Former President Donald Trump weighed in on the polarizing debate about transgender athletes on Wednesday, a difficulty that has engulfed San Jose State’s volleyball crew, saying if he’s elected he’ll use an government order to outlaw transgender rivals in any respect ranges.
“You just ban it,” Trump mentioned throughout a city corridor that aired Wednesday on “The Faulkner Focus” on Fox Information Channel. “The president bans it. You simply don’t let it occur. Not an enormous deal.”
Trump took quite a lot of questions from an all-women’s viewers in the course of the hour-long “Women’s Issues” particular that was recorded on Tuesday in Georgia. The subject of transgender athletes got here up when one of many viewers members mentioned she was involved for her granddaughters’ security in locker rooms and with sports activities groups.
Whereas Trump didn’t particularly identify San Jose State in the course of the city corridor, he appeared to level to a play within the Spartans’ dwelling match in opposition to San Diego State on Oct. 10.
With the Spartans trailing 22-12 within the second set of a three-set sweep, a SJSU participant spiked a ball that, in a considerably widespread incidence within the sport, caromed off the higher physique of an Aztec participant and despatched her to the ground. The participant not solely stored the play alive with the bump, however obtained up instantly and made one other bump earlier than SJSU in the end earned the purpose.
Video of the play floor with headlines suggesting the SDSU participant was hit within the face. Trump gave the impression to be referencing that play in the course of the city corridor.
“I noticed the slam, it was a slam. I by no means noticed a ball hit so laborious, hit the woman within the head,” Trump mentioned. “Other people, even in volleyball, they’ve been really hurt badly. Women playing men… but we stop it. We absolutely stop it.”
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San Diego State officers responded Wednesday by saying their participant was not hit within the face or injured on the play.
“This did not happen,” SDSU director of athletic communications Jamie McConeghy mentioned in a press release to the San Francisco Chronicle. “The ball hit her in the shoulder. She was uninjured and did not miss a play.”
In line with the Chronicle, which has video of the play, SDSU has “called for multiple corrections from media outlets.”
San Jose State participant Brooke Slusser joined a lawsuit earlier this month and mentioned she has a transgender teammate who, she contended, has bodily benefits over different ladies athletes. This information group just isn’t figuring out the participant named within the lawsuit.
Within the lawsuit, SJSU’s Slusser mentioned her transgender teammate hits tougher and jumps larger than the remainder of these on the crew, suggesting the teammate’s spikes attain speeds upwards of 80 MPH. Slusser mentioned within the lawsuit that earlier this season her teammate “smashed the ball into the face of a woman on the University of Delaware team’s back line, knocking the opposing player to the ground.”
4 colleges have refused to play the San Jose State ladies’s volleyball crew for unspecified causes, and a fifth college – Nevada – nonetheless would possibly. Wolf Pack gamers introduced Monday on a conservative website online that they refuse to play the Spartans of their match scheduled for Oct. 26 in Reno as a stand in opposition to “any match that advances injustice against female athletes.” The college introduced a number of hours later that it didn’t help the gamers’ stance and intends to host the match.
Monday night time Slusser, through the social media platform X, saluted the Wolf Pack gamers for voicing their objections about taking part in the match in opposition to the Spartans.
Slusser wrote: “Round of applause to the girls of the @NevadaWolfPack volleyball team. Deciding to go against what the school was forcing on you as young women and taking a stand for what you believe takes courage! Another great step in the right direction for women’s sports!”
The Spartans are 9-3 total and 4-3 in Mountain West play. SJSU has misplaced the previous three matches it has performed, together with the SDSU match. They’re scheduled to play at New Mexico on Thursday and at Air Drive on Saturday.
