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The female volleyball players of the Santa Rosa Junior College recently presented themselves to file a complaint for title IX concerning their experience with a organic transgender teammate.
Two of the female athletes who signed the complaint, Madison Shaw and Gracie Shaw, told PK Press Club Digital about the alleged physical damage caused by the Trans teammate.
Madison said that, last spring, she saw the Trans athlete raising a ball on the face of her high teammate that it caused a concussion.
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“It had so much strength and so much impact with the head of my teammate that it led to a concussion, she was absent for two weeks of her second year, and she was upset. And obviously, injuries occur, it is inevitable, especially in a contact sport, but he could particularly have been prevented from not having this male athlete in the team,” said Madeison.
Madison said the teammate was the former player Kiana Walker.
“She told me how exasperating (it was) because she did not believe that this athlete belonged to our team and now that she suffers, it really bothers her. But, a majority of our team, unfortunately, do not see him as we see. They support the male athlete in the team.”
Meanwhile, Gracie said that she had herself been struck by one of the points of the Trans athlete.
“I myself was struck in the face by this male athlete in practice in August. I was ready, I knew that this male athlete was about to hit the ball, and I could not keep away from the way and that the ball had made me feel in the face and it was much more difficult than any other time that I had obtained other female athletes from our team,” said Gracie.
“It hurt badly … It came to my face so fast that I didn’t even have time to react.”
The two women, alongside her teammate Brielle Galli, filed their complaint for title IX against school with the civil rights office of the US Ministry of Education. Their complaint allegedly alleged that school administrators retaliated against them when they spoke internally, in opposition to the leash the trans athlete within the team.
“We said to our coach, sports director and our title IX coordinator from the start that we want to play, we want to be part of this team, but we are not ready to take the field while a male athlete is part of the team,” said Madison.
She added that the school administrators gave her a delayed response to find out if they would honor her request and refused her. Then, when Madison prepared a speech to tell her teammates that she would move away from the team because of the Trans athlete, her coach told her that she “could not”.
“Our coach sends me an SMS saying:” No, you cannot tell the team your reasons for not having taken the court, and we must really respect the intimacy of the male athlete, “said Madison.
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Gracie added that they had tried to talk about the team of their decision not to play during a weightlifting session, but they were prevented from doing so too.
“Our coach, ironically, at 10 a.m. before our weight session, canceled the weights,” said Gracie. “And it essentially thought that she was trying to silence us.”
Then the two women tried to set up a zoom meeting to tell the team, they say. But the coach would also have interfered at this meeting.
“Our coach demanded that she have a link, and she told the team that it was not a compulsory meeting and that attendance was not necessary, and that had the impression that what we were trying to say was not very important and that the team had not come to come, and we thought it was very bad,” said Gracie.
The Santa Rosa Junior College made a statement to PK Press Club Digital in response to the claims of the two women.
“The Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) is committed to promoting an inclusive environment and supporting all students and employees. The district complies with the regulations of California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A), which govern the eligibility for students and participation in our sports programs,” said the press release.
“We respect the legal rights of the privacy of all students and cannot discuss individual circumstances. What we can affirm is that SRJC takes all reports seriously and responds through established procedures.”
California has become a home of national controversies involving Trans athletes, in particular volleyball players, dating from last year. The State Ministry of Education is already prosecuted by the United States Ministry of Justice for its continuous policies which allow organic men to participate in the categories of girls and women in sport.
At the NCAA division I level, the San Jose State Volleyball Women’s Volleyball team faced a controversy involving the Trans Blaire Fleming athlete last fall, which caused a federal investigation into title IX on school after President Donald Trump returned to the post earlier this year.
At the secondary level, a Trans athlete for the Volleyball Team of the Girls of the Lycée de Jurupa Valley prompted two other players to move from the team in crop, while at least four opponents have lost games to the team.
