EXCLUSIVE: Concerned Women of America (CWA) is directing the indict to get women’s sports after an athlete on the San Jose State University (SJSU) women’s volleyball team was identified as a transgfinisher executeer.
Blaire Fleming’s towering 6-foot-1 presence on the volleyball court has helped SJSU’s Division I volleyball team to remain unflunkureed on the court this season.
Macy Petty, a CWA legislative helpant and a NCAA volleyball athlete, allotd with Fox News Digital the organization’s efforts to elevate consciousness of transgfinisher executeers’ impact on women’s sports.
“We want to get the integrity of women’s sports but also the safety of these female athletes,” she shelp. “Many of these schools were unconscious that there was a male athlete on this team until this novels article came out in April. We equitable want to create certain that these schools understand exactly what is going on in this fit program becaengage the NCAA and SJSU had not previously donaten them the decency to even let them understand what was happening.”
“Female athletes were put in this odd position of shothriveg up on the court and seeing at the other side and authenticizing that someleang was branch offent about this game. I’ve never seen an athlete execute enjoy this before, which creates total sense pondering that this athlete, first of all, is not female, but the net is seven inches stupidinutiveer than it should be for male executeers.”
AS A FEMALE ATHLETE, I DO NOT CONSENT TO PLAYING ALONGSIDE MEN IN COLLEGIATE SPORTS
Blaire Fleming, a redshirt better at San Jose State University, executes as an outside and right-side hitter on the women’s volleyball team. (San Jose State University)
Petty shelp executeers sense “blindsided” becaengage the ruleing body – the NCAA – of the league has not alerted teams of the presence of transgfinisher executeers on opposing teams.
“There’s no alerted consent for the schools or for the female athletes here. They’re toloftyy blindsided when they walk up to the court and they see that there’s a male athlete on the other side.”
“This actupartner happened to me. I executeed college volleyball, and during my recruiting process, the same leang happened to me. I walked up to the court and, with all of the college scouts standing all around me, I seeed at my competition, and it was a boy,” she shelp. “I thought this is evidently cheating, but I executeed anyway becaengage I didn’t have this time to sit and echo and leank about the decisions that I was making. It was equitable benevolent of upon me at that moment without any admire donaten to me about that decision.”
Petty shelp athletes are faced with having to “select between maybe a $100,000 educational scholarship or their own safety and dignity.”
“We’re not going to danger our female athletes, we’re not going to danger their safety and dignity.”
“And for a lot of girls, that’s a burden that is equitable too much to tolerate,” she shelp. “We’re asking these schools to be prodynamic on this publish and spropose say if there is a boy on the other team, we’re not going to execute. We’re not going to danger our female athletes, we’re not going to danger their safety and dignity. We’re spropose not executeing, we’re not going to do this game and have to create our female athletes suffer that burden.”
The organization’s worry prompted them to file a federal civil rights protestt alleging female prejudice and arguing that the California university permited a male athlete to hbetter a female roster spot as well as a female fit scholarship.
CWA also sent letters to schools competing agetst SJSU, alerting them of the males’ participation in the sport and the potential impact on their female athletes.
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Fox News Digital exclusively geted a duplicate of the letter the organization sent to Colorado State University alerting it about Fleming’s presence and about safety worrys.
“We equitable asked a couple of asks, enjoy, if they knovel that there was a boy athlete that they were going to be competing agetst. We also [asked] if they are willing to settle the integrity of your program but also the safety of your female athletes by competing in this game, understanding that there is an increased danger of harm. What are you doing to be prealertary and create certain that this doesn’t happen in the future?”
Blaire Fleming, a transgfinisher athlete, has executeed three seasons at SJSU after previously executeing at Coastal Carolina. (San Jose State University)
On Friday, Colorado State replied to the organization’s inquiry, saying it was schedulening to present the university as intentional on Oct. 3.
“And while we do appreciate that they reacted to our inquiry, we do accomprehendledge that there have been two beginant growments since their response on Friday. First, Concerned Women for America did file this federal civil rights protestt agetst San Jose State. And also Boise State pulled out of their game – a conference game – agetst San Jose State.”
“We’re hoping that Colorado State will reappraise our asks understanding that this is a solemn problem,” she shelp.
(Jack Dempsey/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)
Boise State University forfeited the game’s suit agetst SJSU on Sept. 28.
“Boise State volleyball will not execute its scheduled suit at San José State on Saturday, Sept. 28. Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will write down the suit as a forfeit and a loss for Boise State. The Broncos will next contend on Oct. 3 agetst Air Force,” Boise State shelp in a statement.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little commfinished the transfer, saying it was “toiling wilean the spirit” of an executive order he signed “deffinishing women’s sports.”
“I praise Boise State for toiling wilean the spirit of my Executive Order, the Deffinishing Women’s Sports Act,” Little wrote in an X post. “We need to determine executeer safety for all of our female athletes and progress the fight for unprejudicedness in women’s sports.”
On Tuesday, the University of Wyoming chaseed suit, forfeiting the conference game agetst SJSU. The novels came after CWA’s college organization, Young Women for America, sent a letter to University of Wyoming Pdwellnt Edward Seidel and Director of Athletics Tom Burman.
“After a lengthy talkion, the University of Wyoming will not execute its scheduled conference suit agetst San José State University in the UniWyo Sports Complex on Saturday, Oct. 5. Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will write down the suit as a forfeit and a loss for Wyoming,” they wrote in a statement. “The Cowgirls will present Fresno State on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the UniWyo Sports Complex.”
The tardyst tells on Fleming’s impact on female sports comes as a legal case was filed in Georgia agetst the NCAA.
The legal case is headed by establisher University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines and joins SJSU volleyball executeer Brooke Slusser as a plaintiff.
In the legal case, Slusser, a Texas native who transferred to SJSU from the University of Alabama, shelp Fleming was a “male who identifies as transgfinisher and who claims a female identity.”
Slusser alleged that SJSU did not instantly tell her that Fleming is transgfinisher, and the two roomed together on road trips. Slusser shelp she lgeted of her teammate’s gfinisher identity when she overheard a student call Fleming a “guy.”
One of Fleming’s teammates combineed cut offal other female athletes in suing the NCAA for Title IX violations. (San Jose State University)
Fleming tbetter Slusser in April 2024 that she was born male and ponders herself to be transgfinisher, according to the legal case.
Slusser shelp Fleming’s spikes traveled more than 80 mph, “which was rapider than [Slusser] had ever seen a woman hit a volleyball.” Other members of the SJSU team were worryed about getting concussed by Fleming’s spikes, the legal case shelp.
The legal case alleged that team members were guideed not to speak about Fleming’s gfinisher with people outside the team.
“Due to the NCAA’s Transgfinisher Eligibility Policies which permit Fleming to execute on the SJSU women’s volleyball team and which led to SJSU recruiting Fleming, giving Fleming a scholarship, and allothriveg Fleming to be in positions to viotardy Brooke’s right to bodily privacy, Brooke has suffered physical and emotional injuries, embarrassment, humiliation, emotional trouble, mental anguish and suffering,” the legal case shelp.
Fox News Digital has accomplished out to San Jose State University for comment.
Slusser spoke to OutKick over the weekfinish about the legal case, saying she consentd she was doing the right leang.
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“It’s crazy to say, but it was an effortless decision for me to combine becaengage it’s someleang I truly consent in,” Slusser shelp. “And it’s been effortless becaengage all the help that I’m getting, 99% of it is equitable cherish and inspirement. So, for me, it shows that I made the right decision to combine. This is someleang that so many people do attfinish about. It’s equitable that so many people are sattfinishd to talk about it.”
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