Media Piles On As Third Team Forfeits Game Against Undefeated Women’s College Team with Trans Man Player

A women’s volleyball team at a major NCAA Division I school that has never started 9–0 has started 9–0. And, as it turns out, it appears to have a transgender man on its team.
Now, its opponents are forfeiting and men in women’s sports is again in the spotlight. What’s to blame for this?
You, of course, the news consumer at home — for noticing!

As the third school in the Mountain West Conference announced it wouldn’t play the San Jose State University Spartans women’s volleyball team, various media outlets blamed a “transphobic legal mess,” a “right-wing website” for supposedly sloppy reporting they couldn’t prove was sloppy, “potential outside antagonists” who might cause problems, and “neg …