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A erstwhile women’s volleyball manager suspended for warring backmost against a university's handling of a transgender jock connected the women's squad praised President Trump's changes to Title IX connected Sunday, calling them "a large archetypal measurement successful the close direction."
"Now we request to proceed it, and… the laws [have to] alteration and the NCAA has to marque those changes indispensable truthful that we prevention women's sports and that we proceed to person women's sports," Melissa Batie-Smoose, erstwhile San Jose State University volleyball coach, told "Fox & Friends Weekend's" Charlie Hurt.
Batie-Smoose was suspended past twelvemonth implicit a Title IX ailment she filed against the schoolhouse regarding transgender jock Blaire Fleming, alleging Fleming conspired with an hostile to assistance the squad suffer a lucifer and injure teammate Brooke Slusser.
SUSPENDED SAN JOSE STATE COACH EMBROILED IN TRANSGENDER CONTROVERSY SOUNDS ALARM ON WOMEN'S SPORTS
NCAA Logos are featured during the Division I Women's Volleyball Semifinals held astatine PPG Paints Arena connected December 19, 2019 successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)
Slusser lamented that her coach's suspension "took distant the lone harmless abstraction we had."
Now Batie-Smoose's declaration has expired, and the schoolhouse is not rehiring her.
"It's conscionable been a agelong 2 years and lasting up for what's right, and making definite we're continuing to support women and women's sports is what I stood up for and present currently, aft 30 years successful my career, [I] person been fto go," she said Sunday.
Melissa Batie-Smoose filed a Title IX complaint. (Fox News Channel)
"The radical astir them [the girls connected the team], were not supporting them. The administration, the diversion department, the caput manager were each protecting the antheral and beauteous overmuch gaslighting everybody involved," she added.
"It was a precise pugnacious concern for each of them. Very traumatic what they had to spell through, and it's unfortunate they person 4 years to play collegiate volleyball, and their past 2 years were affected truthful overmuch and not being capable to play immoderate of their matches."
San Jose State was incapable to remark connected the situation, citing unit matters.
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Fox News' Ryan Gaydos and Claudia Cowan contributed to this report.
Taylor Penley is an subordinate exertion with Fox News.
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