Transgender women’s college volleyball player Blaire Fleming has helped lead the San Jose State women’s volleyball team to an undefeated record so far this season, and one player is not happy about it.
Lee University women’s volleyball player Macy Petty is also a legislative assistant for the Concerned Women of America and has joined the group in speaking out against Fleming playing in NCAA women’s volleyball.
During a recent interview with Fox News, Petty said that she wants to help raise awareness about transgender players.
“We want to protect the integrity of women’s sports but also the safety of these female athletes,” Petty told Fox News. “Many of these schools were unaware that there was a male athlete on this team until this news article came out in April. We just want to make sure that these schools know exactly what is going on in this athletic program because the NCAA and SJSU had not previously given them the decency to even let them know what was happening.”
“Female athletes were put in this odd position of showing up on the court and looking at the other side and realizing that something was different about this game. I’ve never seen an athlete play like this before, which makes total sense considering that this athlete, first of all, is not female, but the net is seven inches shorter than it should be for male players.”
Petty said that she and other opponents have been “blindsided” by transgender athletes.
“There’s no informed consent for the schools or for the female athletes here. They’re totally blindsided when they walk up to the court and they see that there’s a male athlete on the other side.”
“This actually happened to me. I played college volleyball, and during my recruiting process, the same thing happened to me. I walked up to the court and, with all of the college scouts standing all around me, I looked at my competition, and it was a boy,” she said according to Fox News.
“I thought this is obviously cheating, but I played anyway because I didn’t have this time to sit and reflect and think about the decisions that I was making. It was just kind of upon me at that moment without any respect given to me about that decision.”
Clearly, Petty is taking a strong stance.
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