FROM FOX NEWS: California high school senior Hadeel Hazameh believes she was brainwashed.
For the previous three school years, she had to watch biological male athletes finish ahead of her in at least seven track and field events. But things got even harder during the volleyball season, when she had to share a locker room with a biological male transgender teammate.
She put her inner feelings and religious duties aside to tolerate it. Now, she’s taking action.
Hazameh, in her final season, has stepped away from her team at Jurupa Valley High School and joined a lawsuit with her family against the Jurupa Unified School District (JUSD), the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) and California Department of Education (CDE).
“I shouldn’t have had to be scared to change in the women’s locker room. I’m not allowed to show my hair or my body to biological males, and I shouldn’t have had to deal with that. I should have had those privacy rights since the second I walked into the locker room since my freshman year,” Hazameh, a practicing Muslim, told Fox News Digital.
“I wish they would just understand there’s some things I just can not do because of my religious faith… there’s stuff I just can’t do and I wish I had more privacy protecting those rights.”
Hazameh also blames Governor Gavin Newsom for what she endured.
“If our governor himself says that it’s unfair, then he’s the one who should act on it… he should be the one to stand up, it shouldn’t have to be girls like me,” Hazameh said. “What are you here to do?”
Alyssa McPherson, Hazameh’s teammate and a practicing Catholic, is also a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
“I’ve always known that it wasn’t quite right… it didn’t feel right,” McPherson said.
She feels that the issue will pay into the state’s gubernatorial election next year.
“I definitely think this will be a big factor that people will consider,” she said.
“They’re completely disregarding our girls,” Maribel Munoz, the mother of McPherson, told Fox News Digital of the state government. “Having a boy on the team just makes it so difficult… our government, they’re not supporting our kids.”
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