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Kaillie Humphries is a taxpayer Californian, and she does not approve of the California State University (CSU) system’s latest lawsuit against the US Department of Education.
As a veteran female Olympian, now with a young son, she morally objects to it.
“I love California. I don’t agree with its politics. I don’t agree with the lawsuit at all,” Humphries told Pakinomist Digital.
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USA’s Kaillie Humphries holds a USA flag after competing to win bronze in the bobsleigh women’s monobob heat 4 at the Cortina Sliding Center during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo on February 16, 2026. (Marco BERTORELLO/AFP)
CSU and San Jose State University (SJSU) are taking on President Donald Trump’s administration in a high-stakes legal challenge. The U.S. Department of Education investigated the school’s transgender volleyball player scandal and determined that SJSU violated Title IX because of its handling of the situation.
Some of the female players were allegedly unaware that the trans athlete, Blaire Fleming, was biologically male, according to court documents.
“For me to hear or understand that there’s ever been a female athlete who wasn’t aware of their situation, it just speaks to why Trump is stepping up and keeping women’s sports protected. Because it’s not just about physical safety, but the mental and sexual side of everything,” Humphries said. “I can’t see a world where there should even be a man in a women’s sport.”
At the center of the conflict is 23-year-old Brooke Slusser. The former SJSU volleyball co-captain shared a court, locker rooms, hotel rooms and an apartment with Fleming before he ever learned the athlete’s biological sex.
Slusser fought back and spoke up, waging legal battles against the NCAA, Mountain West and CSU over her experience.
“I support her,” Humphries said of Slusser. “I would say she did the right thing and she has a community of people who believe in what she’s fighting for.”
Liberals across X and TikTok have launched a hate campaign against Slusser after a recent interview with Pakinomist Digital in which she revealed that she shared secrets and sometimes beds with Fleming when they lived together in the same apartment.
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Humphries called the attacks on Slusser “horrific.”
“I think it’s cruel to see someone being attacked for feeling unsafe in their environment and talking about it,” Humphries said. “I can only imagine what that feeling of unknown would be like when you’re in an unfamiliar situation and knowing that it’s affecting her safety and now going forward affects her mental state. It’s a tough situation to be in.
“I really hope, regardless of people’s thoughts and feelings and beliefs, that sports should be a safe place. And to attack someone online just to say that they were ignorant and that they feel unsafe in that environment, that’s a shame… She can call me anytime if she needs help.”
The person Slusser holds responsible for ending up in the situation with Fleming is SJSU head volleyball coach Todd Kress, who recruited her while allegedly withholding knowledge of the trans athlete’s birth gender from her. Slusser also alleged that Kress encouraged her to move into the apartment with Fleming since there was also another group of teammates looking for a tenant.
“Todd Kress, knowing that this person was a man and saying that I’m going to ‘fit in better’ with these girls on my volleyball team couldn’t have been further from the truth,” Slusser previously told Pakinomist Digital.
Humphries has her own experience with an allegedly abusive coach and a program that did not support her when she competed for Team Canada.
“I went through a huge problem with Bobsled Canada and the head coach that they hired. And I was physically and mentally abused by the head coach. I physically feared for my safety,” Humphries previously told Pakinomist Digital.
“When I brought it up to our administration at Bobsled Canada, they decided to back him as their choice of coach that they hired for the Olympic year and not back me… They cut my funding, they cut my support, they removed me from the team and there was no going back. And because I was living in the United States and engaged to an American at the time, I called USA Bobsled.”
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Humphries had to start from scratch and earn her spot on Team USA while going through a rigorous legal immigration process. But she pulled through, winning gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics, bronze at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, on her way to becoming the most accomplished female bobsledder in history.
She made even more history on Thursday when she presented her Order of Ikkos medal, which is given to those who make a major impact on an Olympic medalist’s journey, to Trump. This made Trump the first US president to receive such a medal.
Humphries thanked Trump for his executive actions to protect women’s sports and make IVF more accessible to expectant mothers. Despite his historic Olympic success, Humphries calls his son the crowning glory. But as she navigates raising her son in California, she says she’ll have to stay alert.
“I’ve been thinking about homeschooling,” Humphries admitted.
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USA bronze medalist Kaillie Armbruster Humphries kisses her son on the podium of the bobsled women’s monobob at the Cortina Sliding Center during the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo on February 16, 2026. (Marco BERTORELLO/AFP)
“As a mother raising a son, he will grow up to believe that women’s sports are for women… I want to make sure he is a true advocate not only for the sport itself, but for women’s sports…
“Who knows what the state of California and or the United States will be in when we get that time even five years from now when he starts school.”
