The San Jose State women’s volleyball team has two wins left before play begins, as the University of Wyoming and Utah State both announced their women’s teams will forfeit their games against SJSU this month.
In just two weeks, four teams announced they would rather forfeit their games than face the Spartans and a player everyone believes is transgender. Blair Fleming.
The Wyoming Cowboys faced SJSU and Fleming in 2022. lost both games. No accidents related to the match were reported. at least One media outlet called Fleming “towering.” She is the second tallest player on the team. The tallest person is a cisgender woman.
san jose state Located at the top of the Mountain West Conference Undefeated so far. They will play Colorado State, the No. 2 team in the conference, on Thursday, ironically at the Rams’ “home”.Comprehensive outstanding game,” focused on promoting the university’s community principles and on-campus resource center.
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If SJSU wins that, it will be 11-0. in NCAA Division I Top 25there are only two undefeated teams.
The Spartans still have two games left, against Wyoming and Boise State, which have already been forfeited. What would happen if other schools joined?
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Of course this is confusing.
When was the last time an NCAA team won four games in a season because the opposing team chose to forfeit? When black players appeared in college sports in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, teams played against black players. Would you have been defeated without it?
Carly Webb expressed concern yesterday that San Jose State University may approach this issue the way some schools do. Black players were left at home, especially when heading south.
What was interesting was SJSU and its neighbor up Interstate 280, Stanford University. Boycotted in the 1970s and confiscated by BYU Because the school didn’t allow black players on the team.
It’s hard to believe that there will ever come a time when schools and teams refuse to play against other schools because they don’t want trans women on their girls’ teams.
But Mississippi State’s football coach in 1950 must not have thought that a major university would refuse to play an anti-black team or school.
But for now, the question of how to include transgender athletes is plaguing many schools, teams, coaches and athletes. And it’s shaking up Division I college sports.
That’s partly due to a lack of leadership. The NCAA’s current general policy outlook, to let each sport create its own rules, is better than the one-year HRT-fits-all approach pushed by some trans advocates years ago. I think it’s also excellent.
However, this kind of approach requires very good communication and a lot of open dialogue.
Moreover, this may be the most important part. There needs to be a clear message about eligibility and who is responsible for creating the rules. Those protesting Fleming’s inclusion should focus all issues on policy makers and rule makers. Not the players or the team.
NCAA President Charlie Baker should take on board the attacks from organizations and people mobilizing against trans women in women’s sports, and he should raise his hand to do so.
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