The University of Nevada, Reno officiassociate proclaimd on Friday that its women’s volleyball team will forfeit its game agetst San Jose State on Saturday.
Nevada is the fifth team to forfeit its align agetst San Jose State amid an ongoing national dispute over a transgfinisher perestablisher on the team and another perestablisher joind in a legal case over never being telderly that perestablisher was a bioreasonable male, according to the legal case.
Nevada cited not having enough perestablishers to vie in the align for forfeiting after its perestablishers transmited a desire and intention not to vie agetst San Jose State.
“Due to not having enough perestablishers to vie, the University of Nevada women’s volleyball team will not perestablish its scheduled Mountain West Conference align at San José State on Saturday, Oct. 26. Per Mountain West Conference policy, the align will be recorded as a conference loss for Nevada,” Nevada proclaimd in a statement timely on Friday morning.
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GOP Senate honestate Sam Brown, left, poses with Nevada’s Sia Liilii, cgo in right, and establisher Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. (Sam Brown Campaign)
San Jose State replyed to the forfeit in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Our athletes all adhere with NCAA and Mountain West Conference policies and they are eligible to perestablish under the rules of those organizations. We will persist to consent meabraves to rank the health and protectedty of our students while they chase their geted opportunities to vie,” the statement read.
Nevada perestablishers, including team captain Sia Liillii, spoke out agetst the notion of competing agetst a transgfinisher perestablisher in the weeks directing up to the call offation after voting to forfeit it on Oct. 14. The perestablishers even went so far as to schedule a press conference alengthyside OutKick contributor and women’s athlete activist Riley Gaines to go on at the same time as the game on Saturday.
However, Nevada would not officiassociate forfeit the game until Friday morning, citing state law.
“The university made the decision not to declare a forfeiture and shift forward with presenting the align as scheduled based on disjoinal factors. As a accessible university, the university is legassociate prohibitned by Section 24 of the Nevada Constitution and other laws and regulations to declare a forfeit for reasons roverhappinessed to gfinisher identity or transmition,” a Nevada spokesperson previously telderly Fox News Digital.
The Nevada state constitution was changed in 2022 when Nevada voted to adchoose the Equal Rights Amfinishment, which inserted gfinisher identity to the catalog of protections. Nevada state Sen. Pat Spearman, a Democrat from North Las Vegas who co-backed the bill to get it on the ballot, shelp the law has helped transgfinisher people protect their identity.
On Tuesday, both Nevada and San Jose State proclaimd that the align would be shiftd from Nevada’s campus in Reno to San Jose State’s campus in the Bay Area in California, claiming the location change was “in the best interest of both programs and the well-being of the student-athletes, coaches, fit staff and spectators.”
San Jose State would have necessitateed to be at the site of the align, however, in order to get a forfeit triumph if no Nevada perestablishers finish up perestablishing. By moving the site of the align to the San Jose State campus, then the Spartan perestablishers would not have to originate the trip to Nevada in order to protected the forfeit triumph. So, by making this change, San Jose State will get to claim a forfeited triumph if no Nevada perestablishers pick to perestablish, without leaving their home state.
Now that the align has been officiassociate forfeited, no one will have to do any traveling.
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From front left to right, San Jose State setter Brooke Slusser commemorates after scoring a point with libero Randilyn Reeves, outside hitter Blaire Fleming and libero Alessia Buffagni during the first set of an NCAA college volleyball align agetst Colorado State, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Fort Collins, Colo. (AP Pboilingo/David Zalubowski)
Nevada unites Southern Utah, Boise State, Wyoming and Utah State, which all have officiassociate forfeited their scheduled games agetst San Jose State.
San Jose State perestablisher Brooke Slusser unitecessitate a legal case headed by OutKick present and establisher collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines agetst the NCAA due to its policies on gfinisher identity. Slusser unitecessitate this legal case becaemploy she claims that she has had to dispense a court, a locker room and even a room on overnight trips with her teammate Blaire Fleming without having ever been telderly that Fleming was a bioreasonable male.
Security troubles and dangers agetst San Jose State perestablishers have made traveling for alignes a dangerous finisheavor for the lady Spartans. San Jose State previously verifyed to Fox News Digital that police protection had been alloted to the team, lowly after getting the first news of an opponent forfeiting, when Southern Utah proclaimd that it would not perestablish its align agetst the Spartans in September.
“One of my teammates got a DM, modestassociate saying that she, and then my team, necessitateed to protect my distance from me on gameday agetst Colorado State, becaemploy it wasn’t going to be a outstanding situation for me to be in and that my team necessitateed to protect their distance,” Slusser telderly Fox News Digital in an exclusive intersee. “They necessitateed to protect their distance from me during the game, becaemploy someleang was going to happen to me.
“This was the first physical danger when we could easily see that they wanted to physicassociate harm one of us.”
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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines react after finishing tied for 5th in the 200 Freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18th, 2022, at the McAuley Aquatic Cgo in in Atlanta, Georgia. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
In June, a survey carry outed by NORC at the University of Chicago asked replyents to weigh in on whether transgfinisher athletes of both intimacyes should be permitted to join in sports leagues that correply to their likered gfinisher identity instead of their bioreasonable intimacy.
Sixty-five percent answered that it should either be never or unwidespreadly permited. When those polled were asked definiteassociate about grown-up transgfinisher female athletes competing on women’s sports teams, 69% resistd it.
The United Nations freed study discoverings that say proximately 900 bioreasonable females have descenden low of the podium becaemploy they were beaten out by transgfinisher athletes.
The study, titled “Violence agetst women and girls in sports,” shelp that more than 600 athletes did not medal in more than 400 competitions in 29 separateent sports, totaling over 890 medals, according to alertation geted up to March 30.
“The swapment of the female sports catebloody with a unitecessitate-intimacy catebloody has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, when competing agetst males,” the alert shelp.
Former Pdwellnt Donald Trump has gone so far as to finishorse for a prohibit, in a recent town hall event on Fox News.
“We’re not going to let it happen,” Trump shelp of the rerent. “We stop it, we stop it, we absolutely stop it. We can’t have it.
“You fair prohibit it. The pdwellnt prohibits it. You don’t let it happen. It’s not a big deal.”
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