SJSU trans women's volleyball player Blaire Fleming gets green light to play conference tourney

San Jose State transgender women’s volleyball subordinate Blaire Fleming volition beryllium allowed to vie for the Spartans successful the Mountain West Conference tourney and the remainder of the season, a justice ruled connected Monday.

Federal Judge Kato Crews, who was appointed by President Biden successful January, denied a question for injunctive alleviation successful assemblage volleyball players’ suit against the Mountain West Conference, according to OutKick.

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Blaire Fleming of the San Jose State Spartans reacts during the acceptable against the Air Force Falcons connected Oct. 19, 2024, successful Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

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."

The players, who represented respective schools successful the Mountain West Conference, sought to person forfeits rescinded, the standings adjusted and Fleming banned from the tourney citing First Amendment and Title IX violations.

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

Fleming has been 1 of the apical players successful the league and an violative anchor for San Jose State this season, adjacent amid the controversy. Fleming is 3rd successful the league successful mean kills per service with 3.86 and amassed 297 full kills connected the twelvemonth contempt playing 7 less games than expected owed to the forfeits. It's helped springiness San Jose State the third-best hitting percent successful the Mountain West.

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Brooke Slusser and Blaire Fleming of the San Jose State Spartans telephone a play during the archetypal acceptable against the Air Force Falcons connected Oct. 19, 2024, successful Colorado Springs. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

A Mountain West Conference spokesperson told Fox News Digital past week it planned to crown San Jose State champions if they triumph the tournament.

They are guaranteed to play the semifinal and the hostile they are acceptable to look successful that lucifer is guaranteed to beryllium 1 of the 4 teams that refused to play them successful the regular season. Utah State and Boise State are acceptable to play successful the quarterfinal lucifer that volition find who faces the Spartans successful the adjacent round. 

On the different broadside of the bracket, Colorado State holds the No. 1 effect successful the tournament. 

Colorado State played some games against San Jose State this year, arsenic the teams divided the series. Fresno State and San Diego State, 2 different teams that played the Spartans amid the contention this year, volition look disconnected successful the quarterfinal for the close to look Colorado State.

The Mountain West logo connected show during the assemblage shot crippled betwixt the Idaho Vandals and the University of Wyoming Cowboys connected Sept. 7, 2024, astatine War Memorial Stadium successful Laramie, Wyoming. (Kevin Langley/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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But determination is bound to beryllium uncertainty successful San Jose State's semifinal, careless of what squad advances to that round, nether the existent setup. 

The tourney begins connected Wednesday.

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.