Multiple rival high schools forfeited scheduled nonleague volleyball matches rather than play Jurupa Valley High, and Orange Vista High removed the match from its schedule. The schools did not respond to emails and text messages asking why they chose to forfeit. Multiple media reports say the forfeitures were protests against AB Hernandez, a 17-year-old senior transgender athlete. Hernandez helped the Lady Jags reach the Southern Section Division 5 volleyball playoffs and won two events while placing second in a third at the state track meet. Hernandez came out in eighth grade and was later publicly identified by a former teacher and a school board president who confronted her at a meet, claiming unfairness.
A transgender high school athlete who won three medals in the state track and field championships last spring, sparking a raucous national debate over gender identity in youth sports, finds herself in an unwanted spotlight again after multiple rivals chose to forfeit volleyball matches rather than play against her and Jurupa Valley High teammates. Three schools all announced they would not to take the court for their scheduled nonleague games with the Lady Jags this month.
None of the schools responded to emails and text messages asking why they chose to forfeit. However multiple media reports say the schools decided not to play in protest of AB Hernandez, a 17-year-old senior transgender athlete on the Jurupa Valley team. Hernandez helped the Lady Jags to the Southern Section Division 5 volleyball playoffs last fall before winning both the high jump and triple jump and placing second in the long jump at the state track meet in the spring.
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