An athletics official from the University of California at Davis reached out to a San Jose State University athletics official for advice on how to bring a transgender athlete aboard one of its teams.
According to documents obtained by writer Dan Zaksheske, Melissa Hughes, the associate athletics director of sports medicine at UC Davis, emailed SJSU’s senior associate athletic director about bringing a potential transgender student athlete onto a UC Davis sports team.
The associate athletic director, Laura Alexander, would likely have a plethora of knowledge in terms of dealing with a transgender athlete after SJSU grabbed national headlines throughout 2024 for featuring a male athlete on its women’s volleyball team. Blaire Fleming — born Brayden — is a 6’1” male whose participation in NCAA women’s volleyball
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