell that it was not a female. Obviously at that moment, I was infuriated.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
I was confused because we were not told the district administration or coach failed to disclose this information to us. So after when we figured out that this individual was definitely going to be on the volleyball team, a bunch of the parents, they were infuriated. I was infuriated. A bunch of the girls on my team were infuriated. So we went and we went to the board meeting.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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My mother, a lot of the other parents on the team, they expressed their worries and concerns to the board because this is just not right. This is a girls volleyball team. which only girls should be playing. It's unfair that they allowed a male to be on our volleyball team.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I spoke at the board meeting and a lot of the girls were afraid to speak at the board meeting and even didn't even want to stand next to me while speaking at the board meeting because our coach sat us down that morning at practice and said, if we speak badly about anybody else on our team, then she's going to have to have a conversation with us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And then if she has to have a second conversation with us, then we're done as in we're cut. So we were silenced. We weren't allowed to talk about it. The season rolls up and I, for the first few games, did not see the court at all. And the entire season, I barely got to play. I was practically benched my entire senior season.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
And a bunch of other girls on the team weren't able to play too because of this male, because obviously he's going to be better because he's a male. Let's be real. He is a junior who played over senior girls. And obviously he had a major role in our team because he was good.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
And at the end of the season, he ended the season with 99 kills, which is if you don't know in volleyball, it's when you spike a ball and getting a kill is whatever it's statistics. And also one of our teammates had a school class project. where she wanted to measure our verticals, which if you don't know what a vertical is, it's just how high you can jump.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
And then me and another girl on my team had a high vertical of 40 for all the girls. And then the highest vertical was obviously the male on our team, biological male on our team, who had 60, which was way more comparable to all the boys on our team. And at the end of the season, this individual got All League, which is an award of recognition for the statistics.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
Yes. So I go to a very big school. So not knowing somebody is very common. But there was another girl on my team who did know this individual. As he. And it was just a new thing, allegedly over the summer that he decided he wanted to be she, if that makes sense.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
Because she agreed with it. She thought I was OK.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
There were about three of them. Three or four out of the 14 that were on our team. So, I mean, I'm not really good at math, so I don't know.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yes, I had a lot of backlash and a lot actually from girls on my team that agreed with this individual being on the team. A lot of people at my school and parents online actually have gone after me and attacked me online for speaking out about this matter and asked if I was mad of the other girls who got to play over me. A lot of people actually called me once.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
I got a comment online saying that I was racist from all of this. And I'm like, how does that have to relate? It just has to do with all this. Like if you speak out about one thing, you're called names for everything because everyone likes to put a label on it. You know what I mean?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It definitely strengthened me and it definitely took a big toll on my senior year. And if I could take anything back from this is that you can't stay silent. You have to speak up for what you believe in and don't let anyone else get to you. And don't let anybody else silence you and tell you that you are wrong for what you think.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
Stand up. Don't stay silent. I mean, you can't, if you're going to stay silent, then you can't make a change and nothing's going to change. If you stay silent, things are going to continue to go the way they are. And the direction that things are going is not a good direction. And it's not something I want to see in the future.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Donald Trump Liberates...Canada?
And I don't want anybody else to have to go through what I went through because it was horrible.