The University of Wyoming women’s volleyball team became the third team in the country to lose a game at San Jose State this season.
Wyoming joined Boise State and Southern Utah, all of which gave no specific reason for the seizure.
“After a lengthy discussion, the University of Wyoming will not play its scheduled conference match against San Jose State University, the volleyball program said in a statement Tuesday. Per Mountain West Conference policy, the conference will record the match as a win and loss for Wyoming.
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Blair Fleming, a transgender athlete, has played three seasons at SJSU after previously playing at Coastal Carolina. (San Jose State University)
Blair Fleming, a transgender woman, competes on the San Jose State team. Fleming is a redshirt junior at San Jose State University who plays as an outside and right-sided hitter and played two seasons at SJSU after previously playing at Coastal Carolina.
San Jose State responded statement to outkick On Tuesday.
“It is disappointing that our SJSU student athletes, who are in full compliance with NCAA and Mountain West rules and regulations, are being denied opportunities to compete. We are proud of their ability to work through these challenges and to compete.” “Committed to supporting student-athletes in an inclusive, fair, safe and respectful environment,” the statement read.
San Jose women’s volleyball team member Brooke Slusser joins 18 other athletes Sue the NCAA On your current gender identity policies. The lawsuit alleges that Slusser, who had transferred to San Jose, began to fear for her safety after realizing that one of her new teammates was transgender.
Slusser claimed he did not know Fleming was transgender, despite sharing rooms together on team trips, according to court documents. Slusser also expressed safety concerns for opponents playing against Fleming.
“Brooke estimates that Fleming’s spikes were hitting upwards of 80 mph, which is the fastest she’s ever seen a woman hit a volleyball,” Slusser’s complaint states. “The girls were doing everything they could to avoid Fleming’s spikes but still could not completely protect themselves.”
East NCAA swimmer Riley Goinswho is also involved in a lawsuit against the NCAA for competing and sharing a locker room with transgender biological male opponent Lia Thomas, in a statement to Fox News Digital as the second program to refuse to compete against San Jose State I appreciated Boise State. On 27th September.
“I appreciate the Boise State athletic department and everyone involved in the decision to forfeit the game against undefeated San Jose State,” Gaines said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
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Riley Gaines is sworn in during a hearing of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services on Capitol Hill on December 5, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
“Some principles go beyond winning on the court, and the safety and well-being of female athletes is one of them. It’s encouraging to see a growing number of institutions prioritizing fairness and athlete safety rather than forced inclusion. I hope more “The universities will follow suit.” The leadership of Boise State and Southern Utah, standing up for what is right and protecting the integrity of women’s sports.”
Utah Governor Brad Little also praised Boise State for its decision. The Little State of Utah has been one of the most active states in the country in opposing transgender inclusion in women’s sports.
On August 28, Little signed an executive order to implement the “Defending Women Sports Act”, which issued new protocols to the state’s public schools to promote the exclusion of transgender people from women’s sports.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on August 30, Little did not rule out conducting gender eligibility testing for all girls’ and women’s sports teams, but she said “I would have to see really good evidence that it’s necessary.”
“From a national perspective, there are some radical small groups that want to impose changes to the rules that we already have. I’m confident in what we have, and we as the state of Idaho, legally and legally. Both sides will (act) aggressively, legislatively, to protect female athletes and the great progress they have made because of Title IX.”
In April, the Biden administration issued a sweep rule clarifying that Title IX’s ban on “sex” discrimination in schools covers discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation, and “pregnancy or related conditions.”
Rule Became effective August 1 and stated in law for the first time Discrimination on the basis of sex involves conduct relating to a person gender identity. The Biden administration stressed that the regulation does not address athletic eligibility. However, many experts presented evidence Fox News Digital was told in June that Biden’s claims that it would not allow biological males to participate in women’s sports were not true and that the proposal would ultimately include more biological males in women’s sports.
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US President Joe Biden and US Vice President Kamala Harris attend an event on gun violence in the East Room of the White House on September 26, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
But the current administration’s efforts have faced fierce resistance from GOP lawmakers like Little, and now individual schools and teams are also taking a stand.
On 16th August, Supreme Court That vote voted 5-4 to deny the Biden administration’s emergency request to implement parts of the new rule that include protections from discrimination for transgender students under Title IX.
Now, Wyoming, southern Utah and Boise State have stepped up that resistance.
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