San Jose State University women’s volleyball coach Todd Kress is lashing out at the criticism and “hate” he claims the team has faced this season for the school’s decision to allow transgender player Blaire Fleming to play on the women’s team.
As SJSU bows out of the Mountain West Conference volleyball tournament after losing to Colorado State, Kress spoke in a message to Fox News about the pressures he and the team faced this season.
In his message, Kress claimed that he and the women of the SJSU volleyball team were prepared to play every game in spite of five rival colleges’ repeated moves to boycott his team. He insisted, “We did not take away anyone’s participation opportunities.”
Kress went on to claim that each time a women’s team from a rival college forfeited a game to avoid playing against a man identifying as a woman, SJSU faced “appalling,…
