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Women’s volleyball players at Santa Rosa Junior College have recently come to file a title IX complaint about their experience with a biologically male transgender teammate.
Two of the female athletes who signed the complaint, Madison Shaw and Gracie Shaw, Pakinomist told Digital about alleged physical injury caused by the Trans teammate.
Madison claimed, last spring, she saw the trans athlete saves a ball in his teammate’s face so hard that it caused a concussion.
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“It had so much power and so much influence with my teammate’s head that it resulted in a concussion she was out for two weeks of her second year, and she was upset. And obviously injuries happen, it is inevitable, especially in a contact sport, but this one could have been especially prevented by not having this male athlete on the team,” Madison said.
Madison said the teammate was former player Kiana Walker.
“She told me how annoying (it was) because she didn’t think this athlete belonged to our team, and now that she is suffering from the consequences, it really bothered her. But a majority of our teams don’t see what we see it. They support the male athlete on the team.”
Meanwhile, Gracie claimed she was herself hit in the head of one of the Trans Athlet’s spikes.
“I was even hit in the face of this male athlete in practice in August. I was clear, I knew this male athlete was hitting the ball and I couldn’t move out of the way and the ball spiked me on the face and it was far harder than any other hit I had got from the other female athletes on our team,” Gracie said.
“It hurt pretty bad … It came in my face so fast that I didn’t even have time to respond.”
The two women, together with teammate Brielle Galli, filed their title IX complaint against the school to the US Ministry of Education for Civil Rights last week. Their complaint alleged the school administrators retreated against them as they spoke internally as opposed to letting the trans athlete on the team.
“We have told our coach, our athletic director and our title IX coordinator from the Get-Go that we want to play, we want to be part of this team, but we are not willing to take the court while a male athlete is on the team,” Madison said.
She added that the school administrators gave her a delayed answer as to whether they would honor her request and rejected it. Then, when Madison prepared a speech to tell her teammates that she would go away from the team because of the trans -athlete, her coach told her “he can’t.”
“Our coach sends me a text that says’ no, you can’t tell the team your reasons for not taking the court, and we really have to respect the privacy of the male athlete,” Madison said.
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Gracie added that they then tried to tell the team about their decision not to play on a weightlifting session, but they were stopped from doing so too.
“Our coach, ironically, at 10 o’clock in the night before our weight session, canceled the weights,” Gracie said. “And it basically felt she was trying to dampen us.”
Then the two women tried to create a zoom meeting to tell the team, they claim. But Coach allegedly interfered in this meeting.
“Our coach demanded that she had a link and she told the team that this was not a mandatory meeting and participation was not necessary, and it made it feel like what we were trying to say was not very important and that the team didn’t have to come and we felt it was very wrong,” Gracie said.
Santa Rosa Junior College made a statement to Pakinomist Digital in response to the two women’s claims.
“Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) is obliged to promote an inclusive and supportive environment for all students and staff. The district complies with California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) regulations that govern the student’s justification and participation in our Athletic Programs.”
“We respect all students’ legal privacy and cannot discuss individual circumstances. What we can confirm is that SRJC takes all reports seriously and responds through established procedures.”
California has become a fireplace for national controversy involving trans athletes specifically volleyball players dating back to last year. The State Education Department is already sued by the US Ministry of Justice for its continued policies that allow biological men to compete in the girls and women’s categories in sports.
At the NCAA Division at level, the San Jose State University’s Women’s Volleyball Team stood against a controversy involving Trans Athlet Blaire Fleming last fall, which received a federal title IX study of the school after President Donald Trump returned to the office earlier this year.
At the high school level, a trans athlete for the Jurupa Valley High School Girls’ Volleyball Team has asked two other players to move away from the team with perdition, while at least four opponents have lost games for the team.
