New details emerge about California high school trans athlete saga suddenly being probed by the Trump admin

After the historical Jan. 13 Supreme Court proceeding connected trans athletes successful women's sports, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced 19 caller investigations into acquisition entities suspected of violating Title IX.

Jurupa Unified School District (JUSD) successful Riverside, California was astatine the precise apical of investigations that ED announced connected Jan. 14. The 2nd entity connected the database was the neighboring district, the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD). Their fates were intertwined amid a nationalist contention involving a trans jock successful 2025. 

Fox News Digital has obtained exclusive details related to the incidents being probed, via a nationalist records request, and grounds from the young women who were impacted. Fox News Digital is not disclosing the sanction of the trans jock successful this circumstantial communicative astatine the petition of the athlete's parent erstwhile we reached retired for comment. However, antecedently the parent and jock person spoken retired publically and the athlete's sanction is wide reported and known.

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A young beingness everlastingly changed

Former Jurupa Valley High School girls' volleyball subordinate Hadeel Hazameh spoke up successful the autumn astir playing with a transgender teammate for the past 3 years, joining a suit against her schoolhouse territory implicit it. 

The acquisition has been truthful traumatizing and hard to navigate. Hazameh sped up her academics to postgraduate aboriginal truthful she wouldn't person to stock the aforesaid hallways arsenic her antagonists. Her past time of schoolhouse was Dec. 19. She volition nary longer beryllium competing successful way and tract this spring. 

"I was looking precise guardant to track… I truly miss volleyball," Hazameh told Fox News Digital. 

Hazameh stepped distant from her volleyball squad successful protestation successful aboriginal September, astir a week earlier officially filing a lawsuit. Hazameh said she ever believed males shouldn't vie successful women's sports, but she besides cited her spiritual beliefs, arsenic a practicing Muslim. She could not beryllium successful the aforesaid changing spaces arsenic a biologic male.

Then came the backlash. Hazameh said her volleyball teammates, but the co-plaintiff successful the lawsuit, Alyssa McPherson, turned connected her. 

Jurupa Valley players Hadeel Hazameh (left) and Alyssa McPherson, who filed a suit against the Jurupa Unified schoolhouse territory successful protestation to transgender subordinate AB Hernandez, ticker during a CIF Southern Section Division 5 girls volleyball playoff lucifer against Valencia, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2025, successful Placentia, California. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)

"After I went nationalist with not supporting biologic men successful women's sports, of course, everyone doesn't similar maine anymore. The lone person I person is Alyssa. And it's okay, honestly. I don't request a batch of friends, I conscionable request the ones that are determination for maine to enactment me," Hazameh said.

The attraction from peers adjacent resulted successful an alleged decease menace from a classmate, who Hazameh alleges was reported to the schoolhouse with nary response.

"People are precise disrespectful. I've been getting precise disrespectful comments, I'll beryllium walking to people and idiosyncratic volition cuss astatine me, oregon I'm beauteous definite idiosyncratic astir told maine to die. And I reported it to the schoolhouse and they didn't bash thing astir it," she added. 

"'They were similar ‘what bash you privation maine to bash for you successful this situation?’ And I'm like, ‘someone conscionable told maine to die. Are you superior close now?’"

Hazameh added, "I was similar this is simply a repeating rhythm with this aforesaid miss and I’ve seen nary consequences. And yes, it was reported formally. I turned successful the yellowish slip, and it was sent to 1 of the receptionists," and that she yet submitted a 2nd gaffe alleging the issues. 

Jurupa Valley High School was unwillingly thrust into a nationalist spotlight past May erstwhile President Donald Trump called retired a concern involving a trans jock astatine the schoolhouse who competed for the girls' way and tract team. The trans jock precocious to the authorities final, prompting Trump to nonstop a Truth Social station informing authorities officials to not fto the jock vie successful the event.

On the past time of May, Jurupa's trans jock went connected to triumph authorities golden successful the precocious leap and triple jump, and finished 2nd successful the agelong jump. 

Trump's Department of Justice past filed a Title IX suit against the authorities successful July for refusing to support biologic males retired of girls' sports. 

When the autumn sports play started backmost up, Jurupa's trans jock returned for a 4th and last twelvemonth of girls' volleyball.

But the 2025 play wouldn't spell arsenic smoothly. In summation to Hazameh and McPherson's protestation and lawsuit, opposing teams began to forfeit, presumably successful effect to the abrupt nationalist consciousness astir the trans athlete. By the extremity of the regular season, astatine slightest 10 games connected the docket were forfeited.

Jurupa Valley High School and different schools that oversaw the forfeiting teams began to corroborate publically the games would not beryllium played. 

A nationalist media firestorm had arrived for the precocious schoolhouse of 1,638 students. 

Newsom's bureau stepped in

In aboriginal September, a typical from Gov. Gavin Newsom's bureau reached retired to JUSD administrators, referencing California's ongoing ineligible conflict against Trump implicit the contented of trans athletes successful girls' sports, arsenic seen successful nationalist records obtained by Fox News Digital. 

Newsom's Legal Affairs Secretary David Sapp sent an email to territory administrators connected Sept. 8 that appeared to see a transcript of the state's question to disregard a lawsuit, filed by Trump's DOJ successful July, implicit the CIF's continued policies that let males successful girls' sports. 

"As discussed, delight spot attached for a transcript of the question to disregard that we filed connected Friday successful USDOJ’s suit astir Title IX," Sapp's email wrote. 

The email was forwarded by 1 territory head to others, to beryllium discussed astatine a gathering connected Sept. 12. The speech besides appeared to bespeak schoolhouse administrators precocious discussed the contented with Sapp himself.

"You tin fto the squad cognize that [JUSD administrator] & I received this from David Sapp with the Governor's bureau connected Monday erstwhile discussing the contented with them and we're passing it on successful lawsuit it is adjuvant for our treatment today," the email wrote. 

Fox News Digital requested minutes and transcripts from the Sept. 12 gathering that the administrator's email referenced from JUSD. The schoolhouse territory responded claiming it had nary records it could stock from the meeting. 

"The September 12 gathering attended by [JUSD administrator] was an informal teleconference, which included, among different attendees, the District's ineligible counsel. There were nary minutes from the teleconference, and [JUSD administrator] did not instrumentality notes oregon make immoderate documents," a JUSD head told Fox News Digital.

"Any notes oregon documents prepared by territory ineligible counsel person not been shared with immoderate different enactment and, arsenic such, are covered by the attorney-client enactment privilege and lawyer work-product doctrine."

JUSD and Newsom's bureau person declined to supply immoderate further clarity connected the interactions betwixt Sapp and the schoolhouse district. 

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A root wrong Newsom's bureau provided a statement, connected background, to Fox News Digital successful effect to an enquiry for clarification connected Sapp's enactment with JUSD administrators. 

"On September 8, 2025, [JUSD] Superintendent [Trenton] Hansen and Dave Sapp spoke regarding the USDOJ suit mentioned successful your email, which includes allegations related to Jurupa USD. Dave followed up to stock a transcript of the State’s Motion to Dismiss, which had been filed the week earlier and was different publically available. Dave did not springiness the territory immoderate directives oregon suggestions regarding its handling of the transgender jock concern oregon related media interactions," the connection read. 

The schoolhouse territory began to consciously disregard media inquiries

JUSD administrators kept a spreadsheet documenting media sum of their volleyball situation, keeping way of the online stories being written and immoderate correspondence with the journalists who wrote them.  

For the archetypal 27 stories, published from Aug. 8 to Sept. 4, the spreadsheet states that either a connection was provided oregon nary petition was made. The territory provided responses for 10 antithetic stories, positive an on-air interrogation for CBS affiliate KCAL and an in-person interrogation for The Press Enterprise.

Then, connected Sept. 6, for the archetypal time, the territory wrote successful the spreadsheet that it chose not to respond to an inquiry. It was for a Fox News Digital communicative connected Hazameh and McPherson stepping distant from the team. 

From Sept. 6 to Jan. 14, the spreadsheet recorded 15 stories successful which the territory stated that it chose not to respond to an inquiry. The outlets who were not fixed responses see OutKick, Fox News Digital, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and Newsweek.

A Sept. 20 email from a schoolhouse spokesperson to a chap head read, "I deliberation I tin disregard this one?" portion forwarding an enquiry regarding forfeits from Fox News Digital. 

"FYI… I americium ignoring this one," a schoolhouse spokesperson wrote successful an email to different administrator, forwarding a media enquiry astir the forfeits from a newsman astatine The Christian Post connected Oct. 20. 

A Sept. 25 email from KCBS2 and KCAL9 News inquiring astir the forfeits was forwarded betwixt administrators, with 1 writing, "Update: He besides near a voicemail wanting to corroborate the forfeit. I’m readying to ignore."

An Oct. 15 email read, "I deliberation we made the close prime by not responding," portion forwarding a Fox News Digital nonfiction astir 1 of the reported forfeits. The schoolhouse did not respond to six inquiries for that peculiar story, arsenic stated successful the spreadsheet.

Jurupa administrators adjacent spoke to each different astir the forfeits that it declined to verify to the press. A Sept. 17 email betwixt administrators referenced 3 forfeits from 3 opposing teams during a play tournament. One email read, "They were this play astatine the Roosevelt Tournament," portion forwarding a quality nonfiction astir the 3 forfeits.

"There were aggregate teams that canceled but were little nationalist due to the fact that it was during tourney play," different email connected the thread wrote.

JUSD confirmed a precocious September forfeit against Patriot High School – a schoolhouse successful their ain territory – to Fox News Digital. 

The spreadsheet states the territory lone responded to 2 full inquiries aft Sept. 6, 1 being to corroborate the Patriot forfeit to Fox News Digital, and the different to corroborate the aforesaid happening to The Press Enterprise. 

Other than those 2 instances, JUSD did not respond to immoderate different inquires aft Sept. 6, per the spreadsheet.

The regular play came to an extremity successful October. Jurupa Valley finished tied for archetypal spot successful the River Valley League and were disconnected to the CIF playoffs. 

That's erstwhile their paths would transverse with students of PYLUSD — the different territory adjacent the apical of the Trump admin's caller database of caller Title IX probe targets.

The past dance

In May 2025, the PYLUSD committee considered a solution to bounds girls' sports to "biological females," but it failed connected a 3-2 ballot because, arsenic noted by a schoolhouse territory representative, "board resolutions cannot overrule authorities law."

Then successful October, a schoolhouse wrong the PYLUSD, Valencia High School, was pitted against Jurupa Valley for the archetypal circular of the girls' volleyball authorities playoffs. 

Valencia's squad opted to play the game. But 2 players connected Valencia did not instrumentality the tribunal that night. 

The parents of 2 pistillate players for Valencia who chose not to play that nighttime antecedently provided a associated statement, the parents accidental was written by the 2 girls, to Fox News Digital connected the information of anonymity.

"On October 18, our squad was informed that we would beryllium playing Jurupa Valley High School successful Round 1 of CIF. When scouting the team, we rapidly realized that they had a transgender subordinate who we would beryllium competing against connected October 22. Ten different teams had antecedently forfeited against Jurupa, which alarmed our squad and led america to see whether we should play oregon not," the connection began.

"Due to our beliefs and values, we decided to beryllium retired and not be our first-round CIF (California Interscholastic Federation) game. We judge that allowing males successful women’s sports is unfair, creates information concerns, and goes against our faith. We worth just contention and integrity successful volleyball, and our anticipation is to proceed playing the athletics we emotion without having to beryllium successful a presumption wherever we cognize the concern is wrong."

The 2 girls went connected to mention their Christian religion arsenic a crushed for not playing, and insisted their actions were not aimed straight astatine the trans athlete.

"As Christians, our determination to beryllium retired of this crippled was not hard to make, but it was uncomfortable being the lone ones to bash so. We chose not lone to beryllium retired from playing, but besides not to be the game, arsenic a mode to amusement our stance and our disagreement. Our extremity was not to azygous retired [the trans athlete], but to explicit our content that biologic males should not vie successful women’s sports," the connection continued. 

"Our determination was not made retired of hatred oregon favoritism toward anyone, but alternatively from our condemnation successful fairness and faith. It is our anticipation that the integrity of women's sports is honored and preserved."

Valencia went connected to triumph the playoff game, ending Jurupa Valley's play and seemingly ending the trans player's precocious schoolhouse volleyball career.

Fans wearingof Jurupa Valley airs during a CIF Southern Section Division 5 girls volleyball playoff lucifer against Valencia, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2025, successful Placentia, California.  (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)

Hazameh and McPherson were determination successful the stands that night. They were joined by a assemblage of section ‘Save Girls’ Sports' protesters, led by salient activistic and erstwhile NCAA women's shot subordinate Sophia Lorey. 

But the protestation wasn't Hazameh and McPherson's archetypal choice. They wanted to beryllium with their teammates connected the squad bench.

Hazameh and McPherson antecedently told Fox News Digital that their girls' volleyball manager instructed them to springiness her anterior announcement if they wanted to beryllium with their teammates connected the seat for games. The girls assertion they told their manager they wanted to beryllium with their teammates for the playoff crippled against Valencia, but were not fixed permission. 

An Oct. 27 email sent by Jurupa Valley High School's adjunct main to Hazameh's mom, Hanan Hazameh, addressed the mother's concerns astir Hadeel not being capable to beryllium connected the seat with teammates. 

"After reviewing the matter, I confirmed that [the coach] did not instruct [redacted] oregon immoderate different subordinate that they were required to inquire for support to beryllium connected the seat during volleyball games. Regarding your interest astir the CIF game, I confirmed that [redacted] was not permitted to beryllium connected the bench," the email read.

"Your email petition regarding sitting connected the seat was sent astatine 5:18 p.m. During that time, I was driving to Valencia High School and did not person entree to my email. I did not spot the connection until aboriginal that evening, arsenic I was assisting with supervision during the crippled to assistance guarantee the lawsuit ran smoothly and safely. If you had called maine earlier successful the time we could person discussed your concerns earlier the game." 

So the 2 teens spent the crippled hanging with "Save Girls' Sports" protesters, who welcomed them with unfastened arms.

It was a tense night. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., re-shared a photograph connected X of 2 California residents who appeared to springiness malicious gestures to Hazameh and McPherson. 

"If you bash this to small girls, your bosom has turned wholly dark," Cruz wrote.

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As Hazameh looks to a aboriginal without sports, she volition look to proceed her education, and is simply a subordinate successful the California question to combat for Title IX. 

It didn't commencement that way. It wasn't her plan. She wanted to play volleyball and tally way and field. But California's policies enactment her successful the aforesaid locker country with a biologic antheral for astir 4 years forced her to this point.

And her communicative is conscionable 1 of the galore crossed California and the state involving girls who person been affected by specified cases. 

As the Trump medication continues its crackdown connected the issue, different girls similar Hazameh, McPherson and others tin lone ticker and anticipation for reconciliation.

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