What San José State Volleyball Teaches Us About the Debate Over Trans Athletes

San José State University’s women’s volleyball season ended not with a bang but a whimper. The team lost to Colorado State University in the Mountain West Conference championship game on Nov. 30, after Boise State University’s team refused to play SJSU in a semifinal game and gave up their place in the tournament. It was the third time Boise State declined to play SJSU this season; four other teams also forfeited games against the Spartans, seemingly in opposition to one SJSU player who conservative media outlets have reported is transgender. The first article on the subject, published by Reduxx, which describes itself as a feminist news site, claimed that the athlete and the institution had withheld her biological sex from her teammates.