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Women’s volleyball players in Santa Rosa Junior College have recently presented to present a complaint of title IX about their experience with a biological transgender teammate.
Two of the female athletes signed by the complaint, Madison Shaw and Gracie Shaw, told Pak Gazette Digital about alleged physical damage caused by Trans Teammate.
Madison alleged, the past spring, he saw the transhole athlete a ball on the face of his teammate with such force that caused a brain shock.
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“I had so much force and so much impact with the head of my teammate that resulted in a brain shock, was out for two weeks of his second year, and was annoying. And obviously, the injuries happen, it is inevitable, especially in a contact sport, but this in particular could have been avoided by not having this male athlete in the team,” said Madison.
Madison said the teammate was former player Kiana Walker.
“I was telling me how irritating (it was) because I did not believe that this athlete belonged to our team and now that the consequences are suffering, it really bothers him. But, most of our team, unfortunately, does not see how we see it. They support the male athlete on the team.”
Meanwhile, Gracie claimed that she herself was beaten in the head by one of the trans athlete’s peaks.
“This male athlete hit me in the face in practice in August. I was ready, I knew that this male athlete was about to hit the ball, and I could not leave the road and the ball shot me in my face and it was much more difficult than any other blow that I had obtained from the other female athletes in our team,” Gracie said.
“It hurt a lot … it hurt so fast that I didn’t even have time to react.”
The two women, together with the teammate Brielle Galli, presented their complaint of Title IX against the School to the Office of Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education last week. Their complaint alleged that the school administrators retaliate against them when they spoke internally, in opposition to let the trans athlete of the team.
“We have told our coach, our athletic director and our Coordinator of Title IX from the first moment we want to play, we want to be part of this team, but we are not willing to take the court while a male athlete is in the team,” said Madison.
He added that the school administrators gave him a delayed response on whether they would honor his application and rejected it. Then, when Madison prepared a speech to tell his teammates that he would move away from the team due to the trans athlete, his coach told him that “he can’t.”
“Our coach sends me a text message that says’ No, he cannot tell the team his reasons not to take the court, and we really need to respect the privacy of the male athlete,” said Madison.
California female volleyball players refuse to participate together with their transgender teammate
Gracie added that they tried to tell the team about their decision not to play in a weightlifting session, but they were also prevented from doing so.
“Our coach, ironically, at 10 at night before our weight session, canceled the weights,” said Gracie. “And that basically felt that she was trying to silence us.”
Then, the two women tried to organize a zoom meeting to tell the team, they say. But the coach allegedly interfered at that meeting too.
“Our coach demanded that he had a link, and she told the team that this was not a mandatory meeting and the assistance was not necessary, and that made it feel that what we were trying to say was not very important and that the team did not have to come, and we felt that it was very bad,” Gracie said.
Santa Rosa Junior College provided a statement to Pak Gazette Digital in response to the two women’s statements.
“Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) is committed to promoting an inclusive and support environment for all students and employees. The district complies with the regulations of the Athletic Association of Community Colleges of California (3C2A), which govern the eligibility of students and participation in our sports programs,” reads the statement.
“We respect the legal privacy rights of all students and we cannot discuss individual circumstances. What we can affirm is that SRJC takes all reports seriously and responds through established procedures.”
California has become a focus of national controversies that involve trans athletes, specifically volleyball players, who date back to last year. The State Education Department is already being sued by the United States Department of Justice for its continuous policies that allow biological men to compete in the categories of girls and women in sports.
At the level of Division I of the NCAA, the female volleyball team of the State University of San José faced a controversy that involved the Trans Blaire Fleming athlete the past fall, which caused a federal investigation of the title IX on the school after President Donald Trump returned to the position earlier this year.
At the high school level, a trans athlete of the Women’s Volleyball Team of Jurua Valley High School has led two other players to move away from the team in loss, while at least four opponents have lost the games to the team.
