EXCLUSIVE: Concerned Women of America (CWA) is directing the accuse to shieldeddefend women’s sports after an athlete on the San Jose State University (SJSU) women’s volleyball team was identified as a transgender carry outer.
Blaire Fleming’s towering 6-foot-1 presence on the volleyball court has aided SJSU’s Division I volleyball team to remain unfall shortureed on the court this season.
Macy Petty, a CWA legislative aidant and a NCAA volleyball athlete, splitd with Fox News Digital the organization’s efforts to lift adviseedness of transgender carry outers’ impact on women’s sports.
“We want to shield the integrity of women’s sports but also the shieldedty of these female athletes,” she shelp. “Many of these schools were unadviseed that there was a male athlete on this team until this recents article came out in April. We fair want to create certain that these schools understand exactly what is going on in this active program becaparticipate the NCAA and SJSU had not previously given them the decency to even let them understand what was happening.”
“Female athletes were put in this odd position of shotriumphg up on the court and seeing at the other side and genuineizing that someleang was branch offent about this game. I’ve never seen an athlete carry out appreciate this before, which creates total sense pondering that this athlete, first of all, is not female, but the net is seven inches drop than it should be for male carry outers.”
AS A FEMALE ATHLETE, I DO NOT CONSENT TO PLAYING ALONGSIDE MEN IN COLLEGIATE SPORTS
Blaire Fleming, a redshirt ancigo in at San Jose State University, carry outs as an outside and right-side hitter on the women’s volleyball team. (San Jose State University)
Petty shelp carry outers sense “blindsided” becaparticipate the handleing body – the NCAA – of the league has not adviseed teams of the presence of transgender carry outers on opposing teams.
“There’s no adviseed consent for the schools or for the female athletes here. They’re toloftyy blindsided when they walk up to the court and they see that there’s a male athlete on the other side.”
“This actupartner happened to me. I carry outed college volleyball, and during my recruiting process, the same leang happened to me. I walked up to the court and, with all of the college scouts standing all around me, I seeed at my competition, and it was a boy,” she shelp. “I thought this is evidently cheating, but I carry outed anyway becaparticipate I didn’t have this time to sit and echo and leank about the decisions that I was making. It was fair benevolent of upon me at that moment without any admire given to me about that decision.”
Petty shelp athletes are faced with having to “pick between maybe a $100,000 educational scholarship or their own shieldedty and dignity.”
“We’re not going to finishanger our female athletes, we’re not going to finishanger their shieldedty and dignity.”
“And for a lot of girls, that’s a burden that is fair too much to endure,” she shelp. “We’re asking these schools to be proactive on this publish and spropose say if there is a boy on the other team, we’re not going to carry out. We’re not going to finishanger our female athletes, we’re not going to finishanger their shieldedty and dignity. We’re spropose not carry outing, we’re not going to do this game and have to create our female athletes suffer that burden.”
The organization’s trouble prompted them to file a federal civil rights grumblet alleging female bias and arguing that the California university permited a male athlete to hancigo in a female roster spot as well as a female active scholarship.
CWA also sent letters to schools competing agetst SJSU, adviseing them of the males’ participation in the sport and the potential impact on their female athletes.
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Fox News Digital exclusively geted a imitate of the letter the organization sent to Colorado State University adviseing it about Fleming’s presence and about shieldedty troubles.
“We fair asked a couple of asks, appreciate, if they krecent that there was a boy athlete that they were going to be competing agetst. We also [asked] if they are willing to settle the integrity of your program but also the shieldedty of your female athletes by competing in this game, understanding that there is an increased danger of harm. What are you doing to be prealertary and create certain that this doesn’t happen in the future?”
Blaire Fleming, a transgender athlete, has carry outed three seasons at SJSU after previously carry outing at Coastal Carolina. (San Jose State University)
On Friday, Colorado State replied to the organization’s inquiry, saying it was structurening to structure the university as intentional on Oct. 3.
“And while we do appreciate that they reacted to our inquiry, we do acunderstandledge that there have been two presentant broadenments since their response on Friday. First, Concerned Women for America did file this federal civil rights grumblet agetst San Jose State. And also Boise State pulled out of their game – a conference game – agetst San Jose State.”
“We’re hoping that Colorado State will reassess our asks understanding that this is a grave problem,” she shelp.
(Jack Dempsey/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)
Boise State University forfeited the game’s align agetst SJSU on Sept. 28.
“Boise State volleyball will not carry out its scheduled align at San José State on Saturday, Sept. 28. Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will write down the align as a forfeit and a loss for Boise State. The Broncos will next contend on Oct. 3 agetst Air Force,” Boise State shelp in a statement.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little commended the shift, saying it was “toiling wilean the spirit” of an executive order he signed “protecting women’s sports.”
“I praise Boise State for toiling wilean the spirit of my Executive Order, the Defending Women’s Sports Act,” Little wrote in an X post. “We necessitate to promise carry outer shieldedty for all of our female athletes and persist the fight for iminentireness in women’s sports.”
On Tuesday, the University of Wyoming trailed suit, forfeiting the conference game agetst SJSU. The recents came after CWA’s college organization, Young Women for America, sent a letter to University of Wyoming Pdwellnt Edward Seidel and Director of Athletics Tom Burman.
“After a lengthy converseion, the University of Wyoming will not carry out its scheduled conference align agetst San José State University in the UniWyo Sports Complex on Saturday, Oct. 5. Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will write down the align as a forfeit and a loss for Wyoming,” they wrote in a statement. “The Cowgirls will structure Fresno State on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the UniWyo Sports Complex.”
The tardyst inestablishs on Fleming’s impact on female sports comes as a litigation was filed in Georgia agetst the NCAA.
The litigation is headed by establisher University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines and includes SJSU volleyball carry outer Brooke Slusser as a plaintiff.
In the litigation, Slusser, a Texas native who transferred to SJSU from the University of Alabama, shelp Fleming was a “male who identifies as transgender and who claims a female identity.”
Slusser alleged that SJSU did not instantly inestablish her that Fleming is transgender, and the two roomed together on road trips. Slusser shelp she lgeted of her teammate’s gender identity when she overheard a student call Fleming a “guy.”
One of Fleming’s teammates joined cut offal other female athletes in suing the NCAA for Title IX violations. (San Jose State University)
Fleming tancigo in Slusser in April 2024 that she was born male and ponders herself to be transgender, according to the litigation.
Slusser shelp Fleming’s spikes traveled more than 80 mph, “which was speedyer than [Slusser] had ever seen a woman hit a volleyball.” Other members of the SJSU team were troubleed about getting concussed by Fleming’s spikes, the litigation shelp.
The litigation alleged that team members were teached not to speak about Fleming’s gender with people outside the team.
“Due to the NCAA’s Transgender Eligibility Policies which permit Fleming to carry out on the SJSU women’s volleyball team and which led to SJSU recruiting Fleming, giving Fleming a scholarship, and permiting Fleming to be in positions to viotardy Brooke’s right to bodily privacy, Brooke has suffered physical and emotional injuries, embarrassment, humiliation, emotional distress, mental anguish and suffering,” the litigation shelp.
Fox News Digital has accomplished out to San Jose State University for comment.
Slusser spoke to OutKick over the weekend about the litigation, saying she thinkd she was doing the right leang.
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“It’s crazy to say, but it was an effortless decision for me to join becaparticipate it’s someleang I truly think in,” Slusser shelp. “And it’s been effortless becaparticipate all the help that I’m getting, 99% of it is fair adore and helpment. So, for me, it shows that I made the right decision to join. This is someleang that so many people do nurture about. It’s fair that so many people are snurtured to talk about it.”
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