Former SJSU volleyball star opens up on living with trans teammate without knowing athlete's biological sex

Former San Jose State University co-captain Brooke Slusser claims she shared beds with a trans teammate, not knowing the athlete's birth sex, when the two lived in the same apartment. (Fox News Digital / Jackson Thompson)

Brooke Slusser remembers the day she moved into "the villa."

It was a four-bedroom apartment in San Jose, California with white walls and no decorations. Her mom and dad drove her and all of her things there, all the way from Texas. 

She was the first tenant to show up that semester. 

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Slusser was about to begin her junior year, as a transfer from Alabama, to play her 2023 college volleyball season for SJSU and head coach Todd Kress. 

Slusser alleged Kress is the one who encouraged her to live in that apartment. At the time, there were two apartments filled with SJSU volleyball players that were looking for one more tenant on the lease, she claims. 

But Kress allegedly told Slusser to move into "the villa" because he thought she would "get along better" with the women in that unit, she claimed. 

Slusser lived in the blank-white-walled apartment by herself for her first two days in San Jose. She experienced her first up-close exposure to a homeless man, and witnessed a convention of cosplayers wearing animal costumes, called "furries." 

On day three, Blaire Fleming walked in. 

"He was the first person I met when I got on campus, and we were together, just the two of us, I want to say for the first day or two, after he got there until any of my other roommates showed up," Slusser told Fox News Digital. 

At the time, Slusser had no idea Fleming was transgender. She had no idea they would eventually end up on opposite sides of a national culture war. 

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