UW Volleyball Forfeits Match To Team With Trans Player

The University of Wyoming women’s volleyball team has decided to forfeit their game with San José State over the team’s transgender player.

Originally UW was set to play the game, but then outside pressure built.

The Cowgirls are the third college team to forfeit over the issue.

Boise State and Southern Utah universities also refused to play over the issue.

After a lengthy discussion, the University of Wyoming will not play its scheduled conference match against San José State University in the UniWyo Sports Complex on Saturday, Oct. 5, (Nick Seeman, UW’s Assistant Athletic Director said in a statement.)

Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will record the match as a forfeit and a loss for Wyoming.

The Cowgirls will host Fresno State on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the UniWyo Sports Complex.

Gov. Mark Gordon backed the decision, writing on X

I am in full support of the decision by @wyoathletics to forego playing its volleyball match against San Jose State. It is important we stand for integrity and fairness in female athletics.

Minds were changed about the game when Wyoming state lawmakers circulated a letter that pressured UW into cancelling the game.

The letter was addressed to UW President Ed Seidel and Athletic Director Tom Burman.

The Legislature has been very clear that the University of Wyoming, being a publicly funded land grant institution, should not participate in the extremist agenda of Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) or propagate the lie that biological sex can be changed, We all know it cannot.

Lawmakers recently defunded UW's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and began working on eliminating DEI from the school.

The Wyoming Citizens were very clear in the last election cycle in which they categorically rejected incumbents and candidates who supported policies promoting or failing to stop the ‘woke’ agenda. (The letter to UW reads).

Down on the public school level Wyoming legislators had recently passed a law banning transgender individuals from participating in middle and high school sports.