Inside San Jose State's police battle to protect women's athletes threatened by a transgender culture war
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Multiple sources at San Jose State University revealed details of the police protection that the volleyball team has received amid a nationwide controversy.
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"One of my teammates got a DM, basically saying that she, and then my team, needed to keep my distance from me on gameday against Colorado State, because it wasn’t going to be a good situation for me to be in and that my team needed to keep their distance," Slusser told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. "They needed to keep their distance from me during the game, because something was going to happen to me.
"This was the first physical threat when we could easily see that they wanted to physically harm one of us."