“This kind of unity is what I (and many others who have worked far longer than me) have been pushing for over the past two years,” Gaines tweeted. “The gender ideology house of cards is crumbling, and it’s a glorious sight.”
Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives Mike Schultz also commended the Utah State and Southern Utah women’s volleyball teams.
To the Utah State and Southern Utah Women Volleyball teams: We stand behind you and are cheering you on! Thank you for standing up for not only yourselves, but for women across the country – current and future generations!
It’s time for the NCAA to take action to protect our…
— Mike Schultz (@mschultz_12) October 3, 2024
“We stand behind you and are cheering you on!” he wrote on X. “Thank you for standing up for not only yourselves, but for women across the country – current and future generations! It’s time for the NCAA to take action to protect our female athletes and preserve women’s sports. Thank you to the athletes and the universities for doing what’s right!”
Macy Petty, a Concerned Women of America legislative assistant and NCAA volleyball player, spoke with Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten about how players are feeling “blindsided” because the NCAA has not informed teams of the presence of transgender players on opposing squads.
“There’s no informed consent for the schools or for the female athletes here. They’re totally blindsided when they walk up to the court, and they see that there’s a male athlete on the other side,” Petty said.
“Female athletes were put in this odd position of showing up on the court and looking at the other side and realizing that something was different about this game. I’ve never seen an athlete play like this before, which makes total sense considering that this athlete, first of all, is not female, but the net is seven inches shorter than it should be for male players.”
Slusser said she joined Gaines and others in the lawsuit against the NCAA because she was not aware Fleming was transgender despite sharing rooms together on team trips.
“Brooke estimates that Fleming’s spikes were traveling upward of 80 mph, which was faster than she had ever seen a woman hit a volleyball,” Slusser’s complaint said, via the Cowboy State Daily. “The girls were doing everything they could to dodge Fleming’s spikes but still could not fully protect themselves.”
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