The press release from the Department of Education on Thursday announcing an investigation into San Jose State for allowing a transgender player on its women’s volleyball team promoted a false narrative about the velocity of that player’s spikes and the injury risk her participation meant for other players.
The San Jose State volleyball player’s college career is over, and the Spartans’ season ended in November, but the DOE’s decision to relitigate her presence on the team has resurrected demonstrably false claims of documented events.
The release, which names the player despite her not being publicly out as transgender, claims the player was “dominant” and “included reported dangerous strikes directed at opponent’s faces, forced competing teams to forfeit games to protect their female athletes.”
These assertions were initially put forth by co-captain Brooke Slusser, the trans player’s former roommate and teammate who outed her in a lawsuit in September that attempted to ban all transgender women from playing college sports on women’s teams. In those court filings, Slusser claims her teammate hit the ball at velocities as fast as 80 mph.
That claim was...
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