Brooke Slusser criticizes San Jose State’s decision to suspend assistant coach after filing a Title IX complaint regarding a transgender teammate.

The lawsuit adds more fuel to America’s fiery debate over the participation of trans women in women’s sports. Like the lawsuit against the NCAA, it is funded by ICONS, co-founded by

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.

The plaintiffs include SJSU co-captain Brooke Slusser, assistant coach Melissa Batie-Smoose and two former Spartans players.

Melissa Batie-Smoose was suspended Saturday, less than two hours before the team’s match against New Mexico, after she filed a Title IX complaint earlier that week.

A lawsuit filed on Wednesday asks for a San Jose State University volleyball player to be declared ineligible for the Mountain West Conference tournament because the player is reportedly transgender.

The San Jose State women's volleyball program has had multiple opponents forfeit matches amid allegations of a transgender woman on SJSU's roster.As of Oct. 3, four of San Jose State's scheduled opponents have either forfeited or canceled matches.

Current and former San Jose State women’s volleyball players are part of a 12-person lawsuit filed against the Mountain West and commissioner Gloria Nevarez alleging Title IX and First Amendment violations amid the controversy surrounding transgender Blaire Fleming’s roster status,