Idaho gov praises Boise State’s decision to forfeit women’s volleyball match against team with trans player

Idaho politician Brad Little commended Boise State for forfeiting its lucifer against San Jose State University connected Saturday amid contention surrounding a transgender subordinate of the women’s volleyball team. 

Boise State Athletics confirmed the determination successful a connection connected Saturday. The assemblage did not supply an mentation of the forfeiture. 

Idaho Gov. Brad Little precocious signed an enforcement bid directing the State Board of Education to guarantee the safeguarding of fairness successful women’s sports. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

"Boise State volleyball volition not play its scheduled lucifer astatine San José State connected Saturday, Sept. 28," the connection read. "Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference volition grounds the lucifer arsenic a forfeit and a nonaccomplishment for Boise State. The Broncos volition adjacent vie connected Oct. 3 against Air Force."

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The enactment governor, who recently signed an enforcement order directing the State Board of Education to guarantee the safeguarding of fairness successful women’s sports, released a connection praising the decision. 

"I applaud @BoiseState for moving wrong the tone of my Executive Order, the Defending Women’s Sports Act," his station connected X read. "We request to guarantee subordinate information for each of our pistillate athletes and proceed the combat for fairness successful women’s sports." 

Boise State is the 2nd schoolhouse to opt retired of playing against SJSU amid contention surrounding a subordinate of the women’s volleyball team. 

Blaire Fleming, a redshirt elder astatine San Jose State University, plays arsenic an extracurricular and right-side hitter connected the women’s volleyball team. Fleming, a transgender athlete, has played 3 seasons astatine SJSU aft antecedently playing at Coastal Carolina. 

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Earlier this week, 1 of Fleming’s teammates joined respective different pistillate athletes successful suing the NCAA for Title IX violations. 

A volleyball nett pictured during the Division III Women's Volleyball Championship held astatine the U.S. Cellular Center connected November 23, 2019, successful Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  (Jack Dempsey/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

According to the transgression complaint, Brooke Slusser claimed that she was not alert that Fleming was transgender contempt sharing rooms unneurotic connected squad trips. Slusser besides expressed information concerns for opponents playing against Fleming. 

"Brooke estimates that Fleming’s spikes were traveling upward of 80 mph, which was faster than she had ever seen a pistillate deed a volleyball," Slusser’s ailment said, via the Cowboy State Daily. "The girls were doing everything they could to dodge Fleming’s spikes but inactive could not afloat support themselves."

"One happening that's important successful this lawsuit is truly the carnal information issues successful volleyball," Slusser's attorney, Bill Bock, told OutKick. "And that's what they're facing successful signifier each day. So, it's conscionable a crazy, misguided argumentation that steals diversion dreams from women and gives them to men, and, astatine the aforesaid time, puts women's wellness and information successful danger."

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NCAA Volleyballs pictured astatine the Division I Men's Volleyball Championship held astatine the Walter Pyramid connected May 4, 2019 successful Long Beach, California. (John W. McDonough/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

Payton McNabb, a erstwhile precocious schoolhouse volleyball subordinate from North Carolina, has been among the astir outspoken astir transgender athletes successful the sport. 

In September 2022, McNabb was injured successful a precocious schoolhouse volleyball crippled erstwhile a transgender jock connected the opposing squad spiked the volleyball and struck her successful the face, causing her to autumn backward and endure from a concussion and a cervix injury. 

She continues to suffer from semipermanent carnal and intelligence injuries caused by the incident. 

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