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At least eight high school volleyball teams in California have forfeited a team with a well -known transgender athlete.
Jurupa Unified School District (JUSD) confirmed that Patriot High School has lost its 26th September match to the Jurupa Valley High School, who leads Trans Athlete AB Hernandez. Both Patriot and Jurupa Valley are within the same school district, Jurupa Unified School District (JUSD).
“We can confirm that the Patriot High School Volleyball team is losing their 26th September match,” Jusd said in a statement to Pakinomist Digital.
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AB Hernandez, a trans-gender student at the Jurupa Valley High School, poses for photos with his medals at California High School Track-and-Field Championships in Clovis, California, Saturday 31 May 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Patriot’s perdition marked the first forfeiture of the Jurupa Valley of a school within his own district.
Jurupa Valley saw three lost in a weekend in the Freeway Games tournament on September 13, with Aquinas High School, Yucaipa High School and San Dima High School, refusing to play Jurupa Valley.
Before the lost Riverside Poly High School, Rim of the World High School, Orange Vista High School and AB Miller High School Alle for Jurupa Valley.
Three of Hernandez’s current and former volleyball teammates have brought a lawsuit against Jurupa Unified School District (JUSD), California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) and California’s Department of Education (CDE) about their experience of sharing a team and Locker Room with the Trans -Athlet.
The two current teammates in the trial, seniors Alyssa McPherson and Hadeel Hazameh, formerly told Pakinomist Digital that they stepped away from the team as long as the trans -athlete participates. The third plaintiff is McPherson’s older sister Madison, who trained last year.
“The applicants have been intimidated by a intentional hostile environment created by the defendant, where they were bullied by school officials to censor their objections to competing with and against, a man and sharing intimate and private spaces with a man,” the trial reads.
The McPherson family, who identifies as practicing Catholics, claimed to “believe that God created people as male and female, and that gender is a solid trait that cannot be changed. Their faith informs their understanding of human identity and forms their views of the importance of recognizing and honoring the distinctive features of male and women as created by God,” per. Court documents.
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Meanwhile, Hazameh and her family identify as practicing Muslims ”if religious obligations prevent [Hernandez] From exposing his hair or body to men, including by wearing a hijab. Guided by Islamic Teaching, they believe that men and women have different biological differences, roles and responsibilities that should be respected and maintained, “per court documents.
JUSD has directly called on critics to address the question with government officials and legislators in a statement previously delivered to Pakinomist Digital, but the school district has not commented on the trial.
“School districts do not write laws for the state of California, nor do they have the power to ignore them or change them.
A spokesman for CDE told Pakinomist Digital, “California’s education department cannot comment on this matter as we cannot comment on pending litigation.”
CIF has not responded to Pakinomist Digital’s requests for answers to the trial.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office delivered a statement to Pakinomist Digital in response to the complaints of athletes and parents, suggesting that the responsibility falls on CDE, CDE and state legislator, but not on him.
“CIF is an independent nonprofit that controls high school sports. California’s educational department is a separate constitutional office. Neither of them is under the author’s authority,” the statement reads.
“CIF and CDE have stated that they are following the existing state law – a law passed in 2013 and signed by Governor Jerry Brown (not Newsom) and in accordance with 21 other states. In order for the law to change, the legislature would send the governor a bill.”
