‘Unacceptable’: Feds find university ’caused significant harm’ to female athletes with its trans agenda

The federal government has investigated and concluded that San Jose State University “caused significant harm to female athletes” by pursuing a transgender agenda in its athletics.

A report from the Department of Education finds that the problem was the school’s faulty decision to be “allowing a male [Blaire Fleming] to compete on the women’s volleyball team – creating unfairness in competition, compromising safety, and denying women equal opportunities in athletics, including scholarships and playing time.”

“Even worse, when female athletes spoke out, SJSU retaliated—ignoring sex-discrimination claims while subjecting one female SJSU athlete to a Title IX complaint for allegedly ‘misgendering’ the male athlete competing on a women’s team. This is unacceptable. We will not relent until SJSU is held to account for these abuses and commits to upholding Title IX to protect future athletes from the same indignities,” Kimberly Richey, ED assistant secretary for civil rights, told Fox.

Further, the report said, “Among the department’s findings, it determined that a female athlete discovered that the trans student allegedly conspired to have a member of an opposing team spike her in the face during a match. ED claims that ‘SJSU did not investigate the conspiracy, but later subjected the female athlete to a Title IX complaint.'”

The school now has 10 days to comply with a series of agreements to rectify its Title IX violations, or risk “imminent enforcement.”

Multiple lawsuits already have erupted over the school’s actions, including by former SJSU co-captain Brooke Slusser who cases are against the NCAA, the Mountain West Conference and representatives of the university – for their decisions to force her to share changing spaces and bedrooms with trans teammate Fleming in 2023 without being told that Fleming is a biological male.

The school further suspended and refused to re-hire an assistant coach who complained about the Title IX violations.

The former assistant, Melissa Batie-Smoose, has her own lawsuit against the California State University system, which includes San Jose State.

She charges her suspension was “retaliatory” for her Title IX complaint over Fleming.

Part of the damages include that Slusser dropped out of class, losing her scholarship and was forced to pay for tuition and housing.

She is finishing her education at another location.

The federal government has told the school to release a public statement “that SJSU will adopt biology-based definitions of the words ‘male’ and ‘female’ and acknowledge that the sex of a human – male or female – is unchangeable.”

It further must follow Title IX by separating sports and intimate facilities based on biology, and “restore to individual female athletes all individual athletic records and titles misappropriated by male athletes competing in women’s categories, and issue a personalized letter of apology on behalf of SJSU to each female athlete for allowing her participation in athletics to be marred by sex discrimination,” the report said.

The school also must apologize to players on opposing teams who forfeited rather than play against a man.