EXCLUSIVE: The former co-captain of volleyball at the State University of San Jose, Brooke Slusser, ends his last college semester practically in his original state in Texas after a pretender harassment on the campus, online threats and mental health problems which arise from the scandal that shaken the school volleyball program last fall.
Slusser, who is currently pursuing the school on his alleged experience with the former Transgender teammate Blaire Fleming, told PK Press Club Digital that she and her family had made the decision because she no longer felt safe on the campus of the Bay region.
“I was walking, and I would have people who tell me things, as if I had a girl just screaming” F — You! “For me,” said Slusser. “I was in the elevator once in my apartment and some girls, as they came out, were like” Oh, it’s the girl, you should have slapped it when you had the opportunity “, so this type of thing happened.
“I literally did not feel safe. Whenever I left the house, I felt like people were just like looking at me, I felt like I had to look at my back whenever I was on the campus.”
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Brooke Slusser, Junior of the State of San Jose, is from Texas and began his university career at the University of Alabama. (Thanks to San Jose State Athletics)
The senior of the college first joined the Riley Gaines trial against the NCAA in September, alleging coaches and volleyball administrators of the SJSU retained information on the sexual relations of Birth of Fleming of Elle during their first season together in 2023, while being done to share changing and sleeping spaces with the Trans athlete.
In November, Slusser brought his own trial against SJSU and the Mountain West alongside 11 other conference players and one of his former coaches, alleging that Fleming plotted with an opposing player for having enriched him in front of a match. This trial also alleged that head coach Todd Kress tried to have the team withdraw from the team.
Despite this, Slusser continued to play for Kress and alongside Fleming, while being regularly frank by pleading against the inclusion of trans athletes in female sports. His plea drew the attention of national media.
However, with this attention, later, fear came for its safety. Slusser alleys that she received multiple threats leading to her decision to leave the CE semester campus.
“I also had threats, so you never know what people will do,” said Slusser. “People threatened to have confronted me on campus, and just these types of things.”
However, Slusser added that she had not reported most of these incidents to university administrators.
“I did not do it because everything that was going on, it almost became like a norm, so I can do nothing about what people tell me, and as long as they do not put my hand, they can say what they want,” she said.
San Jose’s state is currently under investigation by the American Department of Education for Potential Title IX violations that occurred during the treatment with the Fleming program, and the president of Cynthia Teniente-Matson University told PK Press Club Digital that the university would cooperate in the process.
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Brooke Slusser, # 10, and Blaire Fleming, n ° 3 of the Spartans of the State of San Jose, call a piece during the first set against the Falcons of the Air Force in Falcon Court to East Gym on October 19, 2024 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers / Getty Images)
During the electoral cycle of 2024, 98.71% of donations from San José State University employees went to Democratic candidates in the federal elections, while only 0.91% went to the Republicans, according to data from data from Open secrets.
A San Jose state spokesperson provided a statement to PK Press Club Digital addressing the situation of Slusser, insisting that the university would have taken measures if it has been reported. She simply chose to go home instead.
“The state of San José takes these questions seriously and would follow the complaints or the problems reported to us or we have information on,” said the press release. However, for Slusser, even if the university had taken measures to deal with threats, the mental assessment of experience with Fleming and its coaches weighed it too strongly to stay in California.
“It was probably the most traumatic thing I have ever gone through my life,” said Slusser. “I was so exhausted, and I have the impression that for so long, I was just running out of the adrenaline to try to pass through and I would honestly say that I was a little numb for everything for a while, and I really lost myself. I would like to consider myself a pretty happy person, and I was not that person for a while.”
Slusser is not the only one in last year’s team to have moved from the university following the scandal. Almost all the players of the 2024 team who made eligibility for the remaining NCAA entered the transfer portal shortly after the end of the season in December.
Former assistant head coach Melissa Batie-Smose, who was the only staff coach to denounce the treatment of Fleming by the University and filed a complaint for title IX against the school, did not renew his contract by SJSU after his expiration in January.
Batie-SMOOSE then underwent an incident of vandalism when his house was killed by a lead pistol earlier this month. Police did not determine a suspect or motivation, but Batie-Smose told PK Press Club Digital that she thought she was targeted for her recent advocacy against trans inclusion.
For Slusser, however, the money lining to the experience lies in the national impact it made in the conversation surrounding the inclusion trans into female sports and the recent legislative changes that have been brought to face.
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“I have experienced a lot to do that, but there is still no second when I guess it or I wanted that I never did it. It was difficult but I knew it would be … And there are still so many things that must be changed, but there is certainly a great step of baby in the right direction,” said Slusser.
President Donald Trump adopted the “No Men in Women’s Sports Act” on February 5 and a day later, the NCAA changed its eligibility policy between the sexes in response to order.
However, many states in the United States, including California, have refused to comply with Trump’s paranty so far and continue to allow trans athletes to participate in female and girls sports.
“I receive the DMS of Younger Athletes Weekly saying essentially” I go through that, I saw everything that happened to you, how did you manage it? “And it makes me so sad that even young women in athletics must travel so much,” said Slusser.
“Honestly, it makes me so angry because I just don’t understand how someone cannot understand it so hard … It bogs me that he even tries to fight for that when everyone knows it’s bad.”
The law on the protection of women and girls in sport is expected to have a vote in the US Senate in the next week after having died in the House of Representatives, while republican legislators aim to establish a stricter national precedent to tackle transcusion of sports in the sports of girls and women across the country.
However, the bill will need the support of several Democratic senators in order to beat the Flibustier and go to the Trump office.
