San Jose State’s Blaire Fleming sheds light on her tumultuous senior season as a trans athlete in NYT interview

Former San Jose State volleyball player Blaire Fleming publicly acknowledged being a transgender athlete and opened up about her tumultuous final volleyball season with the Spartans in a lengthy, recently published interview with The New York Times Magazine.

Fleming’s senior season was marred by forfeits, frequent online abuse and legal action as she and the Spartans unwittingly became central figures in a national transgender athlete debate that became a divisive topic of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.