Nevada gov backs women's volleyball players refusing to compete against team with trans player

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo expressed his enactment for the Nevada Wolf Pack women’s volleyball players who garbage to vie against San Jose State, which has a transgender pistillate connected their roster.

Lombardo backed players successful a connection connected X, adding that "No pupil jock should ever beryllium pressured to play a crippled wherever they don’t consciousness harmless — period."

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Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo speaks with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

"As I’ve said previously, I judge determination are contention and information concerns with this issue, and it’s irresponsible for the NCAA to enactment pupil athletes successful a presumption of balancing their idiosyncratic information against the schools, contention and sports they love," Lombardo’s connection read.

"The pupil athletes astatine the University of Nevada, Reno person determined that they bash not privation to play against San Jose State, and I wholeheartedly respect the determination of the players.

"No pupil jock should ever beryllium pressured to play a crippled wherever they don’t consciousness harmless – period.

"The NCAA has a work to code this contented successful a consistency mode that protects the integrity of women’s sports and the pupil athletes who participate."

The NCAA did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

NEVADA WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS CHOOSE TO FORFEIT MATCH VS. SAN JOSE STATE DESPITE SCHOOL'S INTENTIONS

The contented for Nevada and respective different schools is astir going up against Blaire Fleming; the transgender pistillate subordinate who has been seen spiking balls into the look of opponents during matches.

From beforehand near to right, San Jose State setter Brooke Slusser celebrates aft scoring a constituent with libero Randilyn Reeves, extracurricular hitter Blaire Fleming and libero Alessia Buffagni during the archetypal acceptable of an NCAA assemblage volleyball lucifer against Colorado State connected Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024 successful Fort Collins, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Nevada players initially said successful a statement to OutKick on Monday they planned connected forfeiting their lucifer against the Spartans to "stand successful solidarity" with Southern Utah, Boise State, Wyoming and Utah State, who person each pulled retired of their matches against the Spartans.

"We request that our close to information and just contention connected the tribunal beryllium upheld," the connection continued. "We garbage to enactment successful immoderate lucifer that advances injustice against pistillate athletes."

However, the schoolhouse said successful a connection connected Monday nighttime the squad would not forfeit the match.

"The players’ determination and connection were made independently, and without consultation with the University oregon the diversion department. The players’ determination besides does not correspond the presumption of the University," the connection read.

"The University and its diversion programs are governed by the Nevada Constitution and Nevada law, which strictly support equality of rights nether the law, and that equality of rights shall not beryllium denied oregon abridged by this authorities oregon immoderate of its subdivisions connected relationship of race, color, creed, sex, intersexual orientation, sex individuality oregon expression, age, disability, ancestry oregon nationalist origin. The University is besides governed by national instrumentality arsenic good arsenic the rules and regulations of the NCAA and the Mountain West Conference, which see providing contention successful an inclusive and supportive environment.

The Nevada Wolfpack logo. (Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images)

"The University intends to determination guardant with the lucifer arsenic scheduled, and the players whitethorn take not to enactment successful the lucifer connected the time of the contest. No players volition beryllium taxable to immoderate squad disciplinary enactment for their determination not to enactment successful the match."

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Several schools opted to forfeit matches against San Jose State alternatively of playing against the Spartans.

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