San Jose State Faces Consequences of Not Protecting Women-Mass Exodus of Players From Volleyball Team
San Jose State University (SJSU) faced eight-game forfeitures by opposing teams because biological male Blaire Fleming plays for the University’s women’s volleyball team. Now, multiple players are choosing to leave SJSU and enter the transfer portal.
A lawsuit was ultimately filed against the Mountain West, alleging that allowing Fleming to play at San Jose State violates Title IX and the players’ First and 14th Amendment rights.
BREAKING: The co-captain of the @SJSU girl’s volleyball team along with 10 athletes from other schools are suing San Jose State University for infringing on their Title IX rights by allowing a male who thinks he’s transgender to play on the women’s team.
KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S… pic.twitter.com/xIQJG35qFG
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 18, 2024
In October, The Gateway Pundit reported that during a match between San Jose State and San Diego State, the 6-foot-1 Fleming rocketed a spike off the face of San Diego State’s Keira Herron. The young woman immediately fell to the floor.
Here is the leaping ability and arm speed during a kill of the 6-1 male volleyball player –Brayden “Blaire” Fleming — playing for the girls team at San Jose State University. Little wonder other girls team are refusing to compete against him. pic.twitter.com/BBaVU6NyYO
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) November 30, 2024
Fox News reports that one of Fleming’s teammates, co-captain Brooke Slusser, joined the lawsuit alleging the program withheld knowledge about Fleming’s birth gender from her and other players on the team, forcing the team to share changing and sleeping spaces without being informed that Fleming was a biological male.
Associate head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose went public with her concerns and filed a Title IX complaint against the school, alleging Fleming conspired with an opponent to help the team lose a match and injure Slusser.
Hey @NCAA, it’s alleged in this Title IX complaint filed by the assistant SJSU coach (who got suspended after filing it) that the male player on the women’s SJSU volleyball team conspired with his opponents to intentionally HARM his teammate.
And crickets???? https://t.co/Yz47sODzAk
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) November 3, 2024
Batie-Smoose was suspended for speaking out.
SJSU has publicly acknowledged the mass exodus of seven players that have chosen to enter the transfer portal.
The university provided a statement to Fox News Digital in which it expressed “respect” for the recent wave of players who have opted to transfer. “Student athletes have the ability to make decisions about their college athletic careers, and we have the utmost respect for that,” the statement read.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that seven of the team’s players have entered the transfer portal.
The seven players who are transferring will be leaving the team after a season that included eight forfeited matches, regular police protection, national scrutiny and internal turmoil between players and coaches. One player even received threats of physical harmamid the controversy.
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