Volleyball player who forfeited to SJSU trans athlete speaks out on ruined season after taking 'unfair' losses

University of Wyoming women's volleyball subordinate Macey Boggs testified astatine a authorities legislature proceeding astir her squad forfeiting 2 matches to San Jose State successful 2024 during a contention involving transgender subordinate Blaire Fleming. 

Boggs, 1 of 11 erstwhile oregon existent Mountain West volleyball players engaged successful a lawsuit against SJSU and the conference, spoke successful enactment of a measure that would necessitate information successful diversion contention beryllium constricted to an athlete’s biologic enactment astatine commencement successful the state. 

But for Boggs, nary magnitude of authorities volition springiness her different accidental to vie successful the volleyball postseason. Wyoming's 2 forfeits to SJSU Oct. 5 and Nov. 14 outgo the squad a accidental to marque the Mountain West Tournament, and her vocation is present over. 

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"My squad was punished with 2 losses for refusing to play against a antheral jock connected an opposing team, an injustice that yet kept america from competing successful the Mountain West Tournament." Boggs said. "I was stripped of a accidental to play my last collegiate matches due to the fact that we faced a concern nary pistillate should ever person to face, either vie against a squad rostering a antheral jock connected a woman's assistance oregon forfeit the remainder of our season. No pistillate should person to look specified a decision.

"We merit to vie against athletes whose biology matches our own, not against a antheral standard." 

Sacrificing a accidental to vie for a title to guarantee the information of her and her teammates near a lasting content connected Boggs she won't soon forget. 

"My squad was told we didn't merit information connected the court, that we weren't important capable for just contention and that women should stay soundless for the payment of men," she said. "This contented is astir much than conscionable wins and losses. It's astir whether we respect women and girls."

Wyoming Republican authorities Sen. Wendy Schuler, a erstwhile assemblage athlete, is the sponsor of the measure and seat of the Senate Education Committee. Boggs urged the authorities legislators to walk the measure to support aboriginal women's athletes from akin situations. The measure passed successful a 4-1 vote. 

There are already 25 states with laws successful spot to forestall transgender athletes from competing successful women's and girls sports. A measure to forestall it connected the nationalist level has already passed successful the House of Representatives.

Boggs hopes her acquisition tin bring lawmakers to guarantee it doesn't hap anyplace else. 

"While it whitethorn beryllium excessively precocious for maine to decorativeness my vocation connected the presumption that my squad earned, it's not excessively precocious for the young girls coming up down us," she said. "It is fundamentally unfair, unsafe and a usurpation of women's rights to unit women to vie with oregon against biologic males." 

Boggs expressed her content that enactment is determined by commencement and "not by feelings." 

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The different plaintiffs successful the suit are SJSU co-captain Brooke Slusser, Alyssa Sugai, Elle Patterson, Nicanora Clarke, Kaylie Ray, Sia Li'ili'i, Sierra Grizzle, Jordan Sandy, Katelyn Van Kirk and Kiersten Van Kirk. Former SJSU adjunct volleyball manager Melissa Batie-Smoose, who was suspended by San Jose State aft filing a Title IX ailment alleging the assemblage gave favorable attraction to the trans player, is besides a plaintiff. 

Former NCAA swimmer and salient blimpish influencer Riley Gaines, who regularly organizes with different women's athletes affected by transgender inclusion and who is starring a suit against the NCAA implicit the issue, revealed her relationship of what the players went through, based connected discussions with them, during a proceeding successful Idaho Jan. 9. 

"They were emotionally blackmailed into believing they were the problem," Gaines said of the players, adding Boise State was the lone assemblage that showed administrative enactment to players who wished to forfeit. 

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"The overwhelming bulk of them did not privation this brought upon them. No 1 asked for this. This is not a concern they wanted to beryllium in," Gaines added. "These girls were terrified. They were terrified to basal tall. They were terrified to basal up for themselves. They were terrified of the things that would perchance travel if they simply said ‘men and women are different.’"

Marshi Smith, the co-founder of a ineligible advocacy group, the Independent Council connected Women's Sports, testified that the pistillate athletes who joined the suit felt threatened by retaliation from their assemblage if they spoke retired against transgender inclusion. 

"What volition they bash to america for speaking up?" the players often asked, according to Smith. 

Smith elaborated connected these players' questions successful a follow-up connection to Fox News Digital. 

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San Jose State Spartans players earlier a lucifer against the Air Force Falcons astatine Falcon Court astatine East Gym Oct. 19, 2024, successful Colorado Springs, Colo. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

"They’re often terrified of losing scholarships oregon being kicked disconnected their teams. At San Jose State, administrators exploited these fears by telling them to enactment quiescent due to the fact that it’s Blaire Fleming’s communicative to tell, not their own," Smith said. 

Louisiana Tech caput volleyball manager Amber McCray confirmed to Fox News Digital that her squad did not cognize astir the concern involving Fleming's earthy commencement sex, and it did not find retired until the time aft the lucifer via rumors from parents. 

LA Tech diversion manager Ryan Ivey suggested successful emails obtained by Fox News Digital that if officials had known Fleming's earthy commencement sex, the squad "would person sought "a antithetic outcome."

Slusser, who alleges she had to stock bedrooms and changing spaces with Fleming successful the lawsuit, has told Fox News Digital the acquisition has been "traumatic." 

"This play has been truthful traumatizing that I don't adjacent person a proudest moment," Slusser said. 

SJSU has besides acknowledged a caller exodus of volleyball players who entered the transportation portal. Nearly each remaining subordinate who is inactive eligible is looking to permission the program. 

"Student-athletes person the quality to marque decisions astir their assemblage diversion careers, and we person the utmost respect for that," a connection said.

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