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EXCLUSIVE: The former transgender volleyball player in the state of San Jose (SJSU), Balaire Fleming, responded to Fox News Digital for the first time concerning the allegations that emerged from the program scandal in 2024.
Fleming tackled the recent allegations made by former assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smose, who filed a complaint in September against the California State University system (CSU), because SJSU is one of the 23 Californian schools that are part of the system. Batie-Smose told Fox News Digital that SJSU had welcomed Fleming to special exceptions that were not granted to female athletes.
“Do not introduce yourself to train without apologies, sitting in the stands eating while the practice is going on, this kind of thing,” said Batie-Smose about the special exceptions reserved exclusively for Fleming.
SJSU and CSU refused to respond to these allegations.
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Balaire Fleming, Spartans of the State of San Jose, reacts during the second set against the Falcons of the Air Force in Falcon Court to East Gym on October 19, 2024 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers / Getty Images)
But Fleming responded to the Batie-Smose complaint and addressed the former teammate and co-captain Brooke Slusser.
“The only times I showed up to train with` `no excuse ” and I sat in the stands, it was when I was injured and I couldn’t play. Brooke Slusser and Melissa need to have a life,” Fleming to Fox News Digital.
Slusser, who played alongside Fleming for two seasons at the SJSU of 2023-24, joined a trial and filed another citing his experience with the Trans athlete. Slusser also joined a prosecution against the NCAA and filed his against the Mountain West conference and representatives of SJSU.
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Slusser’s prosecution drew national attention to the program last year, while the team saw several lost opponents while it and Fleming were opposed as opposite figures in a major American culture war flash.
The situation even collected a response from President Donald Trump when he was on the campaign track last October, calling for a moment when one of the tips of Fleming struck an opposing San Diego State player during a match, during a town hall of Fox News Channel with Harris Faulkner. Regular police protection was allocated to the team in September and persisted throughout the season.
In addition to the Slusser and Batie-Smose trial, SJSU is also currently under a federal investigation by the United States Ministry of Education for its management of the situation last year. The investigation was launched in early February after Trump signed the executive decree of “men out of women’s sport”.
The team saw a massive exodus of its players after the end of the controversial season last December. At least seven of the team players with the remaining eligibility entered the transfer portal.
This season, SJSU started from 6-7 without Fleming, Slusser and these other transferred players.
Fleming’s university career ended on November last day last season, when SJSU lost against the state of Colorado in the final of the Mountain West tournament in Las Vegas. SJSU played in the final because the opponent they were supposed to face in the semi-finals, Confiscated State. Boisse State had lost two regular season games in SJSU this season in the middle of the controversy.
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Fleming and Slusser were both appointed in 2024 honorable mentions of all conferences, because they anchored one of the best offenses in the West mountain in the middle of the controversy last year.
The team ended the regular season with the third best conference strike percentage. Slusser finished with an individual typing percentage of the top 10 at the conference, while Fleming finished second in the conference in set elimination with a .386.
Brooke Slusser # 10 and Balaire Fleming # 3 of the San Jose State Spartans call a piece during the first set against Air Force Falcons in Falcon short at East Gym on October 19, 2024 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers / Getty Images)
The two players came to SJSU as transfers of years earlier. Slusser was transferred from the University of Alabama in 2023, while Fleming was transferred from Coastal Carolina a year earlier.
Fleming was previously the centerpiece of the best volleyball team in the history of John Champe High School (in Virginia) with a historic season of 19 victories in 2019 – the senior year of Fleming. That year, Fleming was appointed first team of all districts and set the school season record for eliminations in one season with 266. Fleming set the record for a school match for the naughty with 30 against Battlefield High School in September of the same year.
Meanwhile, Slusser, from Texas and Christian devotee for life, obtained the All-American honors of 2023 preparatory volleyball, the All-American honors and all-region of 2020, the honors of the District 2019, the honors of the year 2019 for the volleyball team AVCA 2019 for the Guyer High School team and the Texas Advantage team Volleyball Club.
Slusser allegedly allegedly allegedly alleged the SJSU officials hid to know the birth of Fleming of her while frequently combining both in the same room during night trips. Slusser also said that Fleming admitted to being a biological man in a conversation with slusser on ice in April 2024.
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“Slusser asked why Fleming had not shared this information with her before, especially since they lived together. Fleming replied that there was never a good time to do it, and that he was afraid that Slusser was not his friend so Slusser knew the truth. Fleming also declared that Slusser was uncomfortable with the documents with the documents of Fluming.
After the 2024 volleyball season, Slusser fled the SJSU campus after harassment and frequent threats and threats by other students in response to what she denounces Fleming and the previous fall program. She returned to her parents in Texas to finish the school year at a distance and now works as a volleyball coach for young people in North Carolina.
Fleming celebrated the graduation of SJSU in an article on social networks in May. In a New York Times story in April, Fleming said it was suicidal during the 2024 season.
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