As she is caught up in her own scandal, Melissa Batie-Smoose, the associate head coach of the San Jose State Spartans women’s volleyball team, raised the alarm about transgender inclusion in women’s sports.
Batie-Smoose was suspended for life after she made a Title IX complaint against the school. She said that Blaire Fleming, the transgender player on the team, worked with an opponent to help the team lose a match and hurt Brooke Slusser, another player on the team.
Fox News Channel heard from the coach about how bad things are in women’s sports.
“Safety is being taken away from women,” Batie-Smoose said on “America’s Newsroom.” “Women can’t play fairly.” We need more and more people to do this and fight this fight, because women’s sports will never be the same again.
After Batie-Smoose was banned, San Jose State told OutKick in a statement. “The associate head coach of the San Jose State University women’s volleyball team is not with the team at this time, and we will not provide further information on this matter,” the group said.
Batie-Smoose said she was told not to talk to the press after the punishment was over. “This is just another form of what San Jose State has been trying to do – silence people that are speaking up for their First Amendment rights and for what’s right,” she told OutKick last month.
It was important to her that she stood firm on the idea that only women should be able to play women’s sports.
The transgender issue has had a big effect on San Jose State’s season. Five teams that were supposed to play them have forfeited games.
