Bravo to Colorado State volleyball for playing San Jose State

Jessica_Rose · October 05, 2024, 05:17:40 AM

Sean Keeler: Bravo to Colorado State volleyball for playing San Jose State, putting championships before cheap political points

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Story by Sean Keeler (5 Oct 2024)

Colorado State swept San Jose State, 3-0. No offensive signs. No hollering. There was, by media count, one armed security officer standing outside the visiting locker room.

A trans player took the court for the visiting Spartans and it felt like any other Mountain West volleyball match.

Which, of course, it wasn't.

The Spartans were supposed to visit Laramie on Saturday as the second part of a Front Range swing. Only Wyoming announced Tuesday that it canceled the match and will forfeit instead.

Here's what's curious: The Cowgirls played against the Spartans, and an SJSU player identified this past spring by the website Reduxx.com as trans, twice last season. And twice in 2022. No forfeits.

What's changed? The Cowboy State Daily reported on a letter penned by Wyoming Republican State Sen. Cheri Steinmetz, and circulated to other lawmakers, that said in part that, "the (State) Legislature has been very clear that the University of Wyoming, being a publicly funded land grant institution, should not participate in the extremist agenda of Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) or propagate the lie that biological sex can be changed ... We all know it cannot."

Bravo to CSU for playing. For putting the pursuit of a conference championship, and a title for their players, over cheap political points.

Lori Dee · October 05, 2024, 10:11:32 AM

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Bravo to Colorado State volleyball for playing San Jose State

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