San Jose State University’s volleyball team is the latest flash point in a dispute about transgender players in women’s sports.

Media blackout and court rulings dominate the conversation as San Jose State prepares for the Mountain West Women’s Volleyball Tournament.

The decision amid a national transgender controversy involving Blaire Fleming, a redshirt senior who joined the Spartans in 2022.

Judge rejects request to sideline a San Jose State volleyball player on grounds she’s transgender

A federal judge ruled that the player, who is at the center of a controversy over transgender athletes, can participate in a women’s volleyball conference tournament this week.

The suit was filed on behalf of players who claimed it was unfair and physically unsafe for them to play against a purportedly transgender athlete.

A federal judge ruled Monday that a transgender volleyball player at San José State University can continue to compete on the women’s team. The decision by Judge S. Kato Crews of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado came two days before San José State was set to compete in a conference tournament involving six other schools,

In the athletic arena, proponents and opponents of transgender women in women’s sports disagree not only on human biology and who gets protected under federal anti-discrimination law, but on

Brooke Slusser, a co-captain on the San Jose State Women's Volleyball team, is in her senior year and she's getting more attention for what she's doing off the court than her performance on it, but she wouldn't change that.