San Jose State University suspended the assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose on Saturday. This is amid the ongoing controversy around reports that one of its players, Blaire Fleming, is actually male.Batie-Smoose was suspended just two hours before San Jose state played against New Mexico, according to the New York Post.
Batie-Smoose had filed a Title IX complaint earlier in the week claiming SJSU's transgender-inclusion policy created a toxic environment for female athletes. She also reportedly accused the university of overtly showing favoritism for Fleming.
Macy Petty is the legislative strategist at Concerned Women for America. She tells AFN we are certainly seeing the depths of this anti-woman agenda.
"Not only are they placing these girls in danger and insulting their dignity, but they're also actively silencing anyone who stands for truth here. We've
known that they've pressured girls into silence, but now these administrations are going to great lengths to maintain their echo chambers of insanity, truly. They won't allow fans to wear any kind of merchandise with messaging supporting women's sports, and even more alarmingly, now they have suspended their very own staff who is willing to expose the sex-based discrimination happening inside the program."
Batie-Smoose on Monday told Fox News that she’s concerned for the San Jose State players but also for the future of women’s sports.
"Safety is being taken away from women," she said. "Fair play is taken away from women. We need more and more people to do this and fight this fight because women’s sports, as we know it right now will be forever changed."
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Petty said this is absolutely discrimination against women.
"Title 9 guarantees that women will be free from discrimination based on sex and educational opportunities, and that is what has given women like me the opportunity to enjoy college athletics. But now, we're seeing those rights stripped away by men competing in women's sports, not only placing us at an increased risk of injury, but also stripping away that opportunity for an educational scholarship or an opportunity to be rostered on a team competing on behalf of women's volleyball or whatever the sporting program might be. It is obviously unfair. It is unsafe. Men are biologically different than women, and sports reflect that."
