Idaho Gov. Brad Little praised the Boise State women's volleyball team for forfeiting a game against a team featuring a transgender player.
As Blaze News previously reported, San Jose State's women's volleyball team is off to its best start in program history with a 6-foot-1 male player on the team.
The governor of Idaho responded to a statement from Boise State Athletics announcing that the team “will not play the game scheduled for Saturday, September 28th at San Jose State University.”
The school has not provided an official reason.
“I commend Boise State for working in the spirit of my executive order, the Defending Women in Sports Act,” the governor said. I wrote. “We need to ensure the safety of all female athletes and continue the fight for fairness in women’s sports.
“Idaho’s hardworking and talented female athletes deserve a level playing field.”
The governor recently issued an executive order directing the state Board of Education to follow all rules regarding women-only participation in girls' sports.
The executive order defending the Women's Sports Act says it guarantees Idaho's female students “the greatest possible equal opportunity in sports and school.” Fox News.
Republican Sen. Jim Risch also praised Boise State's move.
“Kudos to Boise State for standing up for women in sports! Idaho's hardworking and talented female athletes deserve a level playing field where they can compete and win,” the senators wrote. Ta. ×.
Boise State became the second school to forfeit its game against SJSU.
Southern Utah forfeited the game after the team informed tournament officials that it did not want to play an undefeated team. It has not been confirmed whether transgender athlete Blair Fleming is the reason. cancelBut.
SJSU and its transgender athletes; Blair Fleminghas been surrounded by controversy for weeks, with several sports figures speaking out. The mother of a Nevada Wolfpack player recently expressed concerns about her daughter playing against the male player.
“They've worked so hard for this, and to have that stripped away and play with male athletes is unthinkable,” said April Chaney, an Idaho mother. daily signal.
Cheney's daughter Carissa Cheney is scheduled to play against SJSU on October 26th.
Similarly, Fleming's SJSU teammate Brooke Slusser also agreed to join a lawsuit against the NCAA for failing to protect women in sports.
Slusser shared an apartment with male players (and other women), and was sometimes placed in the same room as Fleming during road games.
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