San Jose State volleyball workforce with transgender participant says no extra future matches have been forfeited

The San Jose State girls’s volleyball workforce has already seen 4 of its matches canceled this season amid a nationwide controversy over a transgender participant on the workforce. Nevertheless, that collection of cancelations might have come to its finish because the workforce appears to push ahead in its season. 

A spokesperson from San Jose State College informed Fox Information Digital on Thursday that no upcoming opponents have knowledgeable the workforce it plans to forfeit after Boise State, Southern Utah, Wyoming and Utah State forfeited their matches. 

“We now have no notifications of cancelations right now. We’re scheduled to play residence video games tonight in opposition to San Diego State and Saturday in opposition to UNLV,” the spokesperson mentioned. 

After a loss in straight units to San Diego State on Thursday evening, the workforce fell to 9-2 on the season. Now, the workforce will look to proceed with its common schedule, as none of its opponents have knowledgeable the workforce to count on any extra forfeits, a minimum of in the interim. 

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Blaire Fleming, #3, a redshirt senior at San Jose State College, performs as an out of doors and right-side hitter on the ladies’s volleyball workforce. (San Jose State College)

The workforce has 13 common season video games remaining. The slate contains two matches in opposition to UNLV, two matches in opposition to New Mexico, two matches in opposition to Air Power, a rematch with San Diego State, a rematch in opposition to Colorado State, a match in opposition to Fresno State and a sport in opposition to Nevada. 

The schedule additionally contains second matches in opposition to three of the 4 groups which have already forfeited their first match in opposition to the Spartans, with a match in opposition to Utah State scheduled for Oct. 23, a match in opposition to Wyoming on Nov. 14 and a match in opposition to Boise State on Nov. 21, within the closing sport of the common season. 

These packages haven’t introduced forfeits of their second matches in opposition to San Jose State but.

San Jose State’s season finale in opposition to Boise State, which is ready to be performed at Boise State’s campus in Boise, Idaho. Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed an government order to implement the Defending Girls’s Sports activities Act on Aug. 28, which is aimed toward guaranteeing public colleges don’t permit organic males to take part in ladies’ or girls’s sports activities.

Little recommended Boise State for forfeiting its first match in opposition to San Jose State on Sept. 28, praising the college for upholding the aim of his invoice. That match was scheduled to be performed in California, the place there are not any such legal guidelines to forestall transgenders in girls’s sports activities. 

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San Jose State volleyball head coach Todd Kress beforehand spoke out in opposition to the position politics and the federal government has performed in impeding his workforce’s capacity to play the matches on its schedule. 

“We’re ready the place it seems that authorities and politics has sort of intertwined itself with school sports activities. And the one factor that I like about school sports activities, it is at all times been a secure haven for me, that is one space that authorities I do not suppose needs to be concerned. And plainly a few of these selections are being made at ranges to the place they’re denying their pupil athletes as effectively, which is then denying our pupil athletes,” Kress informed reporters on Oct. 3. 

San Jose State College Spartans head coach Todd Kress speaks with members of the information media following their loss in an NCAA Mountain West girls’s volleyball sport in opposition to the Colorado State College Rams in Fort Collins, Colorado, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle through Getty Photos)

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San Jose State has grow to be the poster youngster for the nationwide debate over transgender inclusion in girls’s sports activities after junior Brooke Slusser, who joined the workforce in 2023 after transferring from Alabama, joined in a lawsuit in opposition to the NCAA, headed by former school swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines, over the governing physique’s present insurance policies on gender identification. Slusser cited her expertise with San Jose State teammate Blaire Fleming, who has been a key participant for the workforce this yr. 

Slusser claimed that she had not been conscious that Fleming was transgender, regardless of sharing rooms collectively on workforce journeys, per the court docket paperwork. Slusser additionally expressed security issues for opponents taking part in in opposition to Fleming. Slusser’s grievance mentioned that she and the opposite gamers on the workforce “couldn’t absolutely defend themselves” from Fleming’s volleyball spikes. 

The scenario has grow to be so tense, that police safety has been assigned to extend the workforce’s safety, Fox Information Digital beforehand reported. 

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