Gee, why don’t female athletes want to go up against teams that include male players? I just can’t figure it out.

San Jose State volleyball played its first game on Thursday night since three Mountain West schools announced they would forfeit rather than play the Spartans and transgender starter Blaire Fleming. 

That is, rather than play the Spartans, who have a male player.

After the match, Spartans head coach Todd Kress said he was “disappointed” that his team was “losing opportunities to play” but did not reference why, exactly, schools don’t want to face San Jose State. 

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“It’s not just us that are losing opportunities to play,” Kress continued. “It’s the people choosing not to play us, and that’s very unfortunate when it comes to these young women who have earned the right to step on the court and play.” 

Well, Coach Kress, people are “choosing not to play” your team because your team chooses to roster a biological male. You’ve made a choice, so they’ve made their own choice. 

That’s kind of how this works. 

“And so I just think that we’re in a position where it appears that government and politics have kind of intertwined itself with college sports,” Kress added. 

Including the politics of letting a man play on the women’s team.