First Person: Female College Athlete Speaks Out About and Sues NCAA Over Biological Male On Her Team | Ep. 915

The Megyn Kelly Show

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4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this "First Person" bonus episode, Megyn Kelly is joined by Brooke Slusser, San Jose State volleyball player who is suing the NCAA after finding out a biological male is on her team, to talk about how she ended up on the same women's volleyball team as a male player, how she was never told about him when she transferred to the school, being forced to live with and room with while traveling the male player, what it's like to play on the same team as a male athlete, the unfair physical advantages this player has, her decision to speak out about it and join a lawsuit against the NCAA, the reaction she's gotten from coaches and her teammates, her discussion with the biological male after she went public, the bravery of other schools refusing to play her school, getting death threats over her position, and more. Slusser's lawsuit- https://www.iconswomen.com/take-on-the-ncaa/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Serious XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly.
0:13.0	Welcome to this Megan Kelly show and our special first person episode.
0:18.0	The fight to protect women's sports is underway and right now the focus is on college women's volleyball.
0:24.0	Teams in the Mountain West Conference have recently forfeited games
0:28.0	against San Jose State University
0:30.0	after it was revealed that one of the top players on their team is a male
0:35.3	pretending to be a woman. His name is Blair Fleming and he continues to play
0:41.2	putting these women including those on his own team at risk
0:45.9	and now one of his teammates is bravely speaking out.
0:50.9	Brooke Slusser is a setter on the San Jose State University team.
0:56.0	She recently joined a class action lawsuit against the NCAA and is going public with efforts
1:02.2	by her university to cover up the fact that Fleming is a
1:07.0	male.
1:08.0	Brooke Slessor joins me now.
1:10.0	Brooke, so good to meet you. Thank you so much for being here.
1:15.2	Thank you so much for having me.
1:18.0	You're a courageous young woman because you're still on this team and I know the blowback has been severe. So first just
1:27.0	tell us what made you speak out? What was it? I mean I think it just at the end of the day has so much more to do with right now and
1:37.5	this honestly probably won't affect Blair and playing on my team at this time, but it has to do with the generations
1:46.3	of girls coming through wanting to play Division I sports and making that
1:50.6	change for them so they don't ever have to go through this.
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