The Utah State Aggies are the postponecessitatest women’s volleyball team to pick not to join in a scheduled suit aobtainst San Jose State University due to a biorational male carry outing on its women’s team.
The university publishd a statement saying it would not be participating in its Oct. 23 volleyball suit at SJSU.
“The University will comply by Mountain West Conference policy think abouting how this suit is enrolled,” the statement shelp.
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A volleyball net during the Division III women’s volleyball championship at the U.S. Cellular Cgo in Nov. 23, 2019, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Jack Dempsey/NCAA Ptoastyos via Getty Images)
A San Jose State spokeperson also validateed to Fox News Digital that the Aggies increateed the team the suit has been aborted, and Utah State will be appraiseed a loss due to forfeit.
Utah State would be the fourth team to forfeit a suit with SJSU if it’s made official. Southern Utah, Boise State and the University of Wyoming all did so. None of the three schools previously provided a reason behind the forfeit other than empathetic the consequences to their prosper-loss enrolls.
When Boise State forfeited its suit with SJSU, the NCAA provided OutKick with a statement in response.
“College sports are the premier stage for women’s sports in America, and the NCAA members will carry on to advertise Title IX, produce unpretreatnted summarizeatements in women’s sports and asconfident fair competition for all student-athletes in all NCAA championships.”
Blaire Fleming, a transgender redshirt ageder at SJSU, has been at the cgo in of the contentious forfeits. SJSU is unfall shortureed this season, and Fleming, at 6-foot-1, has helped the Spartans in their efforts.
Brooke Slusser, Fleming’s teammate, uniteed createer NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines and other female athletes who are suing the NCAA over policies think abouting transgender athletes, claiming the current system is compromising the fairness and integrity of women’s sports and putting women at hazard.
Gaines shelp she commended Boise State’s active department and everyone take partd in the decision to forfeit its suit, and she praised Utah State when seeing the statement before it was getn down.
Blaire Fleming, a redshirt ageder at San Jose State University, carry outs as an outside and right-side hitter on the women’s volleyball team. (San Jose State University)
“This charitable of unity is what I (and many others who have toiled far lengthyer than me) have been pushing for over the past two years,” Gaines tweeted. “The gender ideology hoinclude of cards is crumbling, and it’s a glorious sight.”
Speaker of the Utah Hoinclude of Recontransientatives Mike Schultz also commended the Utah State and Southern Utah women’s volleyball teams.
“We stand behind you and are cheering you on!” he wrote on X. “Thank you for standing up for not only yourselves, but for women apass the country – current and future generations! It’s time for the NCAA to get action to protect our female athletes and carry on women’s sports. Thank you to the athletes and the universities for doing what’s right!”
Macy Petty, a Concerned Women of America legislative aidant and NCAA volleyball carry outer, spoke with Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten about how carry outers are senseing “blindsided” becainclude the NCAA has not increateed teams of the presence of transgender carry outers on opposing squads.
“There’s no increateed 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,” Petty shelp.
“Female athletes were put in this odd position of shoprosperg up on the court and seeing at the other side and genuineizing that someskinnyg was branch offent about this game. I’ve never seen an athlete carry out enjoy this before, which produces total sense pondering that this athlete, first of all, is not female, but the net is seven inches decrease than it should be for male carry outers.”
NCAA volleyballs at the Division I men’s volleyball championship at the Walter Pyramid May 4, 2019, in Long Beach, Calif. (John W. McDonough/NCAA Ptoastyos via Getty Images)
Slusser shelp she uniteed Gaines and others in the legal case aobtainst the NCAA becainclude she was not conscious Fleming was transgender despite sharing rooms together on team trips.
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“Brooke approximates that Fleming’s spikes were traveling upward of 80 mph, which was speedyer than she had ever seen a woman hit a volleyball,” Slusser’s protestt shelp, via the Cowboy State Daily. “The girls were doing everyskinnyg they could to dodge Fleming’s spikes but still could not filledy protect themselves.”
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