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Kaillie Humphries is a tax-paying Californian and she doesn’t approve of California State University’s (CSU) latest lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education.
As a veteran female Olympic athlete, now with an infant son, she is morally opposed to it.
“I love California. I don’t agree with its policies. I don’t agree with the lawsuit at all,” Humphries told PK Press Club Digital.
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Kaillie Humphries of the United States holds an American flag after competing to win bronze in the women’s bobsleigh monobob heat 4 at the Cortina Sliding Center during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, February 16, 2026. (Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)
CSU and San Jose State University (SJSU) are taking on President Donald Trump’s administration in a high-stakes legal challenge. The U.S. Department of Education investigated the school’s transgender volleyball players scandal and determined that SJSU violated Title IX due to its handling of the situation.
According to court documents, some players did not know that the trans athlete, Blaire Fleming, was a biological man.
“For me to hear or understand that there was ever a female athlete who wasn’t aware of her situation, it shows why Trump coming forward and protecting women’s sports is so important. Because it’s not just about physical safety, but also the mental and sexual side of everything,” Humphries said. “I don’t see a world where there should be only one man in a women’s sport.”
At the center of the conflict is 23-year-old Brooke Slusser. The former SJSU volleyball co-captain shared a court, locker rooms, hotel rooms and an apartment with Fleming before learning the athlete’s biological sex.
Slusser fought back and spoke out, waging legal battles against the NCAA, Mountain West and CSU over his experience.
“I support her,” Humphries said of Slusser. “I would say she did the right thing and she has a community of people who believe in what she’s fighting for.”
Liberals at X and TikTok launched a hate campaign against Slusser after a recent interview with PK Press Club Digital, in which she revealed that she shared secrets and, sometimes, beds with Fleming when they lived together in the same apartment.
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Humphries called the attacks on Slusser “atrocious.”
“I think it’s excruciating to see someone being attacked because they don’t feel safe in their environment and speaking out about it,” Humphries said. “I can only imagine what that feeling of the unknown would be like when you’re in an unfamiliar situation, and knowing that it affects his safety and moving forward will now affect his mental state. It’s a difficult situation to be in.”
“I really hope, regardless of people’s thoughts and feelings and beliefs, that sports should be a safe place. And to attack someone online because they just said they didn’t know about it and didn’t feel safe in that environment, it’s unfortunate… She can call me anytime if she needs help.”
The person Slusser holds responsible for the situation with Fleming is SJSU head volleyball coach Todd Kress, who recruited her while allegedly hiding the trans athlete’s birth gender from her. Slusser also alleged that Kress encouraged her to move into the apartment with Fleming, when another group of teammates was also looking for a tenant.
“Todd Kress knowing this person was a man and saying I’m going to ‘fit in better’ with these girls on my volleyball team couldn’t have been further from the truth,” Slusser told PK Press Club Digital.
Humphries has her own experience with an allegedly abusive coach and a program that failed to support her when she competed for Team Canada.
“I had a big problem with Bobsled Canada and the head coach that they had hired. And I was physically and mentally abused by the head coach. I was physically afraid for my safety,” Humphries told PK Press Club Digital.
“When I told our Bobsled Canada administration about it, they decided to support him as the coach that they had hired during that Olympic year, and not support me… They cut off my funding, they cut off my support, they took me off the team, and there was no way back. And because I was living in the United States and engaged to an American at the time, I called USA Bobsled.”
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Humphries had to start from square one and earn his spot on Team USA while undergoing a rigorous legal immigration process. But she did it, won gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics, won bronze at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, en route to becoming the most accomplished women’s bobsledder in history.
She made even more history on Thursday when she presented Trump with her Order of Ikkos medal, which is awarded to those who have a big impact on an Olympic medalist’s journey. This makes Trump the first American president to receive such a medal.
Humphries thanked Trump for his executive actions to protect women’s sports and make IVF more accessible to hopeful mothers. Despite his historic Olympic success, Humphries considers his son his crowning achievement. But as she raises her son in California, she says she’ll have to stay on guard.
“I thought about homeschooling,” Humphries admitted.
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Kaillie Armbruster Humphries, bronze medalist of the United States, kisses her son on the podium in the women’s bobsleigh monobob at the Cortina Sliding Center during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, February 16, 2026. (Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)
“As a mother, raising a son, he will grow up believing that women’s sport is for women… I will ensure that he is a true advocate not only for the sport itself, but also for women’s sport…
“Who knows what the state of California and/or the United States will be in when we have that moment, even five years from now, when he starts school.”
