According to Outkick, an online sports publication, the University of Nevada Reno’s women’s volleyball team held a vote among players and voted to forfeit the scheduled Oct. 26 match against San Jose State, because of SJSU’s transgender player Blaire Fleming.
Earlier, the Nevada athletic department said in an exclusive statement to OutKick that the team would play the scheduled match. But evidently the players have a different idea of what a fair playing field is.
“We, the University of Nevada Reno women’s volleyball team, forfeit against San Jose State University and stand united in solidarity with the volleyball teams of Southern Utah University, Boise State University, the University of Wyoming, and Utah State University,” the team wrote in an exclusive statement to OutKick.
“We demand that our right to safety and fair competition on the court be upheld. We refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes.”
Read the story, which was given exclusively to Outkick to break, at this link.
San Jose’s women’s team plays New Mexico, which lost to Nevada over the weekend.
In Alaska, Rep. Jamie Allard has been working to get legislation passed that reserves girls teams for actual girls, rather than allowing boys to play on the teams simply because they want to. Last year, her legislation died in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
