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At least eight high school volleyball teams in California have confiscated a team with a well -known transgender athlete.
The Jurupa Unified School District (Jusd) confirmed that the Patriot High School had lost his game on September 26 at Jurupa Valley secondary school, which displays the Trans and Hernandez athlete. Patriot and Jurupa Valley are in the same school district, the Jurupa Unified School District (Jusd).
“We can confirm that the Patriot High School volleyball team will lose their match on September 26,” Jusd said in a statement at PK Press Club Digital.
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Ab Hernandez, a transgender student at Jurupa Valley high school, poses for photos with her medals at the California high school and secondary school championships in Clovis, California, Saturday, May 31, 2025. (Ap photo / Jae C. Hong)
The confiscation of Patriot marked the first confiscation of Jurupa Valley by a school of his own district.
Jurupa Valley saw three packages in a weekend at the Highway Games Tournament on September 13, with Aquinas High School, Yucaipa High School and San Dimas High School refusing to play Jurupa Valley.
Before that, Riverside Poly High School, Rim of the World High School, Orange Vista High School and Ab Miller High School were all confiscated to Jurupa Valley.
Three of the current and ancient teammates of Hernandez filed a complaint against the Jurupa Unified School District (JUDE), the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) and the California Department of Education (CDE) on their experience of sharing a team and cloakroom with the trans athlete.
The two current trial teammates, the seniors Alyssa McPherson and Hadeel Hazameh, previously told PK Press Club Digital that they were moving away from the team as long as the Trans athlete participates. The third applicant is the older sister of McPherson, Madison, who graduated last year.
“The applicants were intimidated by an intentionally hostile environment created by the defendants in which they were victims of intimidation by school officials to censor their objections to competition with a man and a man and to share intimate and private spaces with a man,” said the trial.
The McPherson family, who identify as practicing Catholics, claimed to “believe that God has created human beings like men and women and that gender is a fixed characteristic which cannot be modified. Their faith informs their understanding of human identity and shapes their point of view concerning the importance of recognizing and honoring the distinctive of men and women created by God”
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Meanwhile, Hazameh and his family identify themselves as practicing Muslims “whose religious obligations prevent [Hernandez] From the exposure of his hair or his body to men, including by wearing a hijab. Guided by Islamic lessons, they believe that men and women have distinct differences, roles and biological responsibilities, which should be respected and confirmed “by court documents.
The Jusd directly encouraged criticisms to approach the issue with government representatives and legislators, in a statement previously provided to PK Press Club Digital, but the school district did not comment on the trial.
“School districts do not write laws for the State of California, and they do not have the power to ignore or modify them. However, as an agencies mainly funded by the State, they are required to follow them. As these questions take place before our courts and the media, all plead on these questions should be directed to states and federal officials elected to make laws and policies the declaration.
A CDE spokesperson told PK Press Club Digital: “California Department of Education cannot comment on this question, because we cannot comment on the disputes in progress.”
The CIF did not respond to the requests for response from PK Press Club Digital at the trial.
The office of the governor of California Gavin Newsom made a statement to PK Press Club Digital in response to the complaints of athletes and parents, which suggests that the responsibility is the responsibility of the CIF, CDE and the State legislature, but not on him.
“CIF is an independent non -profit organization that governs high school sports. The California Ministry of Education is a separate constitutional office. None of the two is under the authority of the governor,” the statement said.
“CIF and the CDE declared that they followed the existing state law – a law which was adopted in 2013 and signed by Governor Jerry Brown (not Newsom) and in accordance with 21 other states. For the law to change, the legislative assembly should send the governor a bill. They did not do so.”
