Cali Muslim teen says she reveived loss of life threats after trans athlete controversy

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 give up college sports activities fully.

Former Jurupa Valley Excessive Faculty ladies’ volleyball participant Hadeel Hazameh mentioned the expertise over the past three years was traumatizing, and prompted her to fast-track her research and graduate early final month so she wouldn’t should share hallways together with her detractors.

Consequently, she won’t be competing this spring in volleyball or monitor and discipline — the latter of which transgender athlete AB Hernandez final yr claimed state gold in each the excessive soar and triple soar occasions, thrusting the varsity into the nationwide highlight.

“I used to be wanting very ahead to trace… I actually miss volleyball,” Hazameh advised Fox Information.

The teenager give up volleyball in protest final September, per week earlier than she joined a lawsuit towards the varsity district, led by the agency Advocates for Religion & Freedom.

Hazameh advised 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 workforce, she mentioned all her teammates, apart from 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 mentioned.

“The one buddy I’ve is Alyssa. And it’s okay, actually. I don’t want plenty of pals, I simply want those which can be there for me to assist me.”

Hazameh mentioned she even obtained 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 advised me to die. And I reported it to the varsity they usually didn’t do something about it,” she mentioned.

“‘They have been like, ‘What would you like me to do for you on this scenario?’ And I’m like, ‘Somebody simply advised me to die. Are you severe proper now?’” she recalled.

Final yr Jurupa Valley Excessive Faculty was known as out by President Donald Trump following Hernandez’s success on the track-and-field workforce.

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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 collaborating in girls’s sports activities, which federal officers declare violates Title IX and unlawfully discriminated towards feminine athletes.

Trump signed an govt 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 colleges and athletic packages that don’t comply.

Nationwide, the Schooling Division’s investigations now span 18 college districts and faculties, in keeping with federal officers.