"SJSU caused significant harm to female athletes by allowing a male to compete on the women's volleyball team creating unfairness in competition, compromising safety, and denying women equal opportunities in athletics, including scholarships and playing time, Kimberly Richey, the U.S. Department of Educations assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement Tuesday. We will not relent until SJSU is held to account for these abuses and commits to upholding Title IX to protect future athletes from the same indignities."
"In its news release, the Department of Education said that to resolve the Title IX violations, San Jose would be required to issue a public statement to the university community that it will will adopt biology-based definitions of the words male' and female' and acknowledge that the sex of a human male or female is unchangeable. It also requires the university to separate sports and intimate facilities based on biological sex, restore to all indiv"
San Jose State University was found to have violated Title IX after allowing a transgender athlete to participate on the women's volleyball team. The Department of Education demanded that the university apologize to every player and acknowledge that male and female sex are unchangeable, and required adoption of biology-based definitions of 'male' and 'female.' The case drew national attention during Donald Trump's 2024 campaign when former co-captain Brooke Slusser joined a lawsuit against the NCAA and several teams forfeited matches in protest. The Department's assistant secretary for civil rights said permitting a male to compete on the women's team created unfairness, safety concerns, and denied women equal opportunities.
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