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Two women’s volleyball teams have forfeited games against San José State University, apparently in protest of the fact that a transgender woman reportedly plays for the university’s team, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Boise State University declined to compete against SJSU last Friday, and Southern Utah University did the same during a tournament Sept. 14.
SJSU had affirmed that all of its team members are eligible to play.
Idaho governor Brad Little, who spearheaded the state’s efforts to ban transgender athletes, celebrated Boise State’s decision, posting on X, “I applaud @BoiseState for working within the spirit of my Executive Order, the Defending Women’s Sports Act. We need to ensure player safety for all of our female athletes and continue the fight for fairness in women’s sports.”
Brooke Slusser, a co-captain for the SJSU team, has joined more than a dozen female athletes in a lawsuit alleging the NCAA’s policy on trans women athletes, which allows them to play on women’s teams if they have been on testosterone-suppressing medications for at least a year, discriminates against cisgender women and goes against Title IX. In court filings, Slusser said she told her coach and other officials she felt unsafe playing with her transgender teammate due to her powerful strikes. There is no record of the teammate seriously injuring another player.
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