Ex-SJSU star Brooke Slusser banned from TikTok after volleyball scandal videos
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Former San Jose State University volleyball star Brooke Slusser was banned from TikTok after posting several videos discussing her alleged experience sharing a team and apartment with a transgender teammate.
“I’m pretty angry about it,” Slusser told Fox News Digital.
Slusser’s account was removed from the platform and he provided Fox News Digital with screenshots showing his notice of deportation and his unsuccessful appeal. The notifications point out violations of “community guidelines.”
“To help us maintain a safe and respectful TikTok community, we ask all users to follow our Community Guidelines,” the notice reads.
Brooke Slusser was banned from TikTok after posting videos discussing the 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 out to TikTok for comment.
TikTok had previously banned Slusser’s activist sportswear brand, XX-XY Athletics, after it published an advertising video advocating the protection of sports for women and girls from biological male trans athletes.
TikTok was previously owned by Chinese company ByteDance, and it closed a $14 billion deal to shift its U.S. operations to a new entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, to avoid a federal ban. But ByteDance still owns about 20% of the company.
Slusser became the target of a viral leftist hate campaign on TikTok and X last week after she began speaking out about her alleged experience at SJSU. Their content began surfacing after college, and the California State University (CSU) system filed a lawsuit against the federal government to challenge a Department of Education investigation that determined SJSU violated Title IX in its handling of a transgender volleyball player.
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“You find out you’re lying in bed with a man you have no idea about… [was] “She was unknowingly sharing a bed with a man at the time,” Slusser said in the interview, alleging that SJSU volleyball coach Todd Kress encouraged her to live in the same apartment with her transgender teammate while another group of players searched for the final tenant.
The fallout from the interview prompted high-profile activists, lawmakers and even one actor to speak out, siding with or against Slusser.
OutKick host Riley Gaines, XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey, Sen. A coalition of “save women’s sports” activists rushed to Slusser’s defense, with Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., women’s tennis legend Martina Navratilova and former ESPN star Sage Steele leading the charge to defend Slusser against pro-trans naysayers.
Slusser previously told Fox News Digital of the reaction: “People who don’t know my life or my trauma have no right to say how good or bad my time at SJSU was. I hope they never have to understand that I went through something as awful as this.”
TRUMP ADMIN RESPONSES AFTER SJSU FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST TITLE IX INVESTIGATION INTO TRANSGENDER VOLLEYBALL SCANDAL
After the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced in late January that an investigation into the university’s treatment of transgender athletes and other players had concluded that the school had violated Title IX., SJSU and the California State University (CSU) system refused to resolve the breach.
Instead, SJSU President Cynthia Teniente-Matson announced Friday that the school and the CSU system would be suing the federal government to challenge the investigation.
“Because we believe OCR’s findings are not based on fact or law, SJSU and CSU filed a lawsuit against the federal government today to challenge these findings and prevent the federal government from imposing punitive sanctions against the university, including withholding critical federal funding,” Teniente-Matson said in a statement Friday. he said.
“This is not a step we take lightly. But we have a responsibility to defend the integrity of our institution and the rule of law while ensuring that every member of our community is treated fairly and lawfully. Our position is simple: We followed the law and we cannot be punished for doing so.”
The school is also demanding that OCR vacate its findings and close the investigation.
In the announcement, Teniente-Matson affirmed the university’s commitment to advocating for the LGBTQ community.
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“Our support for LGBTQ members of our community who have suffered threats and harm over the past several years remains steadfast. We know that the attention the university has received around this issue and the investigative process that has followed have been troubling for many in our community,” the university president said. he said.
Among the Education Department’s findings was that a female athlete allegedly conspired to have a transgender student dunk in the face of a member of the opposing team during a match. “SJSU did not investigate the conspiracy, but subsequently subjected the female athlete to a Title IX complaint for ‘misgendering’ the male athlete in online videos and interviews,” the department said.
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