Women's college volleyball team forfeits match against rival squad with transgender player

A women’s assemblage volleyball lucifer has been forfeited amid contention surrounding the beingness of a trans player.

Boise State announced the forfeiture of Saturday’s lucifer with San Jose State connected the school’s athletics website without offering a circumstantial reason.

"Boise State volleyball volition not play its scheduled lucifer astatine San José State connected Saturday, Sept. 28,’ work the statement. ‘Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference volition grounds the lucifer arsenic a forfeit and a nonaccomplishment for Boise State. The Broncos volition adjacent vie connected Oct. 3 against Air Force."

Meanwhile, the Mountain West Conference has been notified by the Independent Council connected Women’s Sports (ICONS) astir athletes' information concerns regarding Blaire Fleming, a redshirt inferior connected San Jose State who happens to beryllium trans.

The nonstop concerns from Boise State person not been straight addressed. However, 1 of Fleming's teammates, Brooke Slusser, has said Fleming admitted to being biologically male, per Outkick.

Fleming has been cleared by San Jose State to play for the school's women's volleyball squad for 3 seasons, joining the squad successful 2022. 

The NCAA has besides released a connection connected the game's cancelation that led to the Spartans grounds improving to 10-0. 

'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.'

Boise State is reportedly the 3rd schoolhouse to garbage a scheduled lucifer against San Jose State oregon to person considered pulling out.

Outkick has published portions of ICONS' missive to the Mountain West Conference.  

'Over the past fewer weeks, we person spoken with distraught student-athletes and their parents, coaches, and administrators passim the Mountain West Conference (MWC) regarding a situation successful MWC women’s volleyball,' the missive to the league read, per Outkick.