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Utah State University — one of the schools that forfeited a women’s volleyball match against San José State University in protest of a transgender student athlete on its roster — has asked a judge for permission to join a federal lawsuit against the Mountain West Conference challenging its transgender participation policy. State attorneys representing USU filed a motion to intervene Monday evening. The move came the same day Utah’s top Republican state leaders issued a statement urging the university to join the legal fight on behalf of student athletes who filed the lawsuit, ...