US EditionTrump Administration finds that San Jose State University violated Title IX over transgender volleyball player
The Education Department found SJSU discriminated by allowing a transgender athlete on women's volleyball, requiring apologies, record restorations, and risk of federal funding loss if noncompliant.
- On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights announced it determined San Jose State University violated Title IX by allowing a male athlete on the women's volleyball team.
- The investigation began in February and the federal probe into SJSU opened alongside the University of Pennsylvania after a 2024 civil rights complaint triggered investigations.
- OCR offered a proposed resolution that would require SJSU to adopt biology-based definitions of 'male' and 'female', separate sports and intimate facilities by biological sex, restore records, and send personalized apologies to female athletes from 2022–2024 indoor volleyball and 2023 beach volleyball.
- San Jose State responded that university leaders are reviewing the Education Department's findings and proposed resolution agreement, while Kimberly Richey, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, said the agency will hold SJSU to account to protect future athletes.
- The development aligns with the Trump administration's campaign to restrict transgender athletes and follows a similar University of Pennsylvania settlement involving Lia Thomas, amid the Supreme Court hearing earlier this month and NCAA policy shifts.
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Feds order San Jose State University to apologize to women’s volleyball players
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Blaire Fleming At Center of SJSU’s Title IX Violation Over Trans Eligibility
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SF WeeklyEducation Department finds SJSU in Title IX violation
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced Wednesday that San José State University violated Title IX due to policies allowing transgender athletes to
Dept. of Education finds San Jose State violated Title IX regarding transgender volleyball player
The Dept. of Education warned that San José State risks "imminent enforcement action" if it doesn't voluntarily resolve the Title IX violations by taking action five ways.
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