TikTok bans Brooke Slusser after she posts videos discussing SJSU volleyball scandal

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Former San Jose State University volleyball prima Brooke Slusser has been banned from TikTok aft posting respective videos discussing her alleged acquisition sharing a squad and flat with a transgender teammate. 

"I'm beauteous huffy astir it," Slusser told Fox News Digital. 

Slusser's relationship is gone from the platform, and she has provided screenshots to Fox News Digital showing the notification of her banishment and an unsuccessful appeal. The notifications mention violations of "community guidelines."

"We inquire that each users travel our Community Guidelines to assistance america support a safe, respectful TikTok community," the notification read. 

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Brooke Slusser was banned from TikTok aft posting videos discussing the SJSU volleyball scandal (Courtesy of Brooke Slusser)

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Brooke Slusser was banned from TikTok (Courtesy of Brooke Slusser)

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Fox News Digital has reached retired to TikTok for comment. 

TikTok antecedently banned the activistic sportswear marque XX-XY Athletics, which Slusser is signed with, aft it posted an advertisement video advocating for the extortion of women and girls' sports from biologic antheral trans athletes.

TikTok was antecedently owned by the Chinese institution ByteDance, earlier finalizing a $14 cardinal woody to displacement its U.S. operations to a caller entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, to debar a national ban. However, ByteDance inactive owns astir 20% of the company. 

Slusser has been the people of a viral left-wing hatred run connected TikTok and X implicit the past week aft she began to talk retired astir her alleged acquisition astatine SJSU. Her contented started coming retired aft the university, and the California State University (CSU) system, filed a suit against the national authorities to situation a Department of Education probe that determined SJSU violated Title IX successful its handling of a transgender volleyball player. 

On X, the left-wing attacks connected Slusser came successful effect to an interrogation with Fox News Digital successful which she reflected connected surviving successful the aforesaid flat with a transgender teammate, Blaire Fleming.

"You find retired you're conscionable chilling successful a furniture with a antheral that you person nary thought about… I [was] unknowingly sharing a furniture astatine that clip with a man," Slusser said successful the interview, besides alleging that SJSU volleyball manager Todd Kress encouraged her to unrecorded successful the aforesaid flat arsenic the trans teammate erstwhile different radical of players was besides looking for a last tenant. 

The fallout of the interrogation has prompted high-profile activists, lawmakers and adjacent an histrion to talk out, taking a broadside down oregon against Slusser.

A conjugation of "save women's sports" activists rushed to Slusser's defense, with OutKick big Riley Gaines, XX-XY Athletics laminitis Jennifer Sey, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., women's tennis fable Martina Navratilova and erstwhile ESPN prima Sage Steele starring the complaint to support Slusser from the pro-trans detractors.

"I would conscionable accidental radical that don’t cognize my beingness oregon my trauma don’t person country to accidental however bully oregon atrocious my clip astatine SJSU was. I anticipation they ne'er person to recognize going done thing arsenic atrocious arsenic that," Slusser antecedently told Fox News Digital of the backlash.

TRUMP ADMIN RESPONDS AFTER SJSU SUES TO CHALLENGE TITLE IX INVESTIGATION INTO TRANSGENDER VOLLEYBALL SCANDAL

After the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced astatine the extremity of January that an probe into the assemblage for its handling of a trans jock and different players concluded that the schoolhouse violated Title IX, SJSU and the California State University (CSU) strategy declined to resoluteness the violation. 

Instead, SJSU President Cynthia Teniente-Matson announced Friday that the schoolhouse and the CSU strategy are suing the national authorities to situation the investigation.

"Because we judge OCR’s findings aren’t grounded successful the facts oregon the law, SJSU and the CSU filed a suit contiguous against the national authorities to situation those findings and forestall the national authorities from taking punitive enactment against the university, including the imaginable withholding of captious national funding," Teniente-Matson said Friday.

"This is not a measurement we instrumentality lightly. However, we person a work to support the integrity of our instauration and the regularisation of law, portion ensuring that each subordinate of our assemblage is treated reasonably and successful accordance with the law. Our presumption is simple: We person followed the instrumentality and cannot beryllium punished for doing so."

The schoolhouse is besides requesting that OCR rescind its findings and adjacent its investigation. 

Teniente-Matson affirmed the university's committedness to defending the LGBTQ assemblage successful the announcement.

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"Our enactment for the LGBTQ members of our community, who person experienced threats and harms implicit the past respective years, remains unwavering. We cognize the attraction the assemblage has received astir this contented and the investigative process that followed person been unsettling for galore successful our community," the assemblage president said.

Among the Education Department's findings, it determined that a pistillate jock discovered that the trans pupil allegedly conspired to person a subordinate of an opposing squad spike her successful the look during a match. The section claims "SJSU did not analyse the conspiracy, but aboriginal subjected the pistillate jock to a Title IX ailment for ‘misgendering' the antheral jock successful online videos and interviews."

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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports newsman for Fox News Digital covering captious governmental and taste issues successful sports, with an investigative lens. Jackson's reporting has been cited successful national authorities actions related to the enforcement of Title IX, and successful bequest media outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press and ESPN.com.

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