Suspended San Jose State University women’s volleyball associate head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose said that “safety is being taken away from women” and has continued to speak out against a trans-identifying male, Blaire Fleming, on the team.
“Safety is being taken away from women,” Batie-Smoose told Fox News’ “America Newsroom on Monday. “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.”
Batie-Smoose was suspended indefinitely from her job when she took the side of the women on the team who didn’t want to play with the biological male player, after she filed a Title IX complaint against her school.
In the complaint, the suspended coach alleged that the trans-identifying male player “conspired with an opponent to help the team lose a match and injure teammate Brooke Slusser,“ who has spoken out about the inclusion of trans players in…
