: 40px”>Batie-Smoose reports that Kress began bending over backwards to accommodate Fleming, who reportedly often took liberties with the team’s dress code and practice schedule, as well as the baseline behavioural standards that Kress applied to the rest of the team. This claimed double standard is one of the major themes of Batie-Smoose’s Complaint.
In one detailed case study she puts forward, Batie-Smoose contrasts the allegedly lax treatment afforded to Fleming with the far stricter standards imposed on a promising female recruit who was competing for Fleming’s position. Kress allegedly refused to renew the recruit’s scholarship. Being unable to pay her tuition out of pocket, the recruit was effectively pushed out of the program, and now plays in another state.
The climate that Batie-Smoose describes is one of fear and self-censorship. Until Slusser finally went public with her concerns in recent weeks, everyone involved with the SJSU women’s volleyball team seems to have been scared to even mention the fact that Fleming is transgender—despite also being required to pretend that Fleming’s biologically male status is athletically inconsequential….
Read on as the complications pile up and, predictably enough, it all goes legal.
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