Overview
- The Office for Civil Rights concluded San José State broke Title IX by allowing a transgender-identifying male to compete on women’s volleyball teams and by retaliating against female athletes and staff who complained.
- The proposed resolution requires adopting biology-based definitions of male and female, separating sports and intimate facilities by biological sex, restoring records and titles, and issuing personalized apologies to affected athletes and teams that forfeited.
- San José State acknowledged receiving the findings and said it is reviewing the investigation and proposed agreement.
- OCR cited an alleged plan to injure a player that the university did not investigate, a claim the Mountain West said it could not corroborate.
- The probe opened in February 2025 after complaints and lawsuits, following a 2024 season marked by multiple forfeits, and it reflects a broader federal shift to enforcing Title IX based on sex assigned at birth alongside recent NCAA policy changes.