San Jose State volleyball team with transgender player gets a 7th forfeited match, first since Trump's victory

San Jose State's women's volleyball squad volition person a lucifer scratched from its docket for the seventh clip this play amid an ongoing national controversy implicit a transgender jock connected the team. 

The University of Wyoming announced it is forfeiting its 2nd lucifer of the play against San Jose State Friday. Wyoming forfeited its archetypal lucifer against the Spartans astatine the commencement of October. It is besides the archetypal forfeit against San Jose State since Trump's statesmanlike predetermination victory. 

San Jose State responded to the forfeit successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

"Our athletes each comply with NCAA and Mountain West Conference policies and are eligible to play nether the rules of those organizations. Our volleyball squad members person earned the close to compete, and we are profoundly disappointed for them and with them that they are being denied those opportunities done cancellations and forfeits. We are besides arrogant of however they person persevered done these challenges connected the court," the connection said.

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The San Jose State University Spartans are flanked by Moby Arena security, field constabulary and their ain backstage defender during an NCAA Mountain West women’s volleyball crippled against the Colorado State University Rams successful Fort Collins, Colo., Oct. 3, 2024. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

The different programs forfeiting matches against San Jose State were Southern Utah, Utah State, Nevada and Boise State, which has besides forfeited 2 matches against the Spartans. 

Idaho, wherever Boise State is located, has a authorities enforcement bid successful effect by Gov. Brad Little to restrict transgender inclusion successful girls and women's sports. Prior to the 2nd Boise State cancellation, Little told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interview helium was "certain" the lucifer would beryllium canceled and suggested judges and prosecutors would get progressive if it wasn't. San Jose State claims Bosie State has since informed it that the rematch volition beryllium forfeited. 

San Jose State's volleyball squad is astatine the halfway of nationalist contention and locker country tension. Spartans skipper Brooke Slusser sued the NCAA implicit the beingness of a transgender teammate, Blaire Fleming, sharing idiosyncratic spaces with Slusser and the different players. Slusser alleges she was ne'er informed Fleming is simply a biologic male, according to tribunal documents. 

The squad besides suspended adjunct manager Melissa Batie-Smoose aft she filed a Title IX ailment alleging favoritism by the assemblage toward Fleming implicit Slusser. 

Slusser told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interview the univeristy's handling of the concern has near her feeling "unsafe" and successful an unprotected presumption aft aggregate threats against her life. 

"I deliberation anyone tin spot that's successful my ellipse and successful the gym that they're not present to enactment me. They're present to enactment Blaire. And they person decided that they volition fundamentally bash thing to support supporting Blaire and to not beryllium determination for maine and my needs," Slusser said. "I conscionable person decided you can't truly spot anyone here." 

Slusser says Batie-Smoose was the lone manager successful the programme to enactment her successful her determination to articulation the suit and advocator for the extortion of women's athletics.

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"After we recovered retired that she was released, a batch of the squad conscionable benignant of broke down and was benignant of freaking out. And adjacent 1 of my teammates was like, ‘I don’t consciousness harmless anymore' due to the fact that there's nary 1 present that we consciousness similar we tin spell and speech to astir our concerns oregon our existent feelings and tin really talk freely successful beforehand of," Slusser said.

Slusser says she does not consciousness harmless speaking with anyone other progressive successful the program, not adjacent caput manager Todd Kress. 

"You can't genuinely dependable however you're feeling without them conscionable trying to screen it up oregon enactment similar it's each OK. With Melissa, you could dependable however you felt, and she could comfortableness you and validate your feelings and astatine slightest marque you consciousness heard compared to the different coaches," Slusser said.

Slusser says she has not spoken with Fleming since joining the lawsuit. When reflecting connected interactions with Fleming anterior to knowing the player's commencement gender, Slusser admits she regrets "opening up" with the transgender subordinate successful ways she wouldn't person had she known Fleming was a biologic male.

Police extortion has been assigned to the squad passim the controversy, and the assemblage has adjacent had to coordinate further constabulary extortion with different universities for the team's distant games. 

Fox News Digital provided a bid of questions to San Jose State astir the measures it is taking to way down the suspects of those who person made threats against Slusser, including whether integer forensics by the assemblage constabulary section is being utilized oregon whether the concern has been elevated to authorities oregon national investigators. 

"The assemblage has asked students and unit to stock each concerning communications with UPD to beryllium evaluated and addressed appropriately, including successful conjunction with due authorities wherever appropriate," San Jose State told Fox News Digital. 

Colorado State University Police down the San Jose State University Spartans seat show Moby Arena during an NCAA Mountain West women’s volleyball crippled betwixt the Spartans and the Colorado State Rams successful Fort Collins, Colo., Oct. 3, 2024. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

On apical of the information concerns and locker country tensions, the squad is present besides successful limbo with respect to the postseason. The upcoming Mountain West Tournament could diagnostic aggregate matches betwixt San Jose State and programs similar Wyoming, who person already forfeited. 

After Donald Trump's statesmanlike victory, a national crackdown connected transgender athletes successful women's sports could beryllium coming. Trump has advocated for a prohibition of each transgender athletes successful women's sports and said helium would transportation retired that prohibition arsenic president. Slusser and Little some told Fox News Digital they would enactment that ban. 

Liberal politicians and Democrat-supported authorities has created casual pathways for transgender athletes successful women's and girls sports successful caller years and has adjacent made it much hard for parents to intervene successful preventing their daughters from competing against biologic males. 

The Biden-Harris administration's sweeping rewrite of Title IX successful April projected bills similar the Equality Act and a Transgender Bill of Rights that person been projected and co-sponsored by Democrats, which would assistance alteration transgender inclusion successful women's sports astatine a nationalist level. 

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(L-R) 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 Oct. 3, 2024, successful Fort Collins, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

An amendment to the Nevada authorities constitution that aimed to support sex individuality from transgender favoritism was cited by the assemblage successful its determination not to forfeit a crippled against San Jose State successful October. 

Despite players asking the diversion section to forfeit the match, the assemblage refused to comply with authorities law. Nevada's programme forfeited the time earlier the lucifer was to beryllium played owed to not having capable players to participate. This came aft reported disputes betwixt players and administrators and a venue alteration of the programme from Nevada to California. 

However, Democrats person started to region themselves from their stance connected transgender inclusion passim the predetermination cycle. Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton and New York Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi criticized their party's stance connected transgender inclusion successful women's sports. 

Now, with Trump acceptable to instrumentality bureau successful January, a much sweeping enactment to forestall transgender inclusion successful women's sports could beryllium coming with constricted absorption from the left. 

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