Lia Thomas reacts to San Jose State women's volleyball transgender controversy

Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer who won a women’s nationalist title successful 2022, empathized with San Jose State’s Blaire Fleming, who's astatine the halfway of the latest contention successful the sport.

Fleming’s information with the San Jose State women’s volleyball squad sparked disapproval and lawsuits implicit a transgender subordinate successful the sport. 

Thomas reacted to the contention successful an interrogation with ESPN.

"It tin beryllium conscionable highly invasive and dehumanizing," Thomas told the outlet. "And it's successful a way, I think, precise fewer radical ever experience. To person my ain idiosyncratic individuality and personhood turned into a civilization warfare talking constituent conscionable wholly takes each my humanity away. It tin beryllium precise hard to support trying to persevere done that."

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Blaire Fleming of the San Jose State Spartans waits to service during the archetypal acceptable against the Air Force Falcons astatine Falcon Court astatine East Gym Oct. 19, 2024, successful Colorado Springs, Colo. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

Thomas spoke to ESPN aft a national justice ruled successful favour of Fleming and San Jose State successful a suit that sought to person the volleyball subordinate sidelined up of the Mountain West Conference tournament.

Fleming led the squad successful kills during the regular play with 297 and has a team-leading 3.86 kills per set.

Fleming raised eyebrows at points during the play with immoderate vicious spikes that ricocheted disconnected opponents. It has led to disapproval of however overmuch powerfulness Fleming is putting into the kills and whether the subordinate has much spot arsenic a transgender athlete.

Penn Quakers swimmer Lia Thomas prepares for the 200 escaped astatine the NCAA swimming and diving championships astatine Georgia Tech successful Atlanta March 18, 2022. (Brett Davis/USA Today Sports)

Some downplayed those concerns.

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Judge Kato Crews wrote the plaintiffs’ petition for an exigency hold "was not reasonable" and "would hazard disorder and upend months of readying and would prejudice, astatine a minimum, (San Jose State) and different teams participating successful the tournament."

Crews’ ruling allowed Fleming to play successful the tournament, and forfeits stay arsenic losses. Boise State, Wyoming, Utah State and Nevada were among the Mountain West schools to cancel games against San Jose State owed to Fleming’s beingness connected the team. Those games resulted successful forfeits and losses and helped the Spartans summation the No. 2 effect successful the league tournament.

"San José State University volition proceed to enactment its student-athletes and cull favoritism successful each forms. All San José State University student-athletes are eligible to enactment successful their sports nether NCAA and Mountain West Conference rules," the schoolhouse said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. 

Blaire Fleming plays against the Air Force Falcons astatine Falcon Court astatine East Gym Oct. 19, 2024, successful Colorado Springs, Colo. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

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"We are gratified that the tribunal rejected an eleventh-hour effort to alteration those rules. Our squad looks guardant to competing successful the Mountain West volleyball tourney this week."

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