I'm not a big fan of creating policy based on emotions and feelings, mostly because I don't think my trauma should dictate the rights and freedoms of others. Then again, I am not a Leftist. For the Left, emotions and feelings are the driving force behind everything they do, and most of that is rooted in hating America, President Trump, and anything that interferes with their agenda (and not always in that order).
But I am a fan of basic fairness and of making the Left live by their own rules. To that end, I have to share this story about the severe trauma and health issues inflicted on athlete Brooke Slusser, the San Jose State volleyball star unfairly targeted for her opposition to "trans' athlete Blaire Fleming.
This is what most people don’t see when it comes to men in women’s sports....the emotional distress that leads to physical harm.
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) November 30, 2025
A male athlete was put on the @SJSU women’s team. The school lied to the women and never disclosed that he was male. Brooke spoke up after realizing… pic.twitter.com/WRUsfiPvu4
"A male athlete was put on the @SJSU women’s team," Gaines wrote. "The school lied to the women and never disclosed that he was male. Brooke spoke up after realizing she had been living with a man and sharing hotel rooms on team trips. For that, the media, news outlets, and her coach vilified her. She became the enemy. The male athlete allegedly conspired to physically harm her for speaking out."
Sunday marked exactly one year since Blaire Fleming and Brooke Slusser's final college volleyball game for San Jose State University.
They had been playing together, traveling together and doing team bonding activities for months even after Slusser took legal action, alleging she was never told Fleming was a biological male transgender athlete. Before that, they had already shared hotel rooms and changing spaces for a whole season in 2023 before Slusser said she even found out.
Slusser now says the panic and stress from that period in her life caused her to develop an eating disorder, which led to severe anorexia that got so bad she lost her menstrual cycle for nine months.
It was so bad, Slusser says, people in her life noticed. "Some of my friends were like, 'You always look tired all the time. You always look dead...'" Slusser told Fox News. "I had a friend later on tell me that when I saw her, she went home and cried to her mom, because she was so worried about me, just because she could tell I looked so unhealthily skinny."
In November of last year, Slusser was one of the women who filed a suit against SJSU over Fleming and the school's trans policy. It was revealed then that Trent Kersten, the coach who recruited Fleming, had suddenly left SJSU after getting Fleming on the team. Kersten "sympathized" with "marginalized groups," reported Outkick, like "trans athletes," including Fleming.
Of course, including "trans athletes" in women's sports is fundamentally unfair. Those men have physical advantages over women and not only steal championships and coveted spots on teams and in tournaments, but they also pose a health and safety threat to the women and girls they compete with and against. Like Slusser, Payton McNabb was a volleyball player. Then a "trans" opponent spiked a volleyball into her face, leaving McNabb with permanent injuries, including a traumatic brain injury. Instead of preventing such injuries from happening again, Democrats like Cory Booker took the side of "trans athletes" — a move that earned rebuke from McNabb's mother, who told the New Jersey Senator, "I will NEVER have another daughter have to be led around while she recovered from a TBI caused by a man in her sport EVER AGAIN. If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you're going to get.
And here's where I hold the Left to their own rules. Just last week, we saw Democrats call for gun control once more in the wake of the D.C. terror attack. An Islamic terrorist shot two National Guardsmen, and Democrats decided, as they always do, that disarming me is the way to fix this.
"If it saves one life," they say.
But they never seem interested in protecting the lives and safety of women when it really matters. They let women like Slusser and McNabb suffer in favor of promoting "trans athletes."
For any other demographic, Democrats would be tripping over themselves and one another to get in front of the cameras and lament how unfair things are, how evil Republicans can be, and to promise they're the party that cares about us. Schlusser and McNabb would be guests at the State of the Union address, emotional pawns in the Democrats' political game. But because those women are victims of the Left's trans agenda, we get crickets.
Why?
Because Democrats have an agenda. Promoting and cementing "trans rights" into our society is part of that agenda.
Protecting women is not.