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A teammate of a transgender athlete who plays in a women’s volleyball team of the California high school spoke Monday about the teams that lost the games against them so far this season.
Several schools that competed against the Women’s Volleyball Team of Jurupa Valley High School have already lost this season. Ab Hernández, a transgender athlete that caused controversy during the athletics season in spring, plays for girls volleyball.
Alyssa McPherson appeared in “America reports” of Pak Gazette Channel and regretted that her senior season escaped her due to losses.
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AB Hernández, a transgender student in Jurupa Valley High School, poses for photos with his medals in the Athletics Championships of California High School in Clovis, California, on Saturday, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
“I feel that it is so unfair that I am not only missing my senior season, but that my other teammates, our JV team and our first -year team do not play either,” said McPherson. “And he is so discouraging that they will not have a season and we only want to compete, play and have fun.”
McPherson added that he hoped to have fun in his last season of female high school volleyball, but is beginning to feel that they are “stealing” her teammates.
“For me, I feel this is just a problem of equity,” he said. “I just want to compete and play and have fun in my last year. I feel that they stole that. I’ve been looking forward to my first year and I don’t have the opportunity to do it this year. It’s very sad.”
Maribel Muñoz, McPherson’s mother, said she has talked to school administrators on the subject that faces her daughter and the rest of the program.
“I have complained several times to the administration and simply ignore our feelings, our position, really,” Muñoz said. “I think they focus more on a particular student compared to the many. And that’s why we are here. We want the consciousness of my daughter and the other girls who are losing this opportunity.”
She explained why her daughter really did not see the controversy as a security problem.
“The security problem: it does not see it to the measure of that because it also plays at a high competitive level,” Muñoz said. “She plays in a volleyball club team. She is used to a higher caliber. Therefore, she does not see it as a security (problem) in that aspect. It is the injustice and injustice that they are treating us right now.”
AB Hernández, Center, shows a signal while sharing the first place on the podium with Jillene Wetteland, left and Lelani Laruelle during a medal ceremony for the high jump in the Athletics Championship of the California High School in the California School in the Athletics Championship in Secondary School in Clovis, California, on Saturday, May 31, 2025. Teven. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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There were two more errors during the weekend.
Jurupa Valley went to losses in a statement to Pak Gazette Digital.
“We understand and recognize the disappointment of our athletes from Jurupa Valley High School that are ready and prepared to play. Decisions to cancel matches were taken by teams in other districts,” reads the statement.
“As a public school district in California, Jusd is forced to follow the law, which protects students from discrimination based on gender identity and requires that students are allowed to participate in athletic teams that are consistent with their gender identity (California education code 221.5 (f). This is consistent with the guide provided by California general lawyer Rob Bronta and the state superintendent of California of the public instruction of Tony Tony Tony Tony Tony Tony Tonony.
“We are proud of our JVHS Jaguares and his willingness to play any team and represent his school and our district with pride. We are currently working to find additional matches to give them that opportunity.”
National attention was re -entered into jurupa Valley High School when the Riverside Poly High School’s female volleyball team announced that it lost a game of August 15 in a statement. Multiple parents of Riverside Poly Players, and a member of the School Board, told Pak Gazette Digital that the loss was in response to the Trans athlete in Juraupa Valley, Ab Hernández.
Hernández’s mother, Nereyda Hernández, addressed the recent controversy in an exclusive statement to Pak Gazette Digital on Sunday.
“I understand the discomfort that some may feel, because I was also there. The difference is that I chose to learn, grow and open my heart,” he said.
“Believe me, I know that some people do not understand what it means to be transgender. I am still learning, just next to my son. That is why I choose not to respond with anger or lack of respect. Instead, I choose empathy, because learning takes time and compassion makes all the difference.”
The statement continued: “My baby is small, what distinguishes it is not its size or strength, but its ability and the way the game plays … This is a girl, and I can assure you that you see your daughters as colleagues, as teammates, as friends, not through a lens of anything inappropriate. I know it can be difficult to understand, but she is only another girl who wants to play.
“Finally, I leave you with this: my son is so innocent that he did not even realize that the lost games were due to her.”
