Trump claim against SJSU player rebutted after he pledges to ban trans athletes from women's sports

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Former President Donald Trump, referencing a play in a San Jose State women’s volleyball match last week, said Wednesday that he would ban all transgender women from competing in women’s sports if elected.

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“I saw the slam, it was a slam. I never saw a ball hit so hard, hit the girl in the head,” Trump said on the show. “But other people, even in volleyball, they’ve been permanently, I mean, they’ve been really hurt badly. Women playing men. But you don’t have to do the volleyball. We stop it. We stop it. We absolutely stop it. You can’t have it.”

San Diego State disputed Trump’s version of events in a statement Wednesday.

“This did not happen,” SDSU director of athletic communications Jamie McConeghy said in a statement. “The ball hit her in the shoulder. She was uninjured and did not miss a play.” He added that the school has “called for multiple corrections from media outlets.”

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