A Bay Area university is once again a flashpoint for the Trump administration’s battle over transgender athletes in school sports. On Wednesday, the Department of Education issued the findings of its nearly year-long investigation into San Jose State University. The department found that SJSU violated Title IX by discriminating against women through “allowing males to compete in women’s sports and access female-only facilities.”  SJSU came into the focus of the Department of Education due to the university’s Women’s volleyball team in recent years, after a lawsuit was filed alleging that one of the players on the team was transgender and multiple opposing teams forfeited their matches against San Jose State. The Department of Education said it is offering San Jose State a deal to “resolve” all of the Title IX violations if the university: Issues a statement to the community adopting the Trump administration’s definitions of ‘male’ and ‘female.’ Separate sports and “intimate facilities” based on “biological sex.” Does not contract with anyone who discriminates on the basis of sex. Restore athletic records the Department of Education said were “misappropriated” due to male athletes competing in women’s categories, and issue an apology letter to each impacted athlete Send an apology to the school’s female volleyball players from certain years and to any women on teams that forfeited to SJSU rather than compete. University leaders say they are going over these findings and weighing how to respond. ...read more read less