Former coach suspended over trans athlete praises Trump’s Title IX modifications
A former girls’s volleyball coach suspended for combating again in opposition to a college’s dealing with of a transgender athlete on the ladies’s group praised President Trump’s modifications to Title IX on Sunday, calling them “an important first step in the appropriate path.”
“Now we have to proceed it, and… the legal guidelines [have to] change and the NCAA has to make these modifications obligatory in order that we save girls’s sports activities and that we proceed to have girls’s sports activities,” Melissa Batie-Smoose, former San Jose State College volleyball coach, advised “Fox & Buddies Weekend’s” Charlie Harm.
Batie-Smoose was suspended final yr over a Title IX grievance she filed in opposition to the varsity relating to transgender athlete Blaire Fleming, alleging Fleming conspired with an opponent to assist the group lose a match and injure teammate Brooke Slusser.
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NCAA Logos are featured throughout the Division I Ladies’s Volleyball Semifinals held at PPG Paints Enviornment on December 19, 2019 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Images through Getty Photographs)
Slusser lamented that her coach’s suspension “took away the one secure area we had.”
Now Batie-Smoose’s contract has expired, and the varsity will not be rehiring her.
“It is simply been a protracted two years and standing up for what’s proper, and ensuring we’re persevering with to help girls and girls’s sports activities is what I stood up for and now at present, after 30 years in my profession, [I] have been let go,” she stated Sunday.
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Melissa Batie-Smoose filed a Title IX grievance. (Fox Information Channel)
“The folks round them [the girls on the team], weren’t supporting them. The administration, the athletic division, the pinnacle coach had been all defending the male and just about gaslighting everyone concerned,” she added.
“It was a really powerful scenario for all of them. Very traumatic what they needed to undergo, and it is unlucky they’ve 4 years to play collegiate volleyball, and their final two years had been affected a lot and never with the ability to play a few of their matches.”
San Jose State was unable to touch upon the scenario, citing personnel issues.
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Fox Information’ Ryan Gaydos and Claudia Cowan contributed to this report.
