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San Jose State University’s Blaire Fleming, circled, sends female opponent tumbling to the ground with a ferocious spike. (Credit: The Daily Mail)

San Jose State University (SJSU) faced eight-game forfeitures by opposing teams because biological male Blaire Fleming plays for the University’s women’s volleyball team. Now, multiple players are choosing to leave SJSU and enter the transfer portal.

A lawsuit was ultimately filed against the Mountain West, alleging that allowing Fleming to play at San Jose State violates Title IX and the players’ First and 14th Amendment rights.

In October, The Gateway Pundit reported that during a match between San Jose State and San Diego State, the 6-foot-1  Fleming rocketed a spike off the face of San Diego State’s Keira Herron. The young woman immediately fell to the floor.

Fox News reports that one of Fleming’s teammates, co-captain Brooke Slusser, joined the lawsuit alleging the program withheld knowledge about Fleming’s birth gender from her and other players on the team, forcing the team to share changing and sleeping spaces without being informed that Fleming was a biological male.

Associate head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose went public with her concerns and filed a Title IX complaint against the school, alleging Fleming conspired with an opponent to help the team lose a match and injure Slusser.

Batie-Smoose was suspended for speaking out.

SJSU has publicly acknowledged the mass exodus of seven players that have chosen to enter the transfer portal.

Per Fox News:

The university provided a statement to Fox News Digital in which it expressed “respect” for the recent wave of players who have opted to transfer. “Student athletes have the ability to make decisions about their college athletic careers, and we have the utmost respect for that,” the statement read.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that seven of the team’s players have entered the transfer portal.

The seven players who are transferring will be leaving the team after a season that included eight forfeited matches, regular police protection, national scrutiny and internal turmoil between players and coaches. One player even received threats of physical harmamid the controversy.