Overview
- SJSU received a Letter of Impending Enforcement that Tuesday gave the school 10 days to accept federal remedies or face a Justice Department referral and the loss of federal funding.
- The Office for Civil Rights found in January that SJSU violated Title IX by allowing Blaire Fleming, a transgender woman, to play on women’s volleyball and beach teams from 2022 to 2024 after several Mountain West teams forfeited matches.
- The department’s proposed resolution would adopt biology-based definitions of sex, separate sports and locker rooms by sex, restore women’s records and titles, and issue personalized apologies to affected athletes.
- SJSU and the California State University system sued on March 6 to block enforcement, arguing Ninth Circuit precedent protects transgender students and calling the department’s action an overreach.
- Cal State says losing federal support could cut roughly $130 million in student aid and about $175 million in research, and a judge paused a related player lawsuit until the Supreme Court rules in B.P.J. v. West Virginia expected in June.