The lawsuit adds more fuel to America’s fiery debate over the participation of trans women in women’s sports. Like the lawsuit against the NCAA, it is funded by ICONS, co-founded by

A lawsuit filed on Wednesday asks for a San Jose State University volleyball player to be declared ineligible for the Mountain West Conference tournament because the player is reportedly transgender.

San Jose State University volleyball co-captain Brooke Slusser spoke out amid the school’s transgender athlete controversy after the associate head coach was terminated.

Current and former San Jose State women’s volleyball players are part of a 12-person lawsuit filed against the Mountain West and its commissioner alleging Title IX and First Amendment

The plaintiffs include SJSU co-captain Brooke Slusser, assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose and two former Spartans players.

This story was originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on Nov. 14, 2024. A dozen plaintiffs — including two Boise State University volleyball players — are taking an ongoing transgender athletics dispute to a federal court.

The match featured metal detectors outside Peterson Gym, additional security and police officers stationed behind each bench

A San Jose State University women’s volleyball assistant coach has left the team after reportedly filing a Title IX complaint about the squad’s male-to-female transgender player.

Shortly after the University of Wyoming’s decision last month to forfeit a women’s volleyball game against San Jose State due to the presence of a reportedly transgender player, associate head coach Becky Baker expressed concerns that a closely-divided team’s preferences about whether to play were being usurped by outside political pressure,

It became a campaign issue for President-elect Donald Trump, who made apparent references to San Jose State’s volleyball team at a town hall event in Georgia last month. He vowed: “We stop it, we stop it, we absolutely stop it. You can’t have it. You just ban it. The president bans it. You just don’t let it happen.”

Two Boise State volleyball players have joined a lawsuit against the Mountain West, Commissioner Gloria Nevarez, and four San Jose State officials. The lawsuit pertains to a transgender athlete on San Jose State’s volleyball team and alleges violations of Title IX and the players’ First and 14th Amendment rights.