Inside the fallout of the SJSU volleyball scandal: ‘This is an obvious problem’

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)

EXCLUSIVE: Employees across the entire California State University System (CSU) came back from lunch to an email on March 6, announcing that their employer was suing PresidentDonald Trump's Department of Education.

It was happening because San Jose State University (SJSU) had a transgender volleyball player on its women’s team for three years, allegedly didn’t tell multiple female teammates that the player was male, and then refused to accept the U.S. Department of Education findings that determined the school violated Title IX.

At least one employee was puzzled, and another was furious.

"Why are men playing on the women’s team[?] This is an obvious problem," an employee of San Francisco State University wrote back to CSU Chancellor Mildred Garcia in an email obtained by Fox News Digital via a public records request to CSU.

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An employee of California State University, Northridge wrote back that same day to Garcia, "Mildred, I’d like to see you defend this ridiculous stance when a female takes a volleyball hit to the face from a man and he breaks her nose. There should be NO biological men competing against biological women in any university sport. This is not ‘inclusivity.’"

Most CSU employees who wrote back were supportive of the lawsuit.

But the school was already dealing with one lawsuit from former players over the issue.

SJSU’s Risk Manager Karen Vogler advised weeks earlier in an email to a finance colleague that Education Department's findings