{"id":4849,"date":"2026-03-12T07:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/she-stood-up-for-women-in-college-sports-now-shes-the-victim-of-vicious-online-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:59:54","slug":"she-stood-up-for-women-in-college-sports-now-shes-the-victim-of-vicious-online-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/she-stood-up-for-women-in-college-sports-now-shes-the-victim-of-vicious-online-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"She Stood Up For Women In College Sports. Now She\u2019s The Victim Of Vicious Online Attacks."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brooke Slusser took a stand for women in college sports. Now she\u2019s the victim of vicious online attacks.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with Fox News<\/a>, the former San Jose State Volleyball player expressed shock at the hate and vitriol coming out now for simply saying she was not comfortable sharing a bed with a man as a college athlete. The attacks come years after Slusser joined the lawsuit against the NCAA, where she publicly spoke about her experience playing alongside Blaire Fleming, a biological male on the SJSU women\u2019s volleyball team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly think what struck the biggest nerve is this is really the first time I\u2019ve like sat and talked about just kind of like a day to day point of view, like, yes, we were good friends, like we\u2019d share very like intimate details about each of our lives, like that\u2019s a normal roommate tendencies do in a girl\u2019s apartment,\u201d Slusser told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Brooke Slusser<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Since the interview earlier this week, Slusser has been called a \u201cb*tch<\/a>\u201d and a \u201ctransphobe right-wing grifter<\/a>\u201d among other attacks for simply speaking the truth.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone texted me and was like, \u2018I love you so much, I hope you\u2019re doing ok,\u2019 and that usually means that\u2019s usually how I find out something\u2019s going on about me on the internet,\u201d Slusser said of the attacks.<\/p>\n

Slusser believed her coaches, support staff, and San Jose State admin when they told her Blaire was a girl. Slusser shared beds with the biological man on team trips and lived together for two seasons. Slusser said she was blindsided by the news that she had been living with a man, even though, in hindsight, she said things seemed off.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis doors were always locked, that\u2019s what I remember, because like I said, we were all very good friends, and so it\u2019s very normal for girls just to like barge into each other\u2019s rooms unannounced,\u201d Slusser said. \u201cWe always had to knock, and I just thought that was weird, but I was like, if a person likes their privacy, I\u2019m not gonna be the one to push a button.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slusser refuses to focus on the hate. Instead, she\u2019s driven to ensure other girls don\u2019t live through the experience of playing and living with a man disguised as a woman, which Slusser described as \u201chell.\u201d Slusser said her coach, Todd Kress, never told Slusser her roommate was a man, and once news broke about Fleming\u2019s biology, Kress encouraged his team to stay quiet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey gaslit us so much, and the fact that like, if we spoke on this at all, even with like close family and friends, our scholarship would be in jeopardy,\u201d Slusser said.<\/p>\n

In January, the Office of Civil Rights found San Jose State violated Title IX because of its handling of the trans-identifying volleyball player. The Trump admin said that if the university complied with a list of conditions, the university wouldn\u2019t be punished. Instead of complying, like Penn did last year, SJSU and the California State University system decided to sue the federal government.<\/p>\n

SJSU President Dr.Cynthia Teniente-Matson released this statement<\/a> on March 6 regarding the lawsuit:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a step we take lightly. However, we have a responsibility to defend the integrity of our institution and the rule of law, while ensuring that every member of our community is treated fairly and in accordance with the law. Our position is simple: We have followed the law and cannot be punished for doing so. OCR has faulted us for following decisions from federal courts that bound SJSU; OCR has no authority to do that. We are asking the court to set aside OCR\u2019s Letter of Findings and Proposed Resolution Agreement and prevent the Department of Education from terminating, freezing, or refusing to grant SJSU\u2019s federal funding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slusser called her institution\u2019s decision \u201cblood-boiling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s mostly SJSU that needs to be held accountable,\u201d Slusser said. \u201cI achieved the dream of playing collegiate sports, and the last year I had was completely ruined. You can\u2019t get that back.\u201d<\/p>\n

During Slusser\u2019s senior season in 2024, eight of San Jose State\u2019s wins came from forfeits because other collegiate programs refused to play against a male. In the Mountain West Conference alone, Boise State, Wyoming, Utah State, and Nevada forfeited seven matches against SJSU. Slusser thought the nationwide pushback would address the issue, but she was proved wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was still trusting of Todd, my head coach, and I asked what happens if we just removed this one person and played as women, and he just cussed me out. I was like, oh, ok, that\u2019s how we feel about this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old is fighting alongside Riley Gaines as the two are part of a lawsuit against the NCAA. Slusser said it\u2019s progressing well despite both the NCAA and Mountain West conference attempts to appeal.<\/p>\n

The slurs thrown Slusser\u2019s way for speaking up thankfully don\u2019t get her down. Even if they did, she said she would never stop standing up for women.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I passed this up and had kids in sports later on and saw them going through what I did when I knew I could change it and didn\u2019t, I would literally kick myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think people need to know you can stand up and nothing is gonna happen to you.\u201d<\/p>\n