Posted on 12/04/2024 3:52:09 AM PST by karpov
The San José State University (SJSU) women’s volleyball team made international news this season, with coverage by the BBC, the Telegraph, Quillette, the New York Times, CNN, and ESPN. The reason for all this interest is that SJSU had a biological male on the team.
This offense against athletic fairness was not received kindly by many involved. Brooke Slusser (a team co-captain), assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose, two former players, and eight players from teams that forfeited games against SJSU have all filed suit. Teams from Boise State University, Southern Utah University, Utah State University, the University of Wyoming, and the University of Nevada all opted not to play SJSU due to the Spartans’ unfair advantage.
This lack of fairness is evidenced by the fact that nets for male teams are set at 7 feet, 11 5/8 inches, whereas nets for female teams are set at 7 feet, 4 1/8 inches, a nearly 8-inch difference. Male athletes, with their extra strength, can seriously injure female athletes, particularly when playing by women’s rules. In 2022, North Carolina high schooler Payton McNabb was struck by a ball spiked by a trans athlete, ending her athletic career and causing traumatic brain injuries that she is still struggling to recover from today. In Massachusetts, a male high-school basketball player caused injuries to female players from a rival school before forcing a forfeit.
The SJSU women’s volleyball season has now come to an end. SJSU nearly won the Mountain West Tournament after two judges ruled against injunctions to stop the school from playing with a male on its team. Due to opponents’ forfeits, SJSU advanced to the final round without playing a single game in the tournament.
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I think San Jose State should mandate a biological female as a quarterback for the football team to see how that plays out.... Maybe then they’d get it.
So SJSU lost in the final round?
This whole controversy says more about the idiocy of modern feminism than anything else. I can see the day when U.S. courts outlaw women’s sports as a blatant example of illegal segregation that violates civil rights law.
Yes
The behavior of those responsible for dozens of women not playing A WOMAN’S SPORT because of ONE MAN tells you everything you need to know what they think of WOMEN.
I wouldn’t feel safe sending my daughter to San José State University.
They were defeated by Colorado State.
They misspelt "man."
SJSU played for the win, when their team hadn’t played one game in the tournament? WTF?
Article says SJSU hadn’t played one game in tournament, before the final games.
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