The Boise State University women’s volleyball team has opted to forfeit a game and take a loss than play a team featuring a man who identifies as a female. And who can blame them? It’s hardly fair for a women’s team to have a male player who is stronger and faster than the girls on the opposing team. This should be fairly obvious, but common sense is not so common anymore.
According to The Christian Post, the decision was made just a day before Boise State was due to play San Jose State University, and was announced in a statement last Friday.
“Boise State volleyball will not play its scheduled match at San José State on Saturday, Sept. 28. Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will record the match as a forfeit and a loss for Boise State. The Broncos will next compete on Oct. 3 against Air Force,” the Idaho-based university explained.
Although the university’s statement did not overtly mention the issue, several outlets have reported that the forfeit occurred due to SJSU having a man on their women’s team. The player at the center of the controversy goes by the name Blaire Fleming, and is a senior at SJSU who has played three seasons at the university after previously playing at Coastal Carolina University, Fox News reported. Idaho Gov. Brad Little, who signed an executive order in August prohibiting males from competing in women’s sports, took to X to commend Boise State for its decision.
“I applaud [Boise State] for working within the spirit of my Executive Order, the Defending Women’s Sports Act. We need to ensure player safety for all of our female athletes and continue the fight for fairness in women’s sports,” he posted on X.
One of Fleming’s teammates, co-captain Brooke Slusser, is one of a dozen female athletes who have filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association over alleged violations of Title IX. The class action lawsuit was filed in March by the group Independent Council on Women’s Sports and claims that the NCAA has violated Title IX by allowing men to compete in women’s sports.
Slusser went on to tell OutKick she decided to be part of the lawsuit because “it’s something I truly believe in,” pointing out that it was “something that so many people do care about,” adding that having Fleming on her team was “a really hard pill to swallow.”
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“I couldn’t comprehend the fact that there was a man on the team, and it was almost as if I was in denial for a really long time that this was happening,” Slusser explained. “So it was just really hard for me to wrap my head around.”
“And then, it still being a topic we weren’t really allowed to talk about. It was just kind of whispers behind closed doors that this is what’s happening, but no one’s really talked about it or addressed it,” she added.
No matter how many hormones shots you get or pills you take, a human being’s DNA does not change. It remains the same always and forever. You can get surgeries to mutilate your body, but you will never, ever be the opposite sex. It’s just an extreme form of live action role playing (LARPing). In the meantime, no one else should be forced to join a person’s mental delusions. Doing so could result in people getting hurt or in this situation, providing a sports team with an unfair advantage.