College Sports and Civil Rights

The U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration found San Jose State University violated Title IX in its handling of a transgender volleyball player, concluding that Brooke Slusser and teammates were required to share sleeping and changing spaces without disclosure of the player’s biological sex and citing an incident in which the trans athlete allegedly conspired with an opponent to spike a teammate in the face. Slusser’s parents praised the administration and Secretary McMahon, said they will pursue litigation, and detailed severe health, academic and financial fallout for their daughter — including major weight loss, loss of her menstrual cycle, anorexia, forfeiture of her Division I scholarship, and out‑of‑pocket tuition and housing costs after she left SJSU.