This site has previously reported on the forfeits that several colleges have accepted when their women’s volleyball teams refused to play against San José State University, which has Brayden Fleming, a male player pretending to be a female going by the pseudonym of “Blaire”. The women at the University of Nevada at Reno voted to forfeit, but the #woke^[1]From Wikipedia: Woke (/ˈwoʊk/) as a political term of African-American origin refers to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice. It is derived from … Continue reading administrators said that they could not do so, claiming that Nevada state law prohibited discrimination based upon sexual identity. But, in the end, UN-R transferred what was scheduled to be a home game to San José, and had to accept the forfeit when the volleyball players declined to show up.

SJSU player Brooke Slusser joined a Title IX lawsuit against Mr Fleming being allowed on the team, and of course, the University couldn’t dismiss her for that: she is a scholarship player, and the school would have been taking a punitive action against her. But then Associate Head Coach Melissa Batie-Smoose joined the lawsuit, and quickly ceased being Associate Head Coach.

San Jose State volleyball team ‘distraught’ over coach’s firing following lawsuit to protect women’s sports

Melissa Batie-Smoose was terminated after she filed a Title IX complaint to protect female athletes on her team

By Yael Halon, Fox News | Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | 6:00 AM EST

A female athlete on the San Jose State Spartans women’s volleyball team said they are “distraught” over the sudden firing of their assistant coach who spoke out against the inclusion of a transgender athlete on the team.

Melissa Batie-Smoose, the San Jose State Spartans women’s volleyball associate head coach, was suspended indefinitely after she filed a Title IX complaint against the school alleging that Blaire Fleming, the team’s transgender player, conspired with an opponent to help the team lose a match and injure teammate Brooke Slusser.

Has it been proven that Mr Fleming took this action? If there’s any evidence beyond he said/she said, they could dismiss him from the team. But, let’s face it: in the Pyrite State, the land of fruits and nuts, the Powers That Be weren’t going to look too hard!

In an appearance on “America Reports” Tuesday, Slusser said Batie-Smoose’s firing came as a shock to the female athletes who’ve relied on her as their only sounding board to air their frustrations about playing with a biological male on their all-female team.

“I think you can imagine, she was that one person that everyone felt like they could voice their opinion [to] and truly speak how they felt with the whole situation and feel comforted,” Slusser said. “And them [sic] taking that away from us … everyone felt distraught. And especially finding out minutes before a game, it was just a horrible situation.”

Batie-Smoose previously told OutKick that she was told not to speak to the media after she was terminated, accusing the school of trying to “silence people that are speaking up for their First Amendment rights and for what’s right.”

Further down:

The school was thrust into the spotlight of national partisan debate between gender identity rights and the sanctity of women’s sports over the course of a heated election year. Slusser made headlines after she joined a lawsuit against the NCAA alleging that San Jose State had not warned any of its recruits that it had a transgender athlete on the team. Slusser says she played two full seasons with Fleming, sharing a locker room and rooms on overnight trips without being told that Fleming was a biological male.

Either Mr Fleming has already had some form of ‘sexual reassignment surgery,’ or he had been very good at keeping himself concealed in locker and hotel rooms.

Miss Slusser’s statement does raise a conflict of privacy issues. The school could not legally tell potential recruits that he is male without his consent, but it also constitutes fraud on the part of the university not to tell recruits about his status; some recruits might have taken different decisions on signing with the school if they had been made aware of Mr Fleming’s status.

Now comes the money line:

“It’s sad that the school still chooses to prioritize one man’s needs over an entire team and be willing to get rid of half of our season because of it,” Slusser said on “America Reports.” “It’s amazing that other teams in the conference can stand up and just say, no, we are not doing this, and yet our school is still okay with having one person on our team that is causing all of these issues and yet will not get rid of them.”

One thing I have not seen is just how many of the team members are opposed to having Mr Fleming on the team. Miss Slusser’s statements make it sound as though many of the other players don’t want him there, but that’s not confirmation.

Transgenderism has created some irreconcilable differences.

• The right to the ‘transgender’ person’s privacy, in which he^[2]From our published Stylebook: ” In English, properly understood, the masculine subsumes the feminine. This means that, in cases in which the sex of the person to whom a pronoun refers is … Continue reading might not wish to disclose his status, conflicts with the right of others to associate, or decline to associate, with him in the expected privacy situations of restrooms, locker rooms, or other places.
• The desire of the ‘transgender’ person to be addressed with his desired name and pronoun references, which conflicts with the right of other people to address him by the names and pronouns consistent with his biological sex.
• The desire of the ‘transgender’ person to compete in things in which biological sex makes a real difference, which conflicts with the right of women and girls not to have to compete against men males.

Where is the middle ground between these things?