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All graduating seniors who meet California State University education requirements will be offered acceptance into San José State, one of the most popular schools in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about your future, your potential and your power to shape the world,” Anisha Munshi, superintendent of Gilroy Unified, told a group of dozens of students gathered for a launch event this week at Christopher High School in Gilroy. “We are so proud of you, and we cannot wait to see all that you will accomplish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cynthia Teniente-Matson, San José State’s president, said the partnership helps the university reach its goals of equity and inclusiveness, and helps South County students open doors to more possibilities, such as careers in Silicon Valley. According to a\u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/is-college-worth-it/\"> recent report\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California, workers in the state who had a bachelor’s degree in 2023 earned 61% on average more than those with just a high school diploma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have an opportunity to pursue things that they might not have experienced in their upbringing. We have a lot of first-generation students that are here in Gilroy Unified School District. 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Students who have maintained a minimum 2.5 grade point average, and have held a C average or better across \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/apply/freshman/getting_into_the_csu/pages/admission-requirements.aspx\">CSU-required courses\u003c/a> in math, literature, science, language and arts classes, will be proactively notified that they are eligible to be admitted to SJSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter will include information about how to formalize their application online and claim their spot, and will also direct students and their families to financial aid applications, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just getting the letter in the mail that lets a student know they have a spot waiting for them at a university can significantly boost the likelihood they’ll enroll, said Melissa Bardo, the director of government affairs for EdTrust-West, an Oakland-based organization working to remove racial and economic barriers in the state’s education system.[aside postID=news_12059504 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20250930_HISPANICSERVINGINSTITUTIONS_GC-14-KQED.jpg']“Thinking about this from the perspective of a high school senior who is completing their courses in high school, maybe they are unaware that they completed all the courses that are necessary for them to enter college,” Bardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But let’s say you get a letter in the mail, and it says, ‘Congratulations, you met all the requirements, and you are conditionally accepted to the university.’ It can make those next steps of applying for financial aid and figuring out how to get enrolled, and doing so with the support from the institutions that reached out to you, a lot less daunting and more approachable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bardo said direct admissions programs are a proven strategy to increase enrollment and opportunity, and have shown success in states like Idaho, Minnesota and Hawaii, as well as a pilot program in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033771/no-need-to-apply-cal-state-is-automatically-admitting-high-school-students-with-good-grades\">Riverside County\u003c/a> that began last year. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038974/over-1000-oakland-teens-guaranteed-admission-cal-state-east-bay-next-year\">Cal State East Bay\u003c/a> has also set up similar programs with schools in Hayward, Oakland and San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into law SB 640, a bill that expands the pilot program from Riverside County to school districts across the state, opening up 16 of the state’s 22 CSUs for guaranteed admission to many more students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State colleges that are \u003ca href=\"https://www.calstate.edu/attend/degrees-certificates-credentials/Pages/impacted-degrees.aspx\">impacted\u003c/a>, meaning they receive more applications than they can accept in certain programs, including San José State, don’t fall under that law currently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Programs like the ones San José State is rolling out now will help all students, Bardo said, but are especially helpful for students who have traditionally been underrepresented in state colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12060087\" 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:20 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two dozen pro-Palestinian student activists are on a hunger strike calling for California State University to follow its San Francisco and Sacramento campuses in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002307/san-francisco-state-divests-from-weapons-makers-after-working-with-student-activists\">divesting from companies\u003c/a> that supply weapons and surveillance technology to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historic deal between activists and officials at San Francisco State University, which came as a result of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984403/sfsu-pro-palestinian-encampment-established-as-students-rally-for-divestment\">pro-Palestinian encampment that was set up on campus last spring\u003c/a>, pulled investments from weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Leonardo, data analysis company and military contractor Palantir, and construction equipment maker Caterpillar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five hunger strikers at the Cal State campuses in San Francisco, Sacramento, San José and Long Beach are calling on San José and Long Beach to follow suit, along with the entire university system. The hunger strike includes seven students at San José State and six in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said they are striving to raise awareness of Palestinians’ increasing risk of starvation more than two months into an Israeli blockade that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5386511/israel-gaza-food-supplies-hamas-palestinians\">banned food and aid from entering Gaza\u003c/a>, a year and a half after Israel launched its offensive following Hamas’ attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California State University system remains complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people through millions of dollars invested in defense companies and weapons manufacturers,” said Max Flynt, a member of the General Union of Palestine Students at San Francisco State University. “This act of solidarity aims to shed light on what exactly the people of Gaza are facing, and make it inescapable for the administrations of these universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241212-SFSUInvestmentVote-JY-002-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max Flynt, an SF State student, makes a public comment during the SF State Foundation Board meeting to discuss investment in weapons manufacturing companies at the Seven Hills Conference Center on campus in San Francisco on Dec. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement between student activists and the SF State Foundation, an organization that supports the school by investing donations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017889/sf-state-limits-investments-weapons-manufacturers-after-student-activists-push\">investments are screened\u003c/a> to identify companies that earn more than 5% of their revenue from weapons manufacturing on an ongoing basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potential investment targets that surpass the threshold would not be added to the foundation’s portfolio, and any existing holdings whose revenues change to cross the limit would be screened out, according to university spokesperson Bobby King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy does not apply only to companies that supply weapons or surveillance technology to Israel. It says the foundation will “strive not to invest in companies that consistently, knowingly, and directly facilitate or enable severe violations of international law and human rights.”[aside postID=news_12038385 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240821-GAZACAMPUSPROTESTS-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The activists at all four universities are also calling on the Cal State system to divest from all companies that supply weapons, military and surveillance technology and infrastructure, as well as any other companies that “conduct activity that violates human rights” under international law. They mention Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Palantir and Leonardo by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the private University of San Francisco announced its own\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038385/usf-divests-from-defense-companies-tied-to-israel-after-pressure-from-students\"> plans to divest\u003c/a> from four U.S. defense companies, including Palantir, that have contracts with the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State protesters said the school system has “millions of dollars invested in defense companies and weapons manufacturers.” In a letter to the campus community last spring, San José State University said that its philanthropic partner organization, the Tower Foundation, did not have any direct investments in specific companies that its academic senate wanted to divest from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some San José State-affiliated organizations had “nominal investments” in some of the companies, which are embedded in diversified mutual funds, according to the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunger strikers are also calling for the Cal State system to end its international program at the University of Haifa in Israel, as well as any other study abroad programs with Israeli institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students gather for a San Francisco State University Students for Gaza press conference and rally to announce the university’s divestments from weapons manufacturers on SFSU’s campus on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San José State spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald said in an email that the school hasn’t had a student enrolled in the program at the University of Haifa in more than a decade, and that the program was not currently on the Cal State system’s list of available programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State also has no students currently studying abroad in Israel, according to King, but he said that the school does not support academic boycotts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can have a negative effect on academic freedom, as the CSU experienced when California’s well-intentioned travel ban actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/07/25/california-democrats-want-to-reverse-a-travel-ban-to-anti-lgbtq-states-has-it-had-its-intended-effect/\">impeded important LGBTQ+ research\u003c/a>,” he said in a statement, referring to a California law that banned state-funded travel to states with discriminatory laws from 2016 to 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both universities confirmed that they are meeting with students in response to notifications about the hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddy Barghouti, a student striking at San José State, said he hopes the demonstration will put pressure on his campus to reach a deal with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our money to go to things that can help our campus and not towards weapons manufacturers,” he told KQED. “We wanted a way to use our voices and stop all of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The activists at all four universities are also calling on the Cal State system to divest from all companies that supply weapons, military and surveillance technology and infrastructure, as well as any other companies that “conduct activity that violates human rights” under international law. They mention Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Palantir and Leonardo by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the private University of San Francisco announced its own\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038385/usf-divests-from-defense-companies-tied-to-israel-after-pressure-from-students\"> plans to divest\u003c/a> from four U.S. defense companies, including Palantir, that have contracts with the Israeli military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State protesters said the school system has “millions of dollars invested in defense companies and weapons manufacturers.” In a letter to the campus community last spring, San José State University said that its philanthropic partner organization, the Tower Foundation, did not have any direct investments in specific companies that its academic senate wanted to divest from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some San José State-affiliated organizations had “nominal investments” in some of the companies, which are embedded in diversified mutual funds, according to the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunger strikers are also calling for the Cal State system to end its international program at the University of Haifa in Israel, as well as any other study abroad programs with Israeli institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240829-SFSUGazarally-JY-005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students gather for a San Francisco State University Students for Gaza press conference and rally to announce the university’s divestments from weapons manufacturers on SFSU’s campus on Aug. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San José State spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald said in an email that the school hasn’t had a student enrolled in the program at the University of Haifa in more than a decade, and that the program was not currently on the Cal State system’s list of available programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State also has no students currently studying abroad in Israel, according to King, but he said that the school does not support academic boycotts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can have a negative effect on academic freedom, as the CSU experienced when California’s well-intentioned travel ban actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/07/25/california-democrats-want-to-reverse-a-travel-ban-to-anti-lgbtq-states-has-it-had-its-intended-effect/\">impeded important LGBTQ+ research\u003c/a>,” he said in a statement, referring to a California law that banned state-funded travel to states with discriminatory laws from 2016 to 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both universities confirmed that they are meeting with students in response to notifications about the hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haddy Barghouti, a student striking at San José State, said he hopes the demonstration will put pressure on his campus to reach a deal with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want our money to go to things that can help our campus and not towards weapons manufacturers,” he told KQED. “We wanted a way to use our voices and stop all of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On February 5, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports, fulfilling a promise he made on the campaign trail. Subsequently, the U.S. Department of Education announced an investigation into San José State University for allowing a transgender athlete to play on the volleyball team. Today, we’re revisiting an episode from December 2024 about how San José State’s volleyball team got caught up in the fight over women’s sports. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016463/how-anti-trans-politics-loomed-over-san-jose-states-volleyball-season\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This episode first ran on Dec. 4, 2024.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025974/federal-officials-investigate-san-jose-state-under-trumps-order-trans-athletes\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">NCAA Bars Trans Athletes as Federal Officials Launch Investigation of San José State\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9811486855&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there are errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:36] \u003c/em>Natalia, I wonder if we can start with just this San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State volleyball game that you went to, which I’m very curious about and just set the scene for me. Like, what was that like? What was the mood at this volleyball game?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:53] \u003c/em>Yeah, it was just a volleyball game for the most part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:02] \u003c/em>I hadn’t been to a volleyball game in a really long time, so I was surprised, like how exciting it was. It’s a very, like fast paced game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:16] \u003c/em>When I went it was San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State playing University of New Mexico. And it was just exciting. There were really they’re both making points. It was really cool. There are a good amount of spectators there. You know, people’s parents and other students. And for the most part, it looked like any other game. There were some security people there sort of escorting players around and like making sure that people didn’t go in this one area where the players were. There were several students there holding signs in support of the team. There was one protester who was holding a sign that said Protect women’s Sports to oppose the fact that this team was playing with all of its players there. But other than that, it was it was a normal college sports game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:14] \u003c/em>Which is really interesting because that is different from how it seems like the rest of the country is talking about San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State right now. And I want to talk about how that all started. I mean, the person who really thrust the team into the spotlight was San Jose State’s volleyball team, co-captain Brooke Slusser. Who is Brooke Slusser?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:41] \u003c/em>Yeah, she’s like you said, one of the co-captains of the team. She’s played on San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State for a couple of years. She played at a different college before that. So at some point earlier this year, Brooke Slusser, according to her court documents, here’s rumors that one of her teammates is trans. According to these documents, she’s really confused and upset about this information, but mostly keeps it to herself until an article comes out on an opinion site about this player. And then they have a conversation and which, according to Brooke, this player tells her that she’s trans. And Brooke says that she doesn’t want the player to be bullied but doesn’t think that she should be playing on the team. Brooks-lasure was reached out to by this group called Icons. It stands for Independent Counsel on Women’s Sports. They’re essentially an anti-trans advocacy group who is funding Reilly Gaines lawsuit against the NCAA to try to keep trans players out of the NCAA. A rally gains as a former college swimmer and now an anti-trans advocate. And so they approached Brooke Slusser and brought her in as an additional plaintiff on this lawsuit. And she, you know, told the court that her teammate is trans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:12] \u003c/em>So this happened in September, right? When Slusser joined this already existing lawsuit brought forward first by a former college swimmer named Riley Gaines. What is this lawsuit about exactly? What is it, I guess ultimately seeking to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:31] \u003c/em>The overall relief that they are seeking is really quite broad. The lawsuit is seeking to ban trans athletes from college sports, trying to get the court to agree that including them violates Title nine, which is the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex and educational settings. Also to go back into the history of things and rescind any records or wins from trans athletes. It will require sex verification to make sure there are no trans athletes playing. This would really change how Title nine is being used in in terms of trans bans and stuff like that in courts. Right now, courts have allowed a lot of states to ban trans people from sports. What this would do if this went the way of the plaintiffs is it would say not only can they ban trans people from sports, they actually have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:39] \u003c/em>And I mean, why exactly did Slusser get involved in this lawsuit in the first place? What does she say about her teammates specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:49] \u003c/em>I reached out to her to talk about this. You never go back to me, but she did talk on Megan Kelley’s podcast. She’s talk on Fox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Slusser: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:58] \u003c/em>Everything in my body was like, this is so wrong. It’s not fair. It shouldn’t be happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:04] \u003c/em>She says that her teammate, who she says is trans, is more physically imposing than her, her fellow teammates, that she just has an unbeatable power that puts her and her teammates at risk of injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Slusser: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:20] \u003c/em>Again, the power behind this swing is just so different. And if you’re not completely prepared for it, you will get blown up. And that’s the scariest part, because that could end your career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:31] \u003c/em>She’s saying that, you know, having a player that was born male makes it unfair for her and also dangerous for her and her teammates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Slusser: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:41] \u003c/em>And so I think at the end of the day, I just got so far up, I was like, I want to be able to make this change for other people coming into collegiate sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:48] \u003c/em>I mean, Slusser is alleging, first of all, that she has a trans teammate. But has this teammate said anything publicly about this or her gender identity?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:59] \u003c/em>So your listeners will notice that we are not saying her name, and that’s because she hasn’t said anything publicly about her gender identity. San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State has not provided any information about her gender identity. They cite privacy laws and they have maintained that all of their players meet NCAA, a Mountain West Conference rules and that’s all they will say about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:24] \u003c/em>But we do know who she is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:27] \u003c/em>Yes, we do know who she is. Her name has been very much out there. The lawsuits and the articles on conservative sites that Brooke Slusser and others have commented on frequently use him pronouns for this player and generally talk pretty directly about her physicality, etc.. We’re not doing that, but it’s definitely out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:56] \u003c/em>I mean, what do we know about whether Brooke’s allegations are, in fact, true? Like, does this player have any clear physical advantages compared to her teammates?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:08] \u003c/em>It seems like no. This player has played for San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State for a couple of years, has played at a previous university, and there were no problems that I could find. One of the things that Brooke Slusser and others have said is that, you know, she’s she’s so physically imposing and yet she’s about six one. I looked at the roster for the team and more than half a dozen of the players on that team are above six feet. Volleyball players on the whole are usually quite tall. She’s not even the tallest one on San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State University’s team. I talked to a lot of experts who deal with inclusion in sports and who, you know, have read the science and they say that there is no evidence that there is any sort of universal advantage that trans women have in sports, especially once they’ve transitioned medically. Oftentimes, trans women have lower testosterone levels than cisgender women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:18] \u003c/em>According to Slusser, her teammates spikes the ball as fast as 80 mph, which would make her as strong as some of the best men’s players ever. But ESPN analyzed the speed of the teammates spikes in five different games, including ones that went viral. ESPN found that the average speed of those spikes was just over 50 mph, and the fastest was estimated at 64 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:54] \u003c/em>So, Natalia, I mean, how do trans women join a college sports team? Are there special rules that they have to follow in order to qualify?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:04] \u003c/em>Yeah, there are. In terms of the NCAA, who manages most college sports teams, their rules generally are that someone has to have medically transitioned, which usually means taking of hormones like testosterone or estrogen, usually. And they have to have been on that for a certain amount of time. The rules are pretty complicated and spread out to various things for various different sports. But generally, those who have medically transitioned can join sports. Sometimes that means the NCAA will require them to do particular hormone checks throughout the year. But current NCAA rules say that they can play in the sport that aligns with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:50] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, and how many people are we actually talking about? How many trans players are actually participating right now in college sports? What do we know about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:58] \u003c/em>Overall, trans people are a really small portion of the American population. And trans athletes are even smaller portion of that small portion. And the ones that make it to the level of Division one, college sports, it’s kind of very small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:17] \u003c/em>So Brooke Slusser and the other people behind the lawsuit are basically arguing that the NCAA rules allowing trans athletes to play violate civil rights law, in particular, Title IX. What are the arguments around that? What have you heard?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:34] \u003c/em>Yeah. I reached out to the plaintiffs lawyers, Brooks Loesser’s, lawyers and others on the NCAA lawsuit, and none of them got back to me for comment. But from the lawsuit, basically they do say exactly that. They just say allowing trans people to play on women’s sports teams in itself violates Title IX.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:54] \u003c/em>On the other hand, you did talk with people who disagree with that interpretation of Title IX, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:00] \u003c/em>Yeah, exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shiwali Patel: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:02] \u003c/em>This would just lead to an incredible marginalization of an already marginalized group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:08] \u003c/em>I talked to a lawyer at the National Women’s Law Center show, Shiwali Patel. She’s a title IX expert, and she had not great things to say about this lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shiwali Patel: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:20] \u003c/em>Title IX can’t be used to justify exclusion of a vulnerable group of students from equal educational opportunities based on how they look or play or who they are. What these plaintiffs are seeking to do is to really turn Title nine on its head and to remove it from its purpose of equal educational opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:39] \u003c/em>She says that this is not really doing anything to protect women’s sports. There’s a lot less access to facilities. There is a lot less funding, there’s a lot less research in order to to prevent injury. Like there’s a lot of stuff here that needs to be done in terms of protecting women in sports. And she says that none of that has anything to do with kicking trans people out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shiwali Patel: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:06] \u003c/em>There are well-documented actual issues when it comes to gender inequity in sport that if they were to put their resources and time into that, they could be fighting to achieve gender equity. This is not one of them, you know, and trying to exclude trans women and girls from women and girls sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:23] \u003c/em>I know you talked to people who think that banning trans women from sports is part of this larger effort to restrict LGBTQ rights more broadly. What do you hear from people you spoke to about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:36] \u003c/em>I talked to Erin Reid, who is an independent journalist who covers anti-trans legislation all over the country. And she had a really interesting thought about this, that it really isn’t about any sort of particular advantage, that it’s just about discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erin Reed: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:56] \u003c/em>To be clear, you know, we are seeing bans not just in, you know, heavy impact sports, but we’re also seeing bans on transgender athletes and sports like chess and darts and fishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:10] \u003c/em>And she thought that it was interesting that this is folk focusing on sports because she mentioned that she has heard from conservative pundits that sports is actually an easy way to get people who are against the LGBTQ community. It’s an easy entry point for them to start talking about trans issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erin Reed: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:34] \u003c/em>And many of the same states that started with transgender participation in sports, in fact, not just many. 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Several universities forfeited their games against San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State and that’s part of what made the news so big because they refused to play the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:21] \u003c/em>And to be clear, these teams were forfeiting in protest of this teammate that Slusser alleges is trans. Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:29] \u003c/em>That’s, I think, a safe assumption. But we don’t know that for sure. Most of the the universities have not said that per se.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sia Li’ili’i: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:40] \u003c/em>At the beginning of this season, brave women across our conference were meeting with their coaches and school administration, telling them that they would not play against San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:49] \u003c/em>But for example, in in the case of the University of Nevada, Reno, several of the players from that team attended a rally put on by icons, which is that anti-trans organization that’s funding the lawsuit against the NCAA and spoke about the fact that they are against this supposedly trans player being a part of the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sia Li’ili’i: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:12] \u003c/em>I never expected to be blindsided having to compete against a male athlete. I will continue to fight for my friends, my family, and the next generation of female athletes. All female athletes deserve to be protected at every level and every age. This is unfair and it has to be stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:36] \u003c/em>The team while having a obviously a very tough season. And I can’t even imagine what it would be like to be on that team right now. I’m sure that the conversations that are happening are really hard. But they were able to make it to the postseason. And just this past week, they played at the Mountain West Conference tournament and had another high profile forfeit from Boise State. But that got them into the into the final match against Colorado. And they did lose that match, but they made it all the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:14] \u003c/em>What if folks from the team said about what this season has been like for them? 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If you took away all of the context and you were just watching them play, I don’t think you would really know that all of this stuff was going on because the two players, Brooks Lesser and the teammate that she says is trans, that she is in court trying to get out of her team. They are playing right next to each other and they’re, you know, for doing pretty well. They won the game. But I went to go see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:33] \u003c/em>San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State’s women’s volleyball season has ended, right? It ended last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:40] \u003c/em>Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:41] \u003c/em>But how do you think this story could still have ripple effects even beyond San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:47] \u003c/em>Yeah, I think it is really much bigger than San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State. And when we’re talking about sort of trickle down effects of this this sort of lawsuit and this sort of larger political conversation about trans people in sports, is that it can affect people of all gender identities. We could talk about the Olympics this past summer and the Algerian boxer, Amani Khalifa, who is a cisgender woman who people sort of decided, maybe she’s trans. And it became this whole thing. Another example is the situation that happened in Utah, which does have a trans sports ban in place. There was a girl playing high school sports and someone on the athletics association and in relation to the school thought that she was trans. And then there was this whole investigation into this child’s gender, unbeknownst to her or her parents. It can really be a problem where we’re now people are sort of pointing fingers at people, young girls and women who maybe don’t fit gender stereotypes and and now have to somehow prove that they are who they say they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:21:07] \u003c/em>Natalia, thank you so much for walking us through this story. I really appreciate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:21:12] \u003c/em>It. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:41] \u003c/em>Yeah, she’s like you said, one of the co-captains of the team. She’s played on San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State for a couple of years. She played at a different college before that. So at some point earlier this year, Brooke Slusser, according to her court documents, here’s rumors that one of her teammates is trans. According to these documents, she’s really confused and upset about this information, but mostly keeps it to herself until an article comes out on an opinion site about this player. And then they have a conversation and which, according to Brooke, this player tells her that she’s trans. And Brooke says that she doesn’t want the player to be bullied but doesn’t think that she should be playing on the team. Brooks-lasure was reached out to by this group called Icons. It stands for Independent Counsel on Women’s Sports. They’re essentially an anti-trans advocacy group who is funding Reilly Gaines lawsuit against the NCAA to try to keep trans players out of the NCAA. A rally gains as a former college swimmer and now an anti-trans advocate. And so they approached Brooke Slusser and brought her in as an additional plaintiff on this lawsuit. And she, you know, told the court that her teammate is trans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:12] \u003c/em>So this happened in September, right? When Slusser joined this already existing lawsuit brought forward first by a former college swimmer named Riley Gaines. What is this lawsuit about exactly? What is it, I guess ultimately seeking to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:31] \u003c/em>The overall relief that they are seeking is really quite broad. The lawsuit is seeking to ban trans athletes from college sports, trying to get the court to agree that including them violates Title nine, which is the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex and educational settings. Also to go back into the history of things and rescind any records or wins from trans athletes. It will require sex verification to make sure there are no trans athletes playing. This would really change how Title nine is being used in in terms of trans bans and stuff like that in courts. Right now, courts have allowed a lot of states to ban trans people from sports. What this would do if this went the way of the plaintiffs is it would say not only can they ban trans people from sports, they actually have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:39] \u003c/em>And I mean, why exactly did Slusser get involved in this lawsuit in the first place? What does she say about her teammates specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:49] \u003c/em>I reached out to her to talk about this. You never go back to me, but she did talk on Megan Kelley’s podcast. She’s talk on Fox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Slusser: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:58] \u003c/em>Everything in my body was like, this is so wrong. It’s not fair. It shouldn’t be happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:04] \u003c/em>She says that her teammate, who she says is trans, is more physically imposing than her, her fellow teammates, that she just has an unbeatable power that puts her and her teammates at risk of injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Slusser: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:20] \u003c/em>Again, the power behind this swing is just so different. And if you’re not completely prepared for it, you will get blown up. And that’s the scariest part, because that could end your career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:31] \u003c/em>She’s saying that, you know, having a player that was born male makes it unfair for her and also dangerous for her and her teammates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Slusser: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:41] \u003c/em>And so I think at the end of the day, I just got so far up, I was like, I want to be able to make this change for other people coming into collegiate sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:48] \u003c/em>I mean, Slusser is alleging, first of all, that she has a trans teammate. But has this teammate said anything publicly about this or her gender identity?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:59] \u003c/em>So your listeners will notice that we are not saying her name, and that’s because she hasn’t said anything publicly about her gender identity. San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State has not provided any information about her gender identity. They cite privacy laws and they have maintained that all of their players meet NCAA, a Mountain West Conference rules and that’s all they will say about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:24] \u003c/em>But we do know who she is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:27] \u003c/em>Yes, we do know who she is. Her name has been very much out there. The lawsuits and the articles on conservative sites that Brooke Slusser and others have commented on frequently use him pronouns for this player and generally talk pretty directly about her physicality, etc.. We’re not doing that, but it’s definitely out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:56] \u003c/em>I mean, what do we know about whether Brooke’s allegations are, in fact, true? Like, does this player have any clear physical advantages compared to her teammates?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:08] \u003c/em>It seems like no. This player has played for San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State for a couple of years, has played at a previous university, and there were no problems that I could find. One of the things that Brooke Slusser and others have said is that, you know, she’s she’s so physically imposing and yet she’s about six one. I looked at the roster for the team and more than half a dozen of the players on that team are above six feet. Volleyball players on the whole are usually quite tall. She’s not even the tallest one on San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State University’s team. I talked to a lot of experts who deal with inclusion in sports and who, you know, have read the science and they say that there is no evidence that there is any sort of universal advantage that trans women have in sports, especially once they’ve transitioned medically. Oftentimes, trans women have lower testosterone levels than cisgender women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:18] \u003c/em>According to Slusser, her teammates spikes the ball as fast as 80 mph, which would make her as strong as some of the best men’s players ever. But ESPN analyzed the speed of the teammates spikes in five different games, including ones that went viral. ESPN found that the average speed of those spikes was just over 50 mph, and the fastest was estimated at 64 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:54] \u003c/em>So, Natalia, I mean, how do trans women join a college sports team? Are there special rules that they have to follow in order to qualify?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:04] \u003c/em>Yeah, there are. In terms of the NCAA, who manages most college sports teams, their rules generally are that someone has to have medically transitioned, which usually means taking of hormones like testosterone or estrogen, usually. And they have to have been on that for a certain amount of time. The rules are pretty complicated and spread out to various things for various different sports. But generally, those who have medically transitioned can join sports. Sometimes that means the NCAA will require them to do particular hormone checks throughout the year. But current NCAA rules say that they can play in the sport that aligns with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:50] \u003c/em>Yeah, I mean, and how many people are we actually talking about? How many trans players are actually participating right now in college sports? What do we know about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:58] \u003c/em>Overall, trans people are a really small portion of the American population. And trans athletes are even smaller portion of that small portion. And the ones that make it to the level of Division one, college sports, it’s kind of very small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:17] \u003c/em>So Brooke Slusser and the other people behind the lawsuit are basically arguing that the NCAA rules allowing trans athletes to play violate civil rights law, in particular, Title IX. What are the arguments around that? What have you heard?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:34] \u003c/em>Yeah. I reached out to the plaintiffs lawyers, Brooks Loesser’s, lawyers and others on the NCAA lawsuit, and none of them got back to me for comment. But from the lawsuit, basically they do say exactly that. They just say allowing trans people to play on women’s sports teams in itself violates Title IX.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:54] \u003c/em>On the other hand, you did talk with people who disagree with that interpretation of Title IX, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:00] \u003c/em>Yeah, exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shiwali Patel: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:02] \u003c/em>This would just lead to an incredible marginalization of an already marginalized group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:08] \u003c/em>I talked to a lawyer at the National Women’s Law Center show, Shiwali Patel. She’s a title IX expert, and she had not great things to say about this lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shiwali Patel: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:20] \u003c/em>Title IX can’t be used to justify exclusion of a vulnerable group of students from equal educational opportunities based on how they look or play or who they are. What these plaintiffs are seeking to do is to really turn Title nine on its head and to remove it from its purpose of equal educational opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:39] \u003c/em>She says that this is not really doing anything to protect women’s sports. There’s a lot less access to facilities. There is a lot less funding, there’s a lot less research in order to to prevent injury. Like there’s a lot of stuff here that needs to be done in terms of protecting women in sports. And she says that none of that has anything to do with kicking trans people out of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shiwali Patel: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:06] \u003c/em>There are well-documented actual issues when it comes to gender inequity in sport that if they were to put their resources and time into that, they could be fighting to achieve gender equity. This is not one of them, you know, and trying to exclude trans women and girls from women and girls sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:23] \u003c/em>I know you talked to people who think that banning trans women from sports is part of this larger effort to restrict LGBTQ rights more broadly. What do you hear from people you spoke to about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:36] \u003c/em>I talked to Erin Reid, who is an independent journalist who covers anti-trans legislation all over the country. And she had a really interesting thought about this, that it really isn’t about any sort of particular advantage, that it’s just about discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erin Reed: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:56] \u003c/em>To be clear, you know, we are seeing bans not just in, you know, heavy impact sports, but we’re also seeing bans on transgender athletes and sports like chess and darts and fishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:10] \u003c/em>And she thought that it was interesting that this is folk focusing on sports because she mentioned that she has heard from conservative pundits that sports is actually an easy way to get people who are against the LGBTQ community. It’s an easy entry point for them to start talking about trans issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Erin Reed: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:34] \u003c/em>And many of the same states that started with transgender participation in sports, in fact, not just many. Virtually all of the states, with the exception of Alaska, have gone on to pass gender affirming caravans for trans youth, have gone on to pass other bills like don’t say gay, don’t say trans. We see book bans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:51] \u003c/em>I mean, I can’t imagine. What the last few months must have been like for the San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State volleyball team. I mean, how often did this issue come up for San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State this season?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:06] \u003c/em>It was kind of a constant. Several universities forfeited their games against San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State and that’s part of what made the news so big because they refused to play the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:21] \u003c/em>And to be clear, these teams were forfeiting in protest of this teammate that Slusser alleges is trans. Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:29] \u003c/em>That’s, I think, a safe assumption. But we don’t know that for sure. Most of the the universities have not said that per se.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sia Li’ili’i: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:40] \u003c/em>At the beginning of this season, brave women across our conference were meeting with their coaches and school administration, telling them that they would not play against San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:49] \u003c/em>But for example, in in the case of the University of Nevada, Reno, several of the players from that team attended a rally put on by icons, which is that anti-trans organization that’s funding the lawsuit against the NCAA and spoke about the fact that they are against this supposedly trans player being a part of the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sia Li’ili’i: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:12] \u003c/em>I never expected to be blindsided having to compete against a male athlete. I will continue to fight for my friends, my family, and the next generation of female athletes. All female athletes deserve to be protected at every level and every age. This is unfair and it has to be stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:17:36] \u003c/em>The team while having a obviously a very tough season. And I can’t even imagine what it would be like to be on that team right now. I’m sure that the conversations that are happening are really hard. But they were able to make it to the postseason. And just this past week, they played at the Mountain West Conference tournament and had another high profile forfeit from Boise State. But that got them into the into the final match against Colorado. And they did lose that match, but they made it all the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:18:14] \u003c/em>What if folks from the team said about what this season has been like for them? 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If you took away all of the context and you were just watching them play, I don’t think you would really know that all of this stuff was going on because the two players, Brooks Lesser and the teammate that she says is trans, that she is in court trying to get out of her team. They are playing right next to each other and they’re, you know, for doing pretty well. They won the game. But I went to go see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:33] \u003c/em>San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State’s women’s volleyball season has ended, right? It ended last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:40] \u003c/em>Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:41] \u003c/em>But how do you think this story could still have ripple effects even beyond San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:19:47] \u003c/em>Yeah, I think it is really much bigger than San \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">José\u003c/span> State. And when we’re talking about sort of trickle down effects of this this sort of lawsuit and this sort of larger political conversation about trans people in sports, is that it can affect people of all gender identities. We could talk about the Olympics this past summer and the Algerian boxer, Amani Khalifa, who is a cisgender woman who people sort of decided, maybe she’s trans. And it became this whole thing. Another example is the situation that happened in Utah, which does have a trans sports ban in place. There was a girl playing high school sports and someone on the athletics association and in relation to the school thought that she was trans. And then there was this whole investigation into this child’s gender, unbeknownst to her or her parents. It can really be a problem where we’re now people are sort of pointing fingers at people, young girls and women who maybe don’t fit gender stereotypes and and now have to somehow prove that they are who they say they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:21:07] \u003c/em>Natalia, thank you so much for walking us through this story. I really appreciate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Natalia Navarro: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:21:12] \u003c/em>It. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The significant cuts announced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-state\">Sonoma State University\u003c/a> are not likely to be a one-off, interim President Emily Cutrer warned — other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State University\u003c/a> campuses in the Bay Area are facing similar budget deficits and might have to take the same drastic steps as enrollment and statewide funding decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may be the first, but we’re not the last CSU where you are going to see issues,” Cutrer said Thursday morning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908804/what-sonoma-states-massive-budget-cuts-mean-for-the-universitys-future\">on KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma State is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024772/angry-sonoma-state-university-community-protests-wide-cuts\">eliminating 20 degree programs, six departments and all NCAA Division II athletics\u003c/a> at the end of the academic year to stave off a $24 million budget shortfall — worsened by a 38% decline in enrollment over the last decade. That shrinking student body affects two of the university’s major funding streams: tuition dollars and CSU funding, which the system announced in 2023 that it would reallocate away from campuses that don’t meet enrollment goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other CSUs in Northern California — including Cal State East Bay and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-state-university\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a> — have also faced declining enrollment, saddling them with significant deficits as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, university President Lynn Mahoney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016316/sf-state-lecturers-rattled-by-looming-job-cuts-enrollment-slides\">announced a fiscal emergency\u003c/a> in December, which she told KQED at the time was “just the language that [she] had to use based on a very old [Academic] Senate policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk up to the top of San Francisco State University’s campus in San Francisco, California, on Aug. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, she said in a message to staff that month that the policy allows programs to “be reduced, phased out, reorganized or discontinued.” She also said the university would cut back on hiring staff and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State’s student body has been decreasing since the fall of 2019, and this year, its first-year class was 20% to 25% smaller than anticipated. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018149/san-francisco-state-students-faculty-mourn-job-cuts-funeral-march\">number of faculty lecturers\u003c/a> were informed in the fall that they wouldn’t be teaching classes this semester, and next year, sections of some courses, like introductory writing, will be significantly reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University spokesperson Bobby King said the campus is just beginning to budget for next year, but he expects it to have to make $25 million in reductions based on a 5% decrease in enrollment-based funding and dwindling tuition dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFSU has been working to align budgets with current enrollment trends for several years. But with the additional cuts that appear to be on the horizon, we — unfortunately — will have a lot more work to do,” King told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025974 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/AP24306173842056_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More details will emerge in the coming months, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the university announced that it was beginning to phase out the use of its Romberg Tiburon Campus in Marin County, which has been a research location since 1978. It’s housed the Estuary and Ocean Science Center — which employs three tenure-track faculty members, 11 faculty researchers and nine state-funded employees — since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students haven’t taken courses there since a master’s program in estuary science was discontinued last year, but about 40 conduct research onsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The closure of RTC will allow SFSU to redirect critical funding into the main campus during a challenging period for the University, CSU and the state,” Mahoney said in a statement on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State faculty roles won’t be cut and will be relocated to the main campus. It’s unclear what will happen to the nine state-funded positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State East Bay is also phasing out use of one of its satellite campuses, the Oakland Center, for ongoing “significant savings.” It will terminate its lease at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student walks past the East Bay sign at Cal State East Bay in Hayward on Feb. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are projecting a significant structural deficit,” campus President Cathy Sandeen said in a message to the school community in September. The deficit was around $14 million after enrollment fell further at the start of the fall semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson said Thursday that the campus has been able to save $10 million throughout this budget year but was still looking at discontinuing low-enrolled programs while prioritizing required courses and ensuring faculty assignments align with enrollment demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to closely review all degree programs, minors, and concentrations that have consistently low enrollments, and we will recommend a path forward for those programs,” Sandeen said in a budget update last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven degree programs were identified for discontinuation at the beginning of the 2024–25 academic year and women’s water polo was cut last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last 18 months, 165 lecturers, who taught part-time or up to four classes in a semester, lost their appointments. Jeff Newcomb, the president of Cal State East Bay’s faculty union, said the union was warned that layoffs might still be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandeen said at the beginning of the year that administrators were working with the faculty union since some represented positions might be eliminated and was forming an Academic Senate Layoff Committee to advise on the job cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1920x1079.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José State University’s Washington Square Hall located in downtown San José. \u003ccite>(Sundry Photography via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the CSU system’s 23 campuses will also be hit by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2025/uc-csu-face-cuts-under-newsoms-proposed-budget/724947\">a 7.95% state funding cut\u003c/a>, based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020389/newsom-projects-slight-budget-surplus-with-focus-on-saving-accountability\">Gov. Gavin Newson’s proposed budget\u003c/a>, released in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of such deep funding cuts will have significant real-world consequences, both in and out of the classroom,” CSU Chancellor Mildred García said in a statement at the time. “Larger class sizes, fewer course offerings and a reduced workforce will hinder students’ ability to graduate on time and weaken California’s ability to meet its increasing demands for a diverse and highly educated workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state cuts would cost SF State $20.7 million and Cal State East Bay $11 million next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José State, which saw a 3.5% increase in its student body this year, will see enrollment-based funding go up instead of being trimmed, but spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald called the state’s financial outlook “challenging” for the university. Between the enrollment-based increase and the overall state funding cut, SJSU expects a net reduction of 2.5% to 4%, McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts won’t be finalized until June, when the California Legislature approves a final budget. All of the universities have expressed hope that the state — which has a $363 million budget surplus — will reinstate school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Romesburg, the Sonoma State Women and Gender Studies department chair who is set to be laid off at the end of the year when his department closes, said the state should be stepping up to fund the CSU system, especially as President Trump’s administration targets public institutions and social welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to recognize that doing so is a way of pushing back against all of the ways in which we are being besieged by the federal government and its politics right now,” he said on Forum. “Reinvest in a California-style, quality public higher education system that creates the engines of change and social justice and prosperity and purpose for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The significant cuts announced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-state\">Sonoma State University\u003c/a> are not likely to be a one-off, interim President Emily Cutrer warned — other \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State University\u003c/a> campuses in the Bay Area are facing similar budget deficits and might have to take the same drastic steps as enrollment and statewide funding decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may be the first, but we’re not the last CSU where you are going to see issues,” Cutrer said Thursday morning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101908804/what-sonoma-states-massive-budget-cuts-mean-for-the-universitys-future\">on KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma State is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024772/angry-sonoma-state-university-community-protests-wide-cuts\">eliminating 20 degree programs, six departments and all NCAA Division II athletics\u003c/a> at the end of the academic year to stave off a $24 million budget shortfall — worsened by a 38% decline in enrollment over the last decade. That shrinking student body affects two of the university’s major funding streams: tuition dollars and CSU funding, which the system announced in 2023 that it would reallocate away from campuses that don’t meet enrollment goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other CSUs in Northern California — including Cal State East Bay and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-state-university\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a> — have also faced declining enrollment, saddling them with significant deficits as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, university President Lynn Mahoney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016316/sf-state-lecturers-rattled-by-looming-job-cuts-enrollment-slides\">announced a fiscal emergency\u003c/a> in December, which she told KQED at the time was “just the language that [she] had to use based on a very old [Academic] Senate policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20230822-SFSU-35-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk up to the top of San Francisco State University’s campus in San Francisco, California, on Aug. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, she said in a message to staff that month that the policy allows programs to “be reduced, phased out, reorganized or discontinued.” She also said the university would cut back on hiring staff and administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State’s student body has been decreasing since the fall of 2019, and this year, its first-year class was 20% to 25% smaller than anticipated. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018149/san-francisco-state-students-faculty-mourn-job-cuts-funeral-march\">number of faculty lecturers\u003c/a> were informed in the fall that they wouldn’t be teaching classes this semester, and next year, sections of some courses, like introductory writing, will be significantly reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University spokesperson Bobby King said the campus is just beginning to budget for next year, but he expects it to have to make $25 million in reductions based on a 5% decrease in enrollment-based funding and dwindling tuition dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFSU has been working to align budgets with current enrollment trends for several years. But with the additional cuts that appear to be on the horizon, we — unfortunately — will have a lot more work to do,” King told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More details will emerge in the coming months, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the university announced that it was beginning to phase out the use of its Romberg Tiburon Campus in Marin County, which has been a research location since 1978. It’s housed the Estuary and Ocean Science Center — which employs three tenure-track faculty members, 11 faculty researchers and nine state-funded employees — since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students haven’t taken courses there since a master’s program in estuary science was discontinued last year, but about 40 conduct research onsite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The closure of RTC will allow SFSU to redirect critical funding into the main campus during a challenging period for the University, CSU and the state,” Mahoney said in a statement on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State faculty roles won’t be cut and will be relocated to the main campus. It’s unclear what will happen to the nine state-funded positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State East Bay is also phasing out use of one of its satellite campuses, the Oakland Center, for ongoing “significant savings.” It will terminate its lease at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240205-CalStateEastBayFile-KSM-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student walks past the East Bay sign at Cal State East Bay in Hayward on Feb. 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are projecting a significant structural deficit,” campus President Cathy Sandeen said in a message to the school community in September. The deficit was around $14 million after enrollment fell further at the start of the fall semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson said Thursday that the campus has been able to save $10 million throughout this budget year but was still looking at discontinuing low-enrolled programs while prioritizing required courses and ensuring faculty assignments align with enrollment demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to closely review all degree programs, minors, and concentrations that have consistently low enrollments, and we will recommend a path forward for those programs,” Sandeen said in a budget update last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven degree programs were identified for discontinuation at the beginning of the 2024–25 academic year and women’s water polo was cut last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last 18 months, 165 lecturers, who taught part-time or up to four classes in a semester, lost their appointments. Jeff Newcomb, the president of Cal State East Bay’s faculty union, said the union was warned that layoffs might still be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandeen said at the beginning of the year that administrators were working with the faculty union since some represented positions might be eliminated and was forming an Academic Senate Layoff Committee to advise on the job cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1920x1079.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José State University’s Washington Square Hall located in downtown San José. \u003ccite>(Sundry Photography via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the CSU system’s 23 campuses will also be hit by \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2025/uc-csu-face-cuts-under-newsoms-proposed-budget/724947\">a 7.95% state funding cut\u003c/a>, based on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020389/newsom-projects-slight-budget-surplus-with-focus-on-saving-accountability\">Gov. Gavin Newson’s proposed budget\u003c/a>, released in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of such deep funding cuts will have significant real-world consequences, both in and out of the classroom,” CSU Chancellor Mildred García said in a statement at the time. “Larger class sizes, fewer course offerings and a reduced workforce will hinder students’ ability to graduate on time and weaken California’s ability to meet its increasing demands for a diverse and highly educated workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state cuts would cost SF State $20.7 million and Cal State East Bay $11 million next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José State, which saw a 3.5% increase in its student body this year, will see enrollment-based funding go up instead of being trimmed, but spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald called the state’s financial outlook “challenging” for the university. Between the enrollment-based increase and the overall state funding cut, SJSU expects a net reduction of 2.5% to 4%, McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts won’t be finalized until June, when the California Legislature approves a final budget. All of the universities have expressed hope that the state — which has a $363 million budget surplus — will reinstate school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Romesburg, the Sonoma State Women and Gender Studies department chair who is set to be laid off at the end of the year when his department closes, said the state should be stepping up to fund the CSU system, especially as President Trump’s administration targets public institutions and social welfare programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to recognize that doing so is a way of pushing back against all of the ways in which we are being besieged by the federal government and its politics right now,” he said on Forum. “Reinvest in a California-style, quality public higher education system that creates the engines of change and social justice and prosperity and purpose for all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:10 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after federal education officials on Thursday announced an investigation into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose-state-university\">San José State University\u003c/a> for alleged Title IX violations, the NCAA said it would ban transgender students from participating in women’s sports in line with a new executive order from President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SJSU has been at the center of a nationwide debate since a women’s volleyball player and others sued last year, seeking to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015114/anti-trans-lawsuit-seeks-ban-san-jose-state-volleyball-player-tournament\">bar a player they said was transgender\u003c/a>. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights will look into whether the school discriminated against female athletes and jeopardized their right to equal opportunity and fair play, according to a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San José State University is committed to ensuring that all of our students, including our student-athletes, are treated fairly, free from discrimination, and afforded the rights and protections granted under federal and state law, including privacy rights,” President Cynthia Teniente-Matson said in a statement on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our focus remains on our values including fostering an environment that cultivates compassion, where every student has the opportunity to thrive,” Teniente-Matson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NCAA, which has also faced public criticism for allowing transgender athletes to compete on women’s teams, announced Thursday afternoon that it is changing its participation policy to align with the federal regulations established by Trump. Under the association’s new policy, student-athletes who are assigned male at birth will be prohibited from competing on a women’s team regardless of gender identity, although the rule also applies to cisgender female athletes who are taking testosterone treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015202\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team jumps for the ball during their home game against the University of New Mexico Lobos on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The policy changes do not affect NCAA competitive men’s sports, and all students will still be permitted to practice on a team consistent with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today’s student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions,” Charlie Baker, NCAA president, said in a statement on Wednesday. “To that end, President Trump’s order provides a clear, national standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Temprano, managing director of the nonprofit Equality California, said the NCAA’s decision is deeply disappointing and further marginalizes vulnerable students who actually make up a very small percentage of student-athletes. Less than 0.002% of NCAA athletes are transgender, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about aligning with federal policy,” Temprano said. “Trump does not get to dictate from on high what the laws are in the United States of America. Congress was the one that enacted Title IX to outlaw sex discrimination in schools for all students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Institutions need to band together to resist the Trump administration instead of following its orders blindly, Temprano said, adding that now is the time for schools to reaffirm their commitment to protecting their transgender athletes and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\">executive order\u003c/a>, the latest in a series of directives targeting transgender people and what the president has labeled “Gender Ideology Extremism,” federal agencies are directed to withhold funding from institutions that allow transgender students to participate in sports teams that do not align with their biological sex. According to the Trump administration, the order protects female students from the biological athletic advantages associated with the male sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence that transgender women who medically transition have any universal athletic advantages over their cisgender counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg\" alt=\"People wearing volleyball uniforms shake hands near the volleyball net.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team greets their opponents, the University of New Mexico Lobos, before playing their home game on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By using the Department of Education to enforce the policy, the Trump administration is changing the interpretation of Title IX, a 1972 civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funding. Last month, a federal judge in Kentucky \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/title-ix-lgbtq-transgender-biden-605ed79a22633f4c791058994d8ed5de\">rejected a Biden administration rule\u003c/a> that used Title IX to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, striking down expanded protections for LGBTQ students and opening the door for Trump’s move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last week, the U.S. Department of Education notified K-12 schools and higher education institutions of a return to enforcing Title IX protections on the basis of biological sex,” reads the press release announcing the investigation. “Yesterday’s Executive Order ensures that federally funded institutions of higher education prioritize fairness and safety in women’s sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association are also facing separate investigations by the department for similar Title IX allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12015114 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-12-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The previous administration trampled the rights of American women and girls — and ignored the indignities to which they were subjected in bathrooms and locker rooms,” Craig Trainor, the acting assistant secretary for civil rights, said in the press release, echoing the anti-trans rhetoric that Trump and other Republicans have used to target transgender women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools at the National Women’s Law Center, told KQED that courts have affirmed Title IX protections extend to transgender students in multiple contexts, including sports and bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Utilizing the Title IX enforcement process as a way to engage in discrimination against trans women and girls, to essentially weaponize this critical civil rights law and turn it on its head, is such a gross abuse of power,” Patel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy surrounding SJSU women’s volleyball began last fall when some schools, including the University of Wyoming and Boise State University, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007485/san-jose-state-volleyball-faces-wave-of-forfeits-in-apparent-protest-over-transgender-athlete\">refused to play against the Spartans\u003c/a> in an apparent protest against NCAA policies allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports. Several members of the team and others in the Mountain West Conference, including Spartans co-captain Brooke Slusser, filed a lawsuit against SJSU and the conference in November and asked that the courts issue an emergency injunction barring the athlete from playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the SJSU player who was targeted by the lawsuit has never spoken publicly about her gender identity, KQED is not identifying her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immediate injunction request was rejected by both U.S. District Judge S. Kato Crews and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on the grounds of sex discrimination and lack of evidence that the player’s participation would cause irreparable harm. The larger lawsuit is still ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another lawsuit was also filed earlier that year against the NCAA by former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, accusing the athletics association of discriminating against cisgender women by allowing a transgender athlete from the University of Pennsylvania to compete in the national championships. Slusser is also a plaintiff in that suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/nnavarro\">\u003cem>Natalia Navarro\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our focus remains on our values including fostering an environment that cultivates compassion, where every student has the opportunity to thrive,” Teniente-Matson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NCAA, which has also faced public criticism for allowing transgender athletes to compete on women’s teams, announced Thursday afternoon that it is changing its participation policy to align with the federal regulations established by Trump. Under the association’s new policy, student-athletes who are assigned male at birth will be prohibited from competing on a women’s team regardless of gender identity, although the rule also applies to cisgender female athletes who are taking testosterone treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015202\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-09-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team jumps for the ball during their home game against the University of New Mexico Lobos on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The policy changes do not affect NCAA competitive men’s sports, and all students will still be permitted to practice on a team consistent with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strongly believe that clear, consistent, and uniform eligibility standards would best serve today’s student-athletes instead of a patchwork of conflicting state laws and court decisions,” Charlie Baker, NCAA president, said in a statement on Wednesday. “To that end, President Trump’s order provides a clear, national standard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Temprano, managing director of the nonprofit Equality California, said the NCAA’s decision is deeply disappointing and further marginalizes vulnerable students who actually make up a very small percentage of student-athletes. 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Congress was the one that enacted Title IX to outlaw sex discrimination in schools for all students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Institutions need to band together to resist the Trump administration instead of following its orders blindly, Temprano said, adding that now is the time for schools to reaffirm their commitment to protecting their transgender athletes and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports/\">executive order\u003c/a>, the latest in a series of directives targeting transgender people and what the president has labeled “Gender Ideology Extremism,” federal agencies are directed to withhold funding from institutions that allow transgender students to participate in sports teams that do not align with their biological sex. According to the Trump administration, the order protects female students from the biological athletic advantages associated with the male sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence that transgender women who medically transition have any universal athletic advantages over their cisgender counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg\" alt=\"People wearing volleyball uniforms shake hands near the volleyball net.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team greets their opponents, the University of New Mexico Lobos, before playing their home game on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By using the Department of Education to enforce the policy, the Trump administration is changing the interpretation of Title IX, a 1972 civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funding. 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After taking multiple measurements from about 100 locations, his lab observed a hundreds-fold rise in the concentration of the three toxic heavy metals along the top layer of the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello said his team linked the heightened levels to the fire because the concentration of the heavy metals was only elevated in the top millimeters of the soil, indicating that they were recently deposited. The spherical nanoparticles they found are also used in materials for lithium-ion batteries, connecting the contamination to the battery fire, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire burns at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Iman-Floyd Carroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are clearly the type of material from a battery, so you can link directly the occurrence increasing of this toxic heavy metal to the source, which is a battery,” he said. “The line of evidence from a scientific perspective is pretty solid. There’s no other explanation as to why before the concentrations were much lower and now are much higher, and those elements are linked to those nanoparticles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA had set up nine monitoring stations to monitor the air for small particulate matter and hydrogen fluoride, a highly toxic gas emitted by lithium-ion battery fires, for the four days after the fire broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said that they did not detect heightened levels of the pollutants, and neither did a company hired by Vistra to detect the same two compounds. A Facebook group of almost 3,000 locals in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, however, has amassed discussion of headaches, sore throats, nausea and other symptoms that residents believe could be related to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Polkabla, the principal industrial hygienist with BioMax Environmental, a consulting firm specializing in hazardous materials and industrial hygiene, told KQED last week that the EPA’s air monitoring stations wouldn’t tell the full story because hydrogen fluoride likely wouldn’t be detectable once the plume of smoke was cleared. He also raised the alarm about metals like cobalt, manganese and nickel, along with lithium, and pushed for soil and water testing both at the battery facility and in nearby areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023562 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County, which was initially vague about whether it would test water and soil around the power plant, announced Thursday that it would work with the state to collect water, debris and dust samples at and around the Vistra facility. A spokesperson for Vistra said the company “might” test soil “if there are indications around the site that there might be some compounds or constituents that we think need to be tested.” The company did not respond to a request for comment on Monday about what the company’s most recent plans are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county said Monday that it was currently analyzing soil and water samples with experts from the California Department of Public Health, state-level EPA and epidemiologists, looking for any potential health concerns and determining next steps. A spokesperson said they hope to provide preliminary results later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public health and environmental safety remain our top priorities, and we are committed to providing transparent, science-based updates to the community as we assess the findings in collaboration with our state and federal partners,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello’s team is also turning to assess the impact of their findings on the Elkhorn Slough, which he said is the second-largest estuary in California and one of the most diverse and essential ecosystems for hundreds of fish and bird species. It acts as a carbon sink and buffer for sea level rise, he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to understand exactly how those particles move through the soil, whether they get in the groundwater, whether they’re getting to waterways and how they may move to the food web — from microbes in the sediments to invertebrates in the soils or in the water to fish and mammals,” Aiello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While those particles are interacting with the environment, they will change,” he continued. “The different toxic metals will start reacting with the surroundings, so that will change a molecular form, and they might become bioavailable. That’s something that we need to study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the potential impact on the food chain, it’s also unknown how the heavy metals will affect people who live nearby or were exposed during the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobalt has been associated with cardiomyopathy, lung disease and hearing damage, while nickel is categorized as a carcinogen, according to the National Institutes of Health. Manganese can “cause a disorder alike to idiopathic Parkinson’s disease,” the site said, and all three have been known to cause negative effects at the cellular and molecular levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/danbrekke\">\u003cem>Dan Brekke\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:40 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a judge’s decision not to ban a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose-state-university\">San José State\u003c/a> volleyball player from this week’s Mountain West Conference tournament, the latest turn in a case that has thrust the university into a nationwide debate over transgender athletes in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit filed by Spartans co-captain Brooke Slusser, among others, targeted a player on the team who plaintiffs say is transgender. They argued that letting her play would be sex discrimination, but U.S. District Judge S. Kato Crews on Monday denied their request for an injunction, citing a 2020 Supreme Court ruling noting that federal laws against sex discrimination bar discrimination based on gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews also said the plaintiffs should have filed earlier and did not show that they would suffer irreparable harm from the SJSU athlete playing in the Mountain West tournament, which begins Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slusser and the other plaintiffs immediately filed an emergency appeal, but one day later, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Crews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Plaintiffs’ claims appear to present a substantial question and may have merit,” the appeals court said in its ruling. “But plaintiffs have not established clear entitlement to relief, and however potentially meritorious, their showing does not rise to the level of clear entitlement under the appropriate standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015196\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team prepares for the serve from their opponents, the University of New Mexico Lobos, at their home game on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Civil rights experts had said keeping the player out of the tournament would violate the federal law, Title IX, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936552/how-new-title-ix-rules-could-affect-californias-transgender-and-nonbinary-students\">prohibits sex-based discrimination\u003c/a> and sexual harassment in educational settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trans students have protections under Title IX, and they have protections under the Constitution’s equal protection guarantee,” said Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools at the National Women’s Law Center. “It’s just kind of one tactic that we’ve seen extremists apply in trying to exclude trans people from civil rights protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the SJSU player being targeted in this lawsuit has never spoken publicly about her gender identity, KQED is not identifying her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Monday, the university said it “will continue to support its student-athletes and reject discrimination in all forms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All San José State University student-athletes are eligible to participate in their sports under NCAA and Mountain West Conference rules,” the statement said. “We are gratified that the Court rejected an eleventh-hour attempt to change those rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José State University students (from left) Javier Ruiz, Ollie Harter and Louie McDonough hold handmade signs supporting the Spartans Volleyball team at their game in San Jose on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This lawsuit is just the latest legal action involving the SJSU volleyball team. Slusser is also a plaintiff in another suit challenging a NCAA policy that allows trans women to play under some circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Slusser joined that suit led by former University of Kentucky swimmer and anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, four teams have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007485/san-jose-state-volleyball-faces-wave-of-forfeits-in-apparent-protest-over-transgender-athlete\">refused to play the Spartans\u003c/a> in apparent solidarity with Slusser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anti-trans advocacy group ICONS funds both lawsuits and claims that trans women have an unfair advantage that puts other players in danger of injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence that transgender women who medically transition have any universal athletic advantages over their cisgender counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits and forfeits have drawn the attention of conservative media outlets, in particular, and have fired up Republicans, including President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking on Fox News in October, he said he plans to ban all transgender women from competing in women’s sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241120-TransgenderAthletes-03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San José State Spartans volleyball team greets their opponents, the University of New Mexico Lobos, before playing their home game on Nov. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Natalia Navarro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The controversy is being mirrored in secondary school athletics. Stone Ridge Christian High School in Merced could face sanctions from California’s high school sports governing body after it forfeited a playoff girls’ volleyball game on Saturday against San Francisco Waldorf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything we do at Stone Ridge Christian Academy reflects Biblical truth,” Julie Fagundes, campus administrator at Stone Ridge Christian Academy, said in an emailed statement. “Girls must compete against girls in sports because that is how God created us and SRC will not be complicit in a false message about sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fagundes sent a letter to parents claiming Waldorf has “a male athlete playing for their team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is really, really hurtful, I think, to take such a tiny little minority community and target them cruelly and attempting to ban them from accessing things that not just that they enjoy, but that actually help them develop into better people,” said Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Interscholastic Federation has a policy stating all students are permitted to participate in gender-separated sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007485 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SanJoseStateUniversityGetty1-1020x573.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Waldorf has not responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for civil rights and trans inclusion say there is an essential flaw in arguments that excluding trans athletes protects the rights and safety of women and girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can actually go to Riley Gaines’ Twitter, and she’ll specifically say that it was never about [competitive] advantages,” said independent journalist Erin Reed, who covers anti-trans legislation nationwide. “And that’s why you see bans in things like chess and darts and fishing. It’s not because of any sort of hypothetical advantage that a trans person might have. It’s because it’s all about exclusion, period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patel is concerned that the bans sought by these lawsuits and politicians like Trump will actually put cisgender women and girls more at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That really contradicts Title IX’s broad purpose and does nothing to protect gender equity in sports, and instead subjects women and girls to more harm, to gender policing, to scrutiny as to whether or not they are a ‘real woman or girl,’” Patel said. “And we’ve seen, especially from professional sports, the impact on Black and brown women and girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, this summer, a Utah high school athletics association \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sports-education-utah-school-athletics-government-and-politics-dc6451adde255f47e31229f502f773ad\">secretly investigated a female athlete\u003c/a> — without notifying her or her parents — over questions about whether she was transgender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, more than 20 states have laws banning transgender students from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Slusser is also a plaintiff in another suit challenging a NCAA policy that allows trans women to play under some circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Slusser joined that suit led by former University of Kentucky swimmer and anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, four teams have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007485/san-jose-state-volleyball-faces-wave-of-forfeits-in-apparent-protest-over-transgender-athlete\">refused to play the Spartans\u003c/a> in apparent solidarity with Slusser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anti-trans advocacy group ICONS funds both lawsuits and claims that trans women have an unfair advantage that puts other players in danger of injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence that transgender women who medically transition have any universal athletic advantages over their cisgender counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits and forfeits have drawn the attention of conservative media outlets, in particular, and have fired up Republicans, including President-elect Donald Trump. 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Stone Ridge Christian High School in Merced could face sanctions from California’s high school sports governing body after it forfeited a playoff girls’ volleyball game on Saturday against San Francisco Waldorf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything we do at Stone Ridge Christian Academy reflects Biblical truth,” Julie Fagundes, campus administrator at Stone Ridge Christian Academy, said in an emailed statement. “Girls must compete against girls in sports because that is how God created us and SRC will not be complicit in a false message about sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fagundes sent a letter to parents claiming Waldorf has “a male athlete playing for their team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is really, really hurtful, I think, to take such a tiny little minority community and target them cruelly and attempting to ban them from accessing things that not just that they enjoy, but that actually help them develop into better people,” said Honey Mahogany, director of San Francisco’s Office of Transgender Initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Interscholastic Federation has a policy stating all students are permitted to participate in gender-separated sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The decision, which followed forfeits by Boise State University last week and Southern Utah University last month, came amid mounting pressure from Wyoming lawmakers, including \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GovernorGordon/status/1841234858468917535\">Gov. Mark Gordon\u003c/a>, who wrote on social media platform X: “I am in full support of the decision by @wyoathletics to forego playing its volleyball match against San Jose State. 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KQED is not naming the teammate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, SJSU spokesperson Michelle Smith McDonald confirmed that all volleyball team members comply with the NCAA and the Mountain West Conference rules and regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is disappointing that our SJSU student-athletes… are being denied opportunities to compete,” she wrote. “We are committed to supporting our student-athletes through these challenges and in their ability to compete in an inclusive, fair, safe and respectful environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University police are providing security for the team at home and road games, Smith McDonald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican politicians like those in Wyoming and Idaho have voiced support for the teams refusing to play SJSU, advocates for transgender rights are speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is doubling down on a policy of discrimination and exclusion instead of fostering what we should be fostering as part of athletics, which is camaraderie and competition,” said Tom Temprano, a spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ rights organization Equality California. “Instead, we’re centering these divisive values and discriminatory actions, which I would imagine the vast, vast majority of these student-athletes are unhappy with and would be opposed to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SJSU is scheduled to play against Colorado State University on Thursday. 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It was pretty amazing; he was a very remarkable guy,” Fukuda said. “There’ll be a long time before there’s another person like him, I’ll say that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the direction of the man known as Sensei Uchida, Coach Uchida, or more affectionately, “Yosh,” San José State has dominated judo since the early 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When judo made its Olympic debut at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games, Uchida coached the inaugural U.S. team. Since then, 22 San José State Spartans from several different countries and territories have emerged as Olympians from the school’s judo program, with four collecting medals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so proud to be the first judo coach for the United States, and especially for the Japanese Americans who endured so much. I was glad they were able to see a Japanese American representing the U.S. at such a global event,” Uchida said in a 2018 interview with the California State University system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José State President Cynthia Teniente-Matson, in a \u003ca href=\"https://pages.sjsu.edu/index.php/email/emailWebview?email=NjYzLVVLUS05OTgAAAGT_voDpLDFY7xsHKQYo03h5k3PzgxZHuNQHVnzx4TVn7YhFHU9_Iuxa1fk87ONFs-91mo9pRbSXLaxZs_vkyrCfd098v5jXKFySQ\">campus-wide message\u003c/a> that included a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://vimeo.com/970267756?share%3Dcopy&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1719617862010387&usg=AOvVaw1LO3ci9uoWXrfKPfOfryMk\">tribute video\u003c/a>, called Uchida “one of the most renowned and accomplished Spartans in the history of the university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uchida was born in 1920 in Calexico. He grew up in Garden Grove, and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660424/san-joses-own-grandfather-of-judo-still-kicking-at-98\">a 2018 interview with KQED\u003c/a>, he said his parents noticed his zeal for American culture. They introduced him to judo as a way to connect him with his heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not learning any Japanese culture. They said, ‘We gotta change that!’” Uchida said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a freshman at San José State in 1940, Uchida obliged a request to teach judo as a student coach, which he did for two years before being drafted into the Army during World War II. While he was on duty, his own family was being separated and put into incarceration camps across the American West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After returning in 1947, he helped San José State organize and sponsor the first nationwide Amateur Athletic Union championship in 1953. Since then, San José State has won more competitions than university clubs in the rest of the country combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While supporting the growth of judo, Uchida also studied biology at the university, graduating in 1947. He worked as a laboratory technician at O’Connor Hospital and then at San José Hospital and eventually bought a medical lab, growing the business before selling it more than 30 years later, according to the federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uchida gave back to his community, helping students when needed and he “became a driving force in investing more than $80 million into housing and commercial businesses to revitalize San José’s Japantown,” Tenitente-Matson said. He also founded the Japanese American Chamber of Silicon Valley in 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He founded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjbjudo.org/\">San José Buddhist Judo Club\u003c/a> because Japanese Americans were discriminated against and frequently barred from patronizing local gyms and health clubs, Dan Kikuchi, an instructor at the club, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kikuchi grew up with Uchida as a neighbor, later becoming his student, family friend and mentee. He worked with him as a judo teacher at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was all about bringing rights and recognition to a generation that were interned in camps, their own sons had to serve in the U.S. military. And coming out of that, there was so much prejudice against them,” Kikuchi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kikuchi recalled when he fought in the 1974 national collegiate championship judo competition. Under Uchida, the San José State team had a 12-year consecutive winning streak on the line, and they were struggling in the final rounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these coaches were yelling and jeering at him saying, ‘You’re finished, you’re done.” Kikuchi began to cry as he remembered feeling like he and his teammates had let Uchida down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kikuchi said Uchida proudly ignored the other coaches while walking through the gym, and it inspired Kikuchi and two others to win their matches, catapulting the team into another title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s always kept his head up, always forged ahead and said, ‘You know, we could do this, we could do this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uchida in 2018 said he believes sports can help people grow outside the dojo as well. “As students work out and get better and better, it gives confidence to push forward,” the coach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outpourings of love, admiration and respect were spreading across social media on Friday from people who knew Uchida, and who were coached by him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has impacted so many aspects of not only USA Judo, but the world wide Judo,” David Williams, a former student of Uchida’s, judo coach, and San José State professor, wrote in an Instagram tribute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is okay to be sad to a degree, but I would hope that we would decide it is better to applaud all the wonderful things he has done and the lives that he has influenced and mentored,” Williams wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arash Soofiani, a former student of Uchida and the owner of Westside Judo in Southern California, thanked Uchida in an Instagram post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What a legendary life. The Father of SJSU Judo and many legacies in the judo community and beyond. He made sure we all put our hearts into our education as well as our judo careers,” Soofiani wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though there is much sadness across the judo community because of Uchida’s death, Fukuda said he and others have great memories with the coach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He will be terribly missed,” Fukuda said. “He will always be remembered in a wonderful light as a pillar of strength and as a really good person who gave his all for judo because he believed in what judo could and did do for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uchida is survived by his daughters Lydia Uchida-Sakai and Aileen Uchida, grandchildren Michael and Kyle Sakai, and step-grandchildren Abigail and Jared Shapiro, the federation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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