The president of the State University of San José, Cynthia Teniente-Matson, addressed an investigation into the university by the American department of education on its management of a transgender volleyball player.
SJSU will be investigated for potential title IX violations concerning its management of the transgender athlete Blaire Fleming, the DOE told PK Press Club Digital Thursday.
Teniente-Matson made a statement to PK Press Club Digital saying that the university was ready to cooperate in the investigation.
“The San José State University undertakes to ensure that all our students, including our students athletes, are treated fairly, without discrimination and offered the rights and protections granted under the Federal Act and the State , including protection protection rights.
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“We follow the policies and regulations set out by the California State University system and applicable law, and we recognize that, sometimes these laws and policies can overlap in a complex way. By sailing on these executives, our objective remains on the maintenance of our responsibilities while supporting our students.
“Recently, we have been informed that the United States Ministry of Education launched an investigation directed in title IX in the light of the decree of President Trump with regard to the participation of athletics. As with any federal investigation, we We will fully engage in the process, follow established.
“While we join the legal and regulatory requirements, the state of San José will continue to act within our authority to maintain the values which define us as an institution. Our objective remains on our values, including the promotion of An environment that cultivates compassion, where each student has the possibility of prospering.
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Fleming played three seasons in the female team, 2022-24, as one of the best Mountain West strikers, leading the team in eliminations. However, the administrators of the SJSU would have retained the truth about the sex of Fleming’s birth to other players of the team, according to a trial Placed by 11 Mountain West volleyball players and a former SJSU assistant coach.
Former spartans co-captain Brooke Slusser Directs this trial and alleys that the administrators of the state of San José and the volleyball coach Todd Kress actively prevented him from knowing the sexual relations of Fleming while assigning him rooms with the transgender athlete during Most road trips during their first season together in 2023.
The controversy involving Fleming encouraged five of the SJSU opponents in 2024 to lose a total of eight games. The final discharge was a semi-final of the Mountain West against Boisse State tournament, which had already lost the Spartans twice in the regular season.
This package sent Fleming, Slusser and SJSU to the conference final, where they lost against the state of Colorado. The complainants of the Slusser trial filed an emergency injunction in November before the tournament in order to have Fleming of competition withdraw and all the losses by deleted package from the records of their opponents. However, the federal judge Kato Crews, appointed by President Joe Biden in January 2024, judged that Fleming could play.
The situation became so volatile that the team needed regular police protection for their home and outside matches. Slusser previously told PK Press Club Digital that the experience was “traumatic”.
“This season was so traumatic that I don’t even have a proud moment,” said Slusser.
The former volleyball assistant coach of the State University of San José, Melissa Batie-Smose, who was released from the program, was suspended from the program on November 2 after having filed a complaint in Title IX against the University Regarding his alleged treatment of the situation involving Fleming. The complaint included allegations according to which Fleming had plotted with an opponent so that the former co-captain of the SJSU Brooke Slusser struck in a match in October.
The Batie-Smose complaint lightens that Fleming provided a screening report to an opponent to guarantee a competitive advantage of the colorado state and would have established a plan to set up an opponent with a clear track for Spike Slusser opposite during of a match.
Slusser has never been enriched in the face during this match, but the Colorado State won in two sets.
A Mountain West investigation into the allegations of Batie-Smose did not find sufficient evidence to discipline a player named in allegations.
Slusser’s lawyer Bill Bock then provided a statement to PK Press Club Digital insisting that the investigation was “infected with biases”.
The transgender player of SJSU, Blaire Fleming, on the left, and his teammate Brooke Slusser went to a magic spectacle and were Thanksgiving together in Las Vegas despite a current trial on Fleming being transgender. (Thien-An Truong / San Jose State Athletics)
“Because the MWC investigation was inadequate, and anything but meticulous, and because the MWC closing letter is riddled with errors, the undersigned emits this refutation and demands that the MWC is released immediately and publicly: (1) The Investigation report prepared by his investigator (s) and (2) all the documents related to the MWC’s “in -depth investigation” and on which the MWC’s decision not to continue was based, “said the press release Bock.
Almost all the players of the 2024 SJSU team who has the eligibility for the NCAA has entered the NCAA transfer portal, PK Press Club Digital previously reported.
President Donald Trump signed a decree on Wednesday to prevent transgender athletes from participating in female and girls sports. The NCAA announced Thursday that it changed its eligibility policy between the sexes to comply with Trump’s decree.
