By CatholicVote | Created at 2024-11-19 20:36:18 | Updated at 2024-11-21 12:55:53
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CV NEWS FEED // Utah State University is backing its female athletes who sued the Mountain West Conference over the Conference’s inclusion of “transgender” athletes.
According to The Post Millennial, on November 18, the university filed its petition to join the lawsuit, initially launched last week in the District Court for the District of Colorado.
As CatholicVote previously reported, volleyball players filed the lawsuit over the Conference’s Transgender Player Policy, which the organization created after teams protested the participation of biological male Blaire Fleming, a member of San Jose State’s team.
So far, all of the other plaintiffs are individuals, including Utah State’s volleyball team co-captain Kaylie Ray, 10 other players, and one coach, which would mean Utah State University is the only plaintiff in the suit that is an organization.
The filing came after Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, Utah Senate President Stuart Adams, and Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz encouraged the university to join the lawsuit.
On November 18, Schultz posted on his X account, “Female athletes deserve the right to a safe playing field, fair competition and equal opportunities. By intervening, Utah will send a clear message that these rights are non-negotiable.”
Ray responded to her college’s move to join the lawsuit, telling the Post Millenial, “Until today, college women athletes have stood alone against the combined discrimination of the NCAA and every college athletic conference in the country that follows the NCAA’s misguided policies that allow men to compete against women in college sports.”
She expressed support for the university’s move to back the women athletes and their rights.
“Hopefully, Utah State’s action will motivate a flood of schools and college athletic conferences to renounce the NCAA’s anti-women policies,” she added.
