Fan told he can't wear controversial shirt during college's volleyball game against team with trans athlete

This is the infinitesimal a assemblage postgraduate was told helium could not deterioration a 'Keep Women's Sports Female' garment portion watching his school's volleyball crippled against transgender jock Blaire Fleming.

In exclusive footage obtained by Outkick, Air Force Academy officials tin beryllium heard telling John Kopecky to screen up his arguable garment during their crippled against San Jose State and Fleming, who is simply a biologic male.

Kopecky was archetypal made to unzip his hoody and uncover what helium was wearing underneath, lone to beryllium told helium could not show the garment arsenic the connection was 'political' and not allowed.

While helium was allowed in, Air Force officials told him helium would beryllium ordered to permission if the hoody was unzipped, with respective eyes said to beryllium connected him during the game.

'I saw information pointing maine retired to the superintendent [and] the commandant,' Kopecky said. 'I could benignant of spot retired of the country of my eye, they were pointing astatine wherever I was sitting.'

Fleming, who is successful their 3rd play connected San Jose State's women's volleyball roster, is astatine the halfway of a class-action suit filed against the NCAA, which is being accused by much than a twelve pistillate athletes of knowingly violating a instrumentality that prohibits sex-based favoritism by allowing a transgender jock to vie successful women's sports.

Multiple opponents person besides refused to play against San Jose State successful caller months owed to information concerns implicit their trans player.

Kopecky besides opened up connected different changes to the accustomed process astatine Air Force volleyball games, with information besides not allowing fans to bring immoderate signs into the facility.

A ample committee containing a instrumentality codification of behaviour was besides much disposable than ever before.

'They brought retired a large committee with each these rules astir instrumentality behaviour that whitethorn person been determination successful the past, but I've ne'er seen it [displayed] close astatine the door,' Kopecky said. 

Air Force Academy is quoted arsenic saying successful a statement: 'Air Force Athletics takes indispensable measures to supply a harmless situation astatine each location diversion events for players, coaches, unit and fans.'

San Jose State went connected to bushed Air Force connected the time to spell 11-3 for the season.

As the quality implicit trans athletes successful women's sports rages on, Fleming - who is yet to publically travel retired arsenic trans - sparked further contention earlier this period by sending a ferocious spike disconnected an opponent's face. 

The spike took spot connected the SJSU field with the San Diego State Aztecs starring the San Jose State Spartans 22-12 successful the 2nd set.

It was past that Fleming was acceptable up by teammate Brooke Slusser earlier rocketing a spike disconnected the look of San Diego State's Keira Herron.

'Keira Herron has immoderate pinkish successful her hairsbreadth and her look is starting to look similar she's matching that arsenic evidently she took the contact,' 1 announcer said successful the video, which rapidly went viral.

Remarkably, Herron kept the play alive, albeit lone momentarily earlier the constituent yet went to the Spartans. And what's more, she was adjacent laughing afterwards portion appearing to archer a teammate that she was 'fine.'

Fleming has been cleared by San Jose State to play for the SJSU women's volleyball squad for 3 seasons, joining successful 2022.

The Mountain West Conference has been notified by ICONS astir athletes' information concerns regarding Fleming, who was named successful a national suit filed by the organization. Slusser, the SJSU subordinate who acceptable Fleming up for the aforementioned spike, has since joined that lawsuit.