A judge has rejected a request to block a San Jose State women’s volleyball team member from playing in a conference tournament on grounds that she’s transgender

A last-minute appeal by a San Jose State University women’s volleyball player to get her transgender teammate banned from a regional championship series starting Wednesday has been denied. A two-judge panel in Colorado federal appeals court on Tuesday morning rejected the emergency appeal by San Jose co-captain Brooke Slusser and others to prevent a transgender woman from playing for the

A federal court upheld a ruling that allows a San Jose State women's volleyball team member to play in Wednesday's Mountain West Conference tournament after teammates said she shouldn't be able to play because she is transgender.

The judge also noted in his ruling that "no defendant disputed that San Jose State rosters a trans woman volleyball player."

A federal judge's ruling to allow Blaire Fleming, a transgender women's volleyball player for San Jose State, to play in the Mountain West Conference tournament receives backlash.