The plaintiffs include SJSU co-captain Brooke Slusser, assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose and two former Spartans players.

It became a campaign issue for President-elect Donald Trump, who made apparent references to San Jose State’s volleyball team at a town hall event in Georgia last month. He vowed: “We stop it, we stop it, we absolutely stop it. You can’t have it. You just ban it. The president bans it. You just don’t let it happen.”

The San Jose State women’s volleyball team won a match Saturday without its associate head coach on the sideline after she reportedly filed a complaint about how the team had handled having a transgender player on its roster.

Shortly after the University of Wyoming’s decision last month to forfeit a women’s volleyball game against San Jose State due to the presence of a reportedly transgender player, associate head coach Becky Baker expressed concerns that a closely-divided team’s preferences about whether to play were being usurped by outside political pressure,

The match featured metal detectors outside Peterson Gym, additional security and police officers stationed behind each bench

According to Idaho Ed News two Bise State volleyball players are among a dozen plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against San Jose State University for an ongoing

Current and former San Jose State women’s volleyball players are part of a 12-person lawsuit filed against the Mountain West and commissioner Gloria Nevarez alleging Title IX and First Amendment violations amid the controversy surrounding transgender Blaire Fleming’s roster status,

Eleven female athletes and a coach have asked a court to bar a transgender player from competing in the Mountain West Volleyball Championship, arguing that allowing a male-born athlete to compete in women’s collegiate sports violates Title IX.

The San Jose State women’s volleyball team is reeling after the firing of Assistant Coach Melissa Batie-Smoose following her legal challenge over transgender athlete inclusion.