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Former San Jose State University volleyball prima Brooke Slusser has been banned from TikTok aft posting respective videos discussing her alleged acquisition sharing a squad and flat pinch a transgender teammate.
"I'm beautiful huffy astir it," Slusser told Fox News Digital.
Slusser's relationship is gone from nan platform, and she has provided screenshots to Fox News Digital showing nan notification of her banishment and an unsuccessful appeal. The notifications mention violations of "community guidelines."
"We inquire that each users travel our Community Guidelines to thief america support a safe, respectful TikTok community," nan notification read.
Brooke Slusser was banned from TikTok aft posting videos discussing nan SJSU volleyball scandal (Courtesy of Brooke Slusser)
Brooke Slusser was banned from TikTok (Courtesy of Brooke Slusser)
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Fox News Digital has reached retired to TikTok for comment.
TikTok antecedently banned nan activistic sportswear marque XX-XY Athletics, which Slusser is signed with, aft it posted an advertisement video advocating for nan protection of women and girls' sports from biologic antheral trans athletes.
TikTok was antecedently owned by nan Chinese institution ByteDance, earlier finalizing a $14 cardinal woody to displacement its U.S. operations to a caller entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, to debar a national ban. However, ByteDance still owns astir 20% of nan company.
Slusser has been nan target of a viral left-wing dislike run connected TikTok and X complete nan past week aft she began to speak retired astir her alleged acquisition astatine SJSU. Her contented started coming retired aft nan university, and nan California State University (CSU) system, filed a suit against the national authorities to situation a Department of Education investigation that wished SJSU violated Title IX successful its handling of a transgender volleyball player.
On X, nan left-wing attacks connected Slusser came successful consequence to an question and reply pinch Fox News Digital successful which she reflected connected surviving successful nan aforesaid flat pinch a transgender teammate, Blaire Fleming.
"You find retired you're conscionable chilling successful a furniture pinch a man that you person nary thought about… I [was] unknowingly sharing a furniture astatine that clip pinch a man," Slusser said successful nan interview, besides alleging that SJSU volleyball coach Todd Kress encouraged her to unrecorded successful nan aforesaid flat arsenic nan trans teammate erstwhile different group of players was besides looking for a last tenant.
The fallout of nan question and reply has prompted high-profile activists, lawmakers and moreover an character to speak out, taking a broadside down aliases against Slusser.
A conjugation of "save women's sports" activists rushed to Slusser's defense, pinch OutKick big Riley Gaines, XX-XY Athletics laminitis Jennifer Sey, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., women's tennis fable Martina Navratilova and erstwhile ESPN prima Sage Steele starring nan complaint to take sides Slusser from nan pro-trans detractors.
"I would conscionable opportunity group that don’t cognize my life aliases my trauma don’t person room to opportunity really bully aliases bad my clip astatine SJSU was. I dream they ne'er person to understand going done thing arsenic atrocious arsenic that," Slusser antecedently told Fox News Digital of nan backlash.
TRUMP ADMIN RESPONDS AFTER SJSU SUES TO CHALLENGE TITLE IX INVESTIGATION INTO TRANSGENDER VOLLEYBALL SCANDAL
After nan U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced astatine nan extremity of January that an investigation into nan assemblage for its handling of a trans jock and different players concluded that the schoolhouse violated Title IX, SJSU and nan California State University (CSU) strategy declined to resoluteness nan violation.
Instead, SJSU President Cynthia Teniente-Matson announced Friday that nan schoolhouse and nan CSU strategy are suing nan national authorities to situation nan investigation.
"Because we judge OCR’s findings aren’t grounded successful nan facts aliases nan law, SJSU and nan CSU revenge a suit coming against nan national authorities to situation those findings and forestall nan national authorities from taking punitive action against nan university, including nan imaginable withholding of captious national funding," Teniente-Matson said Friday.
"This is not a measurement we return lightly. However, we person a work to take sides nan integrity of our institution and nan norm of law, while ensuring that each personnel of our organization is treated reasonably and successful accordance pinch nan law. Our position is simple: We person followed nan rule and cannot beryllium punished for doing so."
The schoolhouse is besides requesting that OCR rescind its findings and adjacent its investigation.
Teniente-Matson affirmed nan university's committedness to defending nan LGBTQ organization successful nan announcement.
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"Our support for nan LGBTQ members of our community, who person knowledgeable threats and harms complete nan past respective years, remains unwavering. We cognize nan attraction nan assemblage has received astir this rumor and nan investigative process that followed person been unsettling for galore successful our community," nan assemblage president said.
Among nan Education Department's findings, it wished that a female jock discovered that nan trans student allegedly conspired to person a personnel of an opposing squad spike her successful nan look during a match. The section claims "SJSU did not analyse nan conspiracy, but later subjected nan female jock to a Title IX title for ‘misgendering' nan antheral jock successful online videos and interviews."
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports newsman for Fox News Digital covering captious governmental and taste issues successful sports, pinch an investigative lens. Jackson's reporting has been cited successful national authorities actions related to nan enforcement of Title IX, and successful bequest media outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press and ESPN.com.
