Utah State is fourth school to forfeit women's volleyball match amid San Jose State trans player controversy

The Utah State Aggies are the latest women’s volleyball squad to take not to enactment successful a scheduled lucifer against San Jose State University owed to a biologic antheral playing connected its women’s team. 

The assemblage issued a connection saying it would not beryllium participating successful its Oct. 23 volleyball lucifer astatine SJSU. 

"The University volition abide by Mountain West Conference argumentation regarding however this lucifer is recorded," the connection said.

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A volleyball nett during the Division III women's volleyball title astatine the U.S. Cellular Center Nov. 23, 2019, successful Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  (Jack Dempsey/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

A San Jose State spokeperson besides confirmed to Fox News Digital that the Aggies informed the squad the lucifer has been canceled, and Utah State volition beryllium assessed a nonaccomplishment owed to forfeit. 

Utah State would beryllium the 4th squad to forfeit a lucifer with SJSU if it's made official. Southern Utah, Boise State and the University of Wyoming each did so. None of the 3 schools antecedently provided a crushed down the forfeit different than knowing the consequences to their win-loss records. 

When Boise State forfeited its lucifer with SJSU, the NCAA provided OutKick with a connection successful response. 

"College sports are the premier signifier for women’s sports successful America, and the NCAA members volition proceed to beforehand Title IX, marque unprecedented investments successful women’s sports and guarantee just contention for each student-athletes successful each NCAA championships."

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Blaire Fleming, a transgender redshirt elder astatine SJSU, has been astatine the halfway of the arguable forfeits. SJSU is undefeated this season, and Fleming, astatine 6-foot-1, has helped the Spartans successful their efforts. 

Brooke Slusser, Fleming’s teammate, joined erstwhile NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines and different pistillate athletes who are suing the NCAA implicit policies regarding transgender athletes, claiming the existent strategy is compromising the fairness and integrity of women’s sports and putting women astatine risk. 

Gaines said she commended Boise State’s diversion section and everyone progressive successful the determination to forfeit its match, and she praised Utah State erstwhile seeing the connection earlier it was taken down.

Blaire Fleming, a redshirt elder astatine San Jose State University, plays arsenic an extracurricular and right-side hitter connected the women’s volleyball team. (San Jose State University)

"This benignant of unity is what I (and galore others who person worked acold longer than me) person been pushing for implicit the past 2 years," Gaines tweeted. "The sex ideology location of cards is crumbling, and it’s a glorious sight."

Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives Mike Schultz besides commended the Utah State and Southern Utah women’s volleyball teams.

"We basal down you and are cheering you on!" helium wrote connected X. "Thank you for lasting up for not lone yourselves, but for women crossed the state – existent and aboriginal generations! It’s clip for the NCAA to instrumentality enactment to support our pistillate athletes and sphere women’s sports. Thank you to the athletes and the universities for doing what’s right!"

Macy Petty, a Concerned Women of America legislative adjunct and NCAA volleyball player, spoke with Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten astir however players are feeling "blindsided" due to the fact that the NCAA has not informed teams of the beingness of transgender players connected opposing squads. 

"There's nary informed consent for the schools oregon for the pistillate athletes here. They're wholly blindsided erstwhile they locomotion up to the court, and they spot that there's a antheral jock connected the different side," Petty said. 

"Female athletes were enactment successful this unusual presumption of showing up connected the tribunal and looking astatine the different broadside and realizing that thing was antithetic astir this game. I've ne'er seen an jock play similar this before, which makes full consciousness considering that this athlete, archetypal of all, is not female, but the nett is 7 inches shorter than it should beryllium for antheral players."

NCAA volleyballs astatine the Division I men's volleyball title astatine the Walter Pyramid May 4, 2019, successful Long Beach, Calif. (John W. McDonough/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

Slusser said she joined Gaines and others successful the suit against the NCAA due to the fact that she was not alert Fleming was transgender contempt sharing rooms unneurotic connected squad trips. 

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"Brooke estimates that Fleming’s spikes were traveling upward of 80 mph, which was faster than she had ever seen a pistillate deed a volleyball," Slusser’s ailment said, via the Cowboy State Daily. "The girls were doing everything they could to dodge Fleming’s spikes but inactive could not afloat support themselves."

Fox News' Jackson Thompson and Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

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