Catherine Miranda laughed at a volleyball player's body on camera in March.
Three months later the Arizona Senate passed the bill that the player championed anyway.
Now Kaylie Ray has one more message for the senator who tried to humiliate her into silence.
Arizona Senate Passes Save Women's Sports Referral 16 to 12
HCR 2003 cleared the Arizona Senate this month on a 16-12 vote.
The measure, sponsored by Republican Rep. Selina Bliss, requires every school and athletic association in the state to designate teams as male, female or coed based on biological sex.
It also locks down locker rooms, showers and restrooms by sex.
Voters get the final say in November.
Democrat state Sen. Catherine Miranda voted no on every version of it.
She voted no in the Senate Education Committee in March.
She voted yes on a last-minute Democrat amendment that would have gutted the bill's sex-based standard entirely.
That amendment failed.
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She voted no on the final passage anyway.
This is the same Catherine Miranda who went viral for mocking Kaylie Ray's body during a March hearing.
Ray is a former Utah State volleyball star who watched her own conference get hijacked by a biological male competitor at San Jose State from 2022 to 2024.
She forfeited a match in protest in 2024.
She joined a lawsuit against SJSU.
She stood on the steps of the Supreme Court in January while justices heard arguments in two cases that will decide whether states can even pass laws like this one.
When Ray showed up in March to testify for HCR 2003, Miranda didn't debate the policy.
She went after Ray's body and questioned whether she was good enough to have ever lost a roster spot at all.
The exchange detonated online.
Ray Says Miranda Never Responded to Her Invitation
Ray told Fox News Digital she offered to meet with Miranda privately after the hearing.
Miranda never took her up on it.
"Her silence to me is that she's doubled down," Ray said.
Ray said Democrat lawmakers keep calling the bill a ban on an entire group of people.
She says that's not what it does.
"This is not intended to target any one group, but instead to strengthen the protections that we already have in sport," Ray said. "Those individuals are absolutely allowed to compete in sport, they must do so in their category, sex at birth."
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She also noticed something else.
"None of her supports reached out to me," Ray said. "Which begs the question, does she have any supporters? I'm not sure."
Three months of public fighting, and not one Democrat colleague has publicly backed Miranda's position.
The Amendment That Made No Sense
On June 12, Democrat Sen. Analise Ortiz tried one more move before the final vote.
She introduced a floor amendment that would have stripped the requirement that teams be designated by biological sex at all.
In its place, Ortiz wanted athletic associations to use vague criteria about traits "associated with athletic performance and relevant to the sport."
No definition of sex. No birth certificate standard. Just performance characteristics, decided by whoever runs the league.
Miranda voted for it.
It failed.
Ray called the whole thing "bizarre."
"It just felt like we were grasping at straws for things, in my opinion, that had absolutely no bearing on what the bill is talking about," she said.
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Translate that out of polite-witness language: Democrats had no actual counterargument to "biological sex determines fair competition," so they tried to rewrite the definition of fair competition instead. The Senate didn't buy it.
This Fight Is About to Get a Supreme Court Verdict
Arizona isn't writing this fight from scratch.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in January on two cases asking whether states can keep biological males off girls' teams.
A ruling lands before the end of June.
Heritage Foundation testimony on these laws has laid out the same pattern Arizona just lived through: Democrat governors and lawmakers blocking Title IX protections that already existed for fifty years, then dressing up the blockade as compassion.
Republicans in the Arizona Legislature didn't wait around for nine justices to settle it.
They went straight to the one authority Gov. Katie Hobbs can't veto: the voters themselves.
Hobbs has already shown she'll block a bill like this if it lands on her desk.
Republicans don't have the votes to override her.
So, as Rep. Bliss put it, they took it around her.
Why This One Stuck Where Others Got Blocked
Arizona already passed a law like this once.
The 2022 Save Women's Sports Act got partially blocked by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before it could fully take effect.
HCR 2003 was built specifically to fix that.
It applies to private schools and athletic clubs, not just public ones, closing the loophole that let the Ninth Circuit chip away at the original law.
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Ray is living proof of why the loophole mattered.
Her own conference, the Mountain West, had no statewide law forcing the issue when San Jose State's situation blew up her senior season.
She's part of a lawsuit now because the rules didn't exist yet when she needed them.
Arizona voters get to decide in November whether they exist going forward.
What Comes Next
Ray isn't waiting around for Miranda to call her back.
She's playing semi-pro volleyball for the Arizona Gila Monsters before she heads to Greece this year to start her professional career.
She says her teammates have been nothing but supportive.
The trolls online haven't stopped.
"It was incredibly difficult for me at first," Ray said, "especially when I was at Utah State and we initially took that stand… Now it has become so second nature to me."
Catherine Miranda had a chance to debate a college athlete on the merits.
She mocked her body on camera instead, then watched the bill pass without her vote anyway.
In November, Arizona voters will get to finish what the Senate started.
Sources:
- Jackson Thompson, "Volleyball star skewers Democrat state lawmaker from viral spat after 'Save Women's Sports' bill passes," OutKick/Fox News Digital, June 16, 2026.
- "Arizona House Approves Rep. Bliss' 'Protect Girls' Sports In Arizona Act,'" AZ Free News, February 26, 2026.
- "Arizona House Republicans advance HCR 2003 to Protect Girls' Sports and Privacy Rights," The Gila Herald, February 26, 2026.
- The White House, "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports," Executive Order 14201, February 5, 2025.
- Heritage Foundation testimony, "Biological Males in Women's Sports Guarantees Unfair Outcomes," The Heritage Foundation.
