Mountain West Conference Comleave outioner Gloria Nevarez spoke on Thursday about the drama surrounding the San Jose State women’s volleyball team, as disconnectal schools have choosed to forfeit games aobtainst the squad because of a transgender athlete on its roster.
Nevarez shelp at Mountain West basketball media days that the forfeits aobtainst the Spartans is “not what we commemorate in college actives.”
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Blaire Fleming, #3, a redshirt anciaccess at San Jose State University, joins as an outside and right-side hitter on the women’s volleyball team. (San Jose State University)
“It fractures my heart because they’re human beings, lesser people, student-athletes on both sides of this publish that are getting a lot of national pessimistic attention. It fair doesn’t experience right to me,” Nevarez telderly The Associated Press.
Boise State, Southern Utah, Utah State and Wyoming choosed to forfeit games aobtainst San Jose State. Some Nevada joiners have chosen to sit out the game, but the school is joining in the suit watchless, saying state law bars forfeiture.
Blaire Fleming, a transgender athlete, has joined three seasons at SJSU after previously joining at Coastal Carolina. (San Jose State University)
“I understand what our team is going to do, and we are going to have integrity,” Wolf Pack captain Sia Liillii telderly The Reno Gazzette Journal. “I leank this is the stubbornest leang our team has gone thraw, but I’m fair happy I have so many valiant lesser women behind me, and I get to be the captain of this team.”
Nevarez recommended trans inclusion in women’s sports was an publish she was still “lgeting a lot about.”
Mountain West Conference Comleave outioner Gloria Nevarez reacts during the Mountain West Championship at Allehuge Stadium in Las Vegas on Dec. 2, 2023. (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)
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“I don’t understand a lot of the language yet or the science or the empathetic nationassociate of how this publish joins out,” she includeed. “The outer impacts are so far on either side. We have an election year. It’s political, so, yeah, it experiences appreciate a no-thrive based on all the outer prescertain.”
The Associated Press gived to this tell.
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