San Jose Volleyball Meets the Firestorm of Gender Politics

The San Jose State Spartans were preparing for another hopeful – but largely uneventful – women’s volleyball season in 2024.

But then a publication outed a player on that team as transgender and from there the protests and backlash grew seemingly by the day.

Player lawsuits, coach accusations and boycott threats, and that was just from inside their own locker room.

Soon teams all over the San Jose schedule decided to forfeit their matches, but also never gave an official reason why. 

So today, ahead of the Mountain West Conference Tournament, Katie Barnes joins us to quiet the noise and turn up the conversation on a team from San Jose that just wants to play the game.

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