Fans outraged as San Jose State volleyball team and trans player Blaire Fleming reach playoffs

San Jose State's women's volleyball squad has secured a playoff berth, leaving fans furious amid the contention surrounding trans subordinate Blaire Fleming.

Multiple opponents have refused to play against San Jose State this play owed to information concerns implicit Fleming, who is simply a biologic male.

As a result, the squad has had 7 victories awarded via forfeit successful the 2024 campaign, handing them a 12-6 league signaling and a first-round bye successful the playoffs.

Fleming and the Spartans are present guaranteed a semifinal tie, wherever they volition conscionable either Utah State oregon Boise State - 2 of the teams who forfeited against them earlier this season.

And fans are acold from blessed connected societal media.

'They whitethorn get the trophy, but not the honor, it volition lone beryllium a information trophy due to the fact that they cheated,' 1 idiosyncratic commented connected X.

Another posted: 'Men don’t beryllium successful women’s sports. The SJSU manager and [athletics director] request to beryllium fired.'

A 3rd said: 'Get that dude disconnected the woman's team! Come connected already!'

'Winning by cheating is not winning truthful sad,' wrote a fourth.

While 1 simply put: 'Shame connected woke universities.'

Fleming, who is successful their 3rd play connected SJSU's roster, is presently 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 them to vie successful women's sports. 

Utah State, Southern Utah and Nevada person each forfeited games against the Spartans amid that lawsuit, portion Boise State and Wyoming has refused to play them connected 2 abstracted occasions. 

According to Outkick , Fleming's college has asked for wealth from Boise State and Utah State aft saying they mislaid retired arsenic a effect of the cancellations. 

Both fixtures were slated to beryllium hosted by the Spartans, meaning they were incapable to currency successful connected crippled time gross erstwhile they forfeited.

It is believed San Jose State has called for their 2 rivals to each wage a interest of $1,250.

San Jose State athletics manager Jeff Konya is quoted arsenic saying successful an email to Boise State: 'Your institution's arbitrary determination not to play an different eligible NCAA squad has resulted successful harm to SJSU financially and our institution's brand.

'We estimation we missed retired connected astir $1,250 successful crippled time gross by not playing the [match] connected Saturday erstwhile you adhd each of the assorted gross sources (i.e., concessions, parking among others). I would inquire to beryllium made full astatine the precise least.'

Boise State confirmed that they did not wage San Jose State contempt their demands, portion it is unclear whether Utah State did truthful oregon not.

Meanwhile, thirteen Republican congressmembers person written to the Mountain West Conference to impulse commissioner Gloria Nevarez to prohibition transgender athletes from playing sports against cisgender women.

'We constitute with superior concerns astir the information and just contention standards for female athletes participating successful the Mountain West Conference,' work the open letter signed by members of the House and Senate. 'We impulse you to update your pupil jock guidelines to prohibit biologic males from competing against biologic pistillate students successful women's sports.'

The signees see Wyoming senator Cynthia Lummis, Idaho senator Mike Crapo, and Burgess Owens, the Utah congressman who antecedently won a Super Bowl arsenic a antiaircraft backmost for the Oakland Raiders astatine the extremity of the 1980 season.