A Muslim teenager claimed her life was ruined after she refused to vary her garments in the identical locker room as a transgender volleyball teammate — a call that ultimately led her to stop college sports activities fully.
Former Jurupa Valley Excessive Faculty ladies’ volleyball participant Hadeel Hazameh stated the expertise during the last three years was traumatizing, and prompted her to fast-track her research and graduate early final month so she wouldn’t must share hallways together with her detractors.
Because of this, she is not going to be competing this spring in volleyball or monitor and subject — the latter of which transgender athlete AB Hernandez final yr claimed state gold in each the excessive leap and triple leap occasions, thrusting the college into the nationwide highlight.
“I used to be wanting very ahead to trace… I actually miss volleyball,” Hazameh informed Fox Information.
The teenager stop volleyball in protest final September, per week earlier than she joined a lawsuit towards the college district, led by the agency Advocates for Religion & Freedom.
Hazameh informed Fox she has all the time believed males shouldn’t be included in girls’s sports activities — however her Muslim religion additionally prohibits her from being in the identical altering areas as a organic male.
After she stepped away from the volleyball group, she stated all her teammates, except for co-plaintiff Alyssa McPherson, shunned her.
“After I went public with not supporting organic males in girls’s sports activities, after all, everybody doesn’t like me anymore,” Hazameh stated.
“The one good friend I’ve is Alyssa. And it’s okay, truthfully. I don’t want numerous pals, I simply want those which are there for me to assist me.”
Hazameh stated she even acquired loss of life threats.
“I’ve been getting very disrespectful feedback, I’ll be strolling to class and somebody will cuss at me, or I’m fairly certain somebody virtually informed me to die. And I reported it to the college they usually didn’t do something about it,” she stated.
“‘They had been like, ‘What would you like me to do for you on this state of affairs?’ And I’m like, ‘Somebody simply informed me to die. Are you critical proper now?’” she recalled.
Final yr Jurupa Valley Excessive Faculty was referred to as out by President Donald Trump following Hernandez’s success on the track-and-field group.
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The college’s opponents started forfeiting volleyball video games this previous fall and, together with the president’s feedback, fueled a nationwide media frenzy on the college, which has round 1,600 college students, in keeping with Fox Information.
The Trump administration introduced it will be increasing its probe into California state coverage permitting organic males taking part in girls’s sports activities, which federal officers declare violates Title IX and unlawfully discriminated towards feminine athletes.
Trump signed an government order in February 2025 directing federal companies to interpret Title IX as barring transgender women and girls from competing on ladies’ and ladies’s sports activities groups, and authorizing the withholding of federal funding from faculties and athletic applications that don’t comply.
Nationwide, the Training Division’s investigations now span 18 college districts and schools, in keeping with federal officers.
