Gop Lawmaker Calls Sjsu's Latest Chapter In Trans Athlete Controversy 'highly Disturbing'

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., reacted connected Monday pursuing a Fox News Digital study that the Mountain West Conference hired nan aforesaid rule patient to analyse nan transgender jock Brooke Fleming’s misconduct allegations that nan convention was utilizing to take sides nan athlete's eligibility for nan convention tourney successful court.

Kiley had been outspoken against transgender athletes competing against girls and women successful sports and was astatine likelihood pinch California Gov. Gavin Newsom arsenic nan Justice Department revenge a suit against nan authorities complete alleged Title IX violations.

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SJSU trans subordinate Blaire Fleming and teammate Brooke Slusser went to a magic show and had Thanksgiving together successful Las Vegas contempt an ongoing suit complete Fleming being transgender. (Thien-An Truong/San Jose State Athletics)

"The absurdity and unfairness of forcing young women and girls to compete against males besides poses evident information risks," Kiley said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "The revelations from Fox News Digital are highly disturbing, but sadly unsurprising: nan aforesaid institutions that willingly taxable student-athletes to nan consequence of beingness harm are failing to adequately respond erstwhile those harms materialize. 

"Fortunately, nan tide has decisively turned against nan backwards politicians and organizations who person defied communal consciousness and biological reality successful their effort to undermine hard-won civilian authorities protections for female athletes."

Former San Jose State women’s volleyball subordinate Brooke Slusser was nan evident target of an alleged scheme by Fleming and a Colorado State subordinate to person Slusser spiked successful nan look during an Oct. 3 game. Slusser was ne'er spiked successful nan look during that game. Fleming had 10 errors arsenic SJSU mislaid to Colorado State successful consecutive sets. 

Fox News Digital antecedently reported that Mountain West hired nan patient Willkie Farr & Gallagher (WFG) to analyse nan allegations.

The Mountain West hired nan patient to grip nan investigation successful nan aforesaid period that nan aforesaid patient represented nan convention to protect Fleming's eligibility successful a petition for preliminary injunction to person nan trans jock disqualified from women's title and nan convention tournament.

The investigation was closed aft 3 days, pinch Fleming being cleared of impropriety. But nary grounds was ever disclosed by nan conference, arsenic Fleming went connected to decorativeness retired nan season, gain all-conference honors and moreover led SJSU each nan measurement to nan Mountain West title game.

California Rep. Kevin Kiley gave an exclusive connection to Fox News Digital. (Joseph A. Wulfsohn/Fox News Digital)

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The WFG lawyer who led nan investigation into allegations against Fleming, Tim Heaphy, later offered nan schoolhouse ineligible counsel to thief it navigate a national Title IX investigation complete nan aforesaid situation, arsenic seen successful nationalist records obtained by Fox News Digital. The connection was declined.

None of WFG's attorneys person been accused of violating immoderate applicable rules of master conduct.

Fox News Digital reached retired to nan patient Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, nan Mountain West Conference and nan California State University strategy for a consequence connected Kiley’s statement.

Slusser said precocious past period astir nan caller findings successful an quality connected Fox News Channel’s "America Reports."

"It’s evident erstwhile this was put retired into nan nationalist that there’s truthful overmuch bias successful this situation, and they’re trying to conscionable expanse these things nether nan rug and not person to woody pinch it erstwhile there’s evident problems going connected each complete nan place," she said.

"They request to beryllium held accountable for utilizing nan aforesaid rule patient and not doing a thorough investigation because Title IX was built to protect women, and they’re evidently deciding to protect nan man successful this business erstwhile they were blatantly trying to harm a female jock astatine their school, and they’re still backing this antheral jock and that’s conscionable incorrect each complete nan place. And there’s schools each complete nan federation doing this, they’re conscionable not getting nan spotlight it deserves."

Slusser yet hopes that nary different female athletes person to woody pinch nan aforesaid things she experienced.

Brooke Slusser #10 and Blaire Fleming #3 of nan San Jose State Spartans telephone a play during nan first group against nan Air Force Falcons astatine Falcon Court astatine East Gym connected October 19, 2024 successful Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

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"The extremity is to ne'er person to fto different female jock spell done what I did. The athletics was ruined for maine my elder season," she said. "So, nan extremity is to springiness backmost to those young girls who had nan aforesaid dream that I did but to beryllium capable to emotion it nan full time."

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