WASHINGTON, D.C. — Our Bodies, Our Sports, the nation’s first and only coalition of women’s advocacy organizations fighting for fairness in women’s sports, issued a statement following the news that Boise State University’s women’s volleyball team refused to compete against San Jose State University. The game was scheduled for Saturday, September 28. San Jose State University rosters a male athlete on the women’s volleyball team.
Our Bodies, Our Sports coalition has been widely recognized for its work standing up for female athletes and fair play, and for creating the largest, most ideologically diverse women’s movement fighting to protect women’s sports.
“Our Bodies Our Sports coalition applauds Boise State University and Southern Utah University for taking courageous stands on behalf of safety and fair competition for female athletes. We call again on the NCAA to end its crusade of sex discrimination that is destroying women’s sport.”
OBOS women’s rights organizations, feminist organizations, sports organizations, female Olympicans and lawyers include the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, Women’s Declaration International USA, Concerned Women for America, Independent Women’s Forum, Women’s Liberation Front, Women’s Sports Policy Working Group, Champion Women, Independent Women’s Law Center, Young Women for America, Independent Women’s Network, International Consortium on Female Sport, and Independent Women’s Voice, and coaches including 15-year DI baseball coach and current Idaho State Representative Barbara Ehardt and renowned athletes Riley Gaines and Olympians Martina Navratilova, Donna de Varona, and Nancy Hogshead.
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The Our Bodies, Our Sports coalition formed in 2022 to defend women’s sports and the integrity of the female sporting category. Despite political and ideological differences, members of the coalition stand together with gratitude for the generations of female athletes who came before us and in defense of all the women and girls who will come next.
