The president of the State University of San José, Cynthia Teniente-Mson, has addressed an investigation into the University of the United States Department of Education on its management of a transgender volleyball player.
SJSU will be investigated for possible violations of title IX about its management of transgender athlete Blaire Fleming, the DOE told Fox Digital on early Thursday.
Lieutenant-Mson provided a statement to Pak Gazette Digital saying that the university is prepared to cooperate in the investigation.
“The State University of San José undertakes to ensure that all our students, including our athletes, are treated fairly, free of discrimination and provide the rights and protections granted under federal and state law, including privacy rights.
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“We follow the policies and regulations established by the System of the State University of California and the applicable law, and we recognize that sometimes these laws and policies can be intersected in complex ways. When navigating these frameworks, our approach remains to defend our defend Responsibilities when supporting our students.
“Recently, we were notified that the United States Department of Education has initiated a directed investigation related to Title IX in the light of the executive order of President Trump regarding the participation of athletics. As with any federal investigation, we will involve ourselves Completely with the process, we will continue established.
“While we adhere to the legal and regulatory requirements, the State of San José will continue to act within our authority to defend the values that define us as an institution. Our approach remains in our values, including the promotion of an environment that cultivates the Compassion, where each student has the opportunity to prosper.
Who is Blaire Fleming? SJSU volleyball players that dominates rivals and enrages women’s rights groups
Fleming played three seasons in the women’s team, 2022-24, as one of Mountain West batters, leading the team in murders. However, SJSU administrators allegedly retained the truth about Fleming’s birth sex of other players in the team, according to A demand Filed by 11 volleyball players from Mountain West and a former SJSU assistant coach.
Former co-capital of the Spartans Brooke Slusser He leads that demand and alleges that the administrators of the State of San José and the volleyball coach Todd Kress actively prevented him from knowing Fleming’s birth sex while they will assign the rooms with the transgender athlete in most road trips during his first season together in 2023.
The controversy that involved Fleming led five of SJSU’s opponents in 2024 to lose a total of eight games. The final loss was a semifinal of the Mountain West tournament against Boise State, which had already lost the Spartans twice in the regular season.
That loss sent Fleming, Slusser and Sjsu to the final of the conference, where they lost to the state of Colorado. The plaintiffs in the demand of Slusser submitted an emergency court order in November before the tournament in an attempt that Fleming withdraw from the competition and all losses for loss of the records of their opponents. However, federal judge Kato Crews, who was appointed by President Joe Biden in January 2024, ruled that Fleming could play.
The situation became so volatile that the team needed regular police protection for their matches at home and out. Slusser previously told Pak Gazette Digital that the experience was “traumatizing.”
“This season has been so traumatic that I don’t even have a more proud moment,” said Slusser.
The former Volleyball Assistant Trainer of the State University of San José, Melissa Batie-Smoose, who was fired from the program, was suspended from the program on November 2 after she filed a complaint of the Title IX against the University with respect to her alleged Management of the situation involved in Fleming. The complaint included accusations that Fleming had conspired with an opponent for former Sjsu Brooke Slusser co-firing to hit the face during a match in October.
The Batie-Smoose complaint alleges that Fleming provided an exploration report to an opponent to guarantee a competitive advantage of the state of Colorado and allegedly established a plan to establish an opponent with a transparent lane to take Slusser in the face during a match.
Slusser never shot in the face during that game, but Colorado State won in straight sets.
An investigation by Mountain West about the accusations of Batie-Smoose did not find sufficient evidence to discipline any player appointed in the accusations.
Slusser’s lawyer Bill Bock, then provided a statement to Pak Gazette Digital, insisting that the investigation had been “infected with bias.”
The transgender player of SJSU, Blaire Fleming, left, and her teammate Brooke Slusser went to a magic show and had thanksgiving in Las Vegas despite a continuous demand on Fleming being transgender. (State Athletics of Truong/San José)
“Because MWC’s investigation was inappropriate, and anything but exhaustive, and because the MWC closing letter is full of errors, the subigned is issuing this refutation and demands that the MWC be released immediately: (1 ) The research report prepared by its investigator (s), and (2) all documents related to the ‘exhaustive research’ of the MWC and on which the decision of the MWC not to continue was based more, “he said Bock’s statement.
Almost all SJSU 2024 players who have the remaining eligibility of the NCAA have entered the NCAA transfer portal, Pak Gazette Digital previously reported.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to prevent transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls sports. The NCAA announced Thursday that it is modifying its gender eligibility policy to align with Trump’s executive order.
