According to the lawsuit, the Mountain West added a transgender participation policy on Sept. 27. The policy says, in part, that any team that refuses to play against an opponent with a transgender athlete “shall be deemed to have forfeited the contest.”

This story was originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on Nov. 14, 2024. A dozen plaintiffs — including two Boise State University volleyball players — are taking an ongoing transgender athletics dispute to a federal court.

The volleyball players in the suit claim the matches forfeited due to the presence of Fleming should not count as losses because the women were simply exercising their First Amendment rights and the newly-enacted TPP should not have passed in the first place.