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Female Athletes File Lawsuit Against NCAA After ‘Blindsided’ by Transgender Volleyball Player
Female athletes have launched a lawsuit against the NCAA after the women were “blindsided” by the inclusion of an unannounced transgender player for the San Jose State University women’s volleyball team. Concerned Women of America (CWA) filed the lawsuit after the NCAA cleared 6-foot-one Blaire Fleming, who identifies as a woman, to play for San Jose this season without telling the rest of the conference that he would be playing, according to Fox News.
“We want to protect the integrity of women’s sports but also the safety of these female athletes,” CWA representative Macy Petty told Fox News.
“Many of these schools were unaware that there was a male athlete on this team until this news article came out in April,” Petty continued. “We just want to make sure that these schools know exactly what is going on in this athletic program because the NCAA and SJSU had not previously given them the decency to even let them know what was happening.”
“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,” Petty said. “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.”
Petty added that the female athletes feel “blindsided” by the NCAA and San Jose because they were never told of Fleming’s status and inclusion.
“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 exclaimed.
Petty added that it was not fair for women to have to weigh a $100,000 sports scholarship on one hand and their safety and dignity on the other.
Look at the power and height of this Male Player Blaire Fleming – from today's Iowa Hawkeyes vs. San Jose State women's volleyball game.
Is it fair for these women who have worked so hard to be dominated by a mediocre male player? @NCAAVolleyball @icons_women @WomenAreReals… pic.twitter.com/sk8Bpg13Aq
— Beth Bourne (@bourne_beth2345) September 6, 2024
An elementary school in the suburbs of New York City has been teaching a “gender curriculum” to kindergarten children in an effort to promote “inclusion” in the school. Hillside Elementary School, part of the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District, uses photos of children to introduce “different identities.”
The New York Post reports that the course includes showing kindergarten students photos of other children which are used to “introduce vocabulary to describe characters of different identities,” including teaching them about the terms “cisgender, transgender, and non-binary,” according to a message to parents regarding the curriculum.
“Our gender curriculum focuses on Hillside’s core value of respect and aims to center discussions on gender identity. The students will learn and discuss that there is a lot you can’t tell about a person by simply looking at them,” the kindergarten level course description reads.
“The students will look at pictures of children and talk about what they notice and what they think they know about the children just from the pictures. Using their observations, we will then take the opportunity to introduce vocabulary to describe characters of different identities,” the school writes.
The “identity” being taught to children includes discussing “gender and the pronouns that you use,” and that “as we learn and grow, the words we use to describe our gender identity can grow too,” as described by the school.
Fox News Digital reached out to the school about the curriculum, to which the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free District communications team said that the lessons have been in place for several years and are rooted in “Hillside’s core values of respect and fostering dignity for all students.”
“One 30-minute gender lesson is taught in each class one time per year. The classes are led by a certified educator, following a specific set of lessons designed to help students value the full diversity of their classmates,” Superintendent William S. McKersie said in a message to faculty and parents.
“The lessons have been created in alignment with the NYS Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework,” he wrote. The school noted that the lessons do not address sex education or sexuality. The school district said that while they usually have the courses posted publicly online, the gender lesson description has been taken off the website since going viral.
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