A judge has rejected a request to block a San Jose State women’s volleyball team member from playing in a conference tournament on grounds that she’s transgender.

A bid by the co-captain of San Jose State University’s women’s volleyball team to get a purportedly transgender teammate banned from the Mountain West Conference Championship has failed. Co-captain Brooke Slusser and her co-plaintiffs waited too long to seek an emergency court order barring the player from the tournament,

The suit was filed on behalf of players who claimed it was unfair and physically unsafe for them to play against a purportedly transgender athlete.

A federal judge denied emergency injunctive relief despite complaints from competitors who object to the Spartans player's participation on the grounds that she is transgender.

A federal judge ruled that the player, who is at the center of a controversy over transgender athletes, can participate in a women’s volleyball conference tournament this week.

This story was originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org A federal judge has rejected a court motion targeting a member of San José State University’s women’s volleyball team — a player identified in court documents as a transgender athlete.

A transgender player on the San Jose State women’s volleyball team will be allowed to compete in the Mountain West Championship this week.

The plaintiffs sued the Mountain West and its commissioner over the participation of a player who they say is transgender.

San Jose State's volleyball team is currently guaranteed to face a team in the upcoming Mountain West Tournament that has already forfeited to it.

In the athletic arena, proponents and opponents of transgender women in women’s sports disagree not only on human biology and who gets protected under federal anti-discrimination law, but on

The Spartans' semifinal opponent is one of the teams that forfeited earlier—will history repeat itself in the Mountain West Tournament?