A California high school volleyball player who refused to share a lockeroom with a transgender teammate said she has received death threats for her stance – as the Trump administration probes the school district’s sports policies.

Hadeel Hazameh had said her Muslim faith led to her refusing to change clothes in the Jurupa Valley High School, but the backlash was so traumatizing that she quit volleyball and track-and-field then sped up her studies so she could graduate early in December.

“I was looking very forward to track… I really miss volleyball,” Hazameh told Fox News Digital. “After I went public with not supporting biological men in women’s sports, of course, everyone doesn’t like me anymore.”

Her school district is now under investigation by the Trump Department of Education for a possible violation of Title IX, the federal anti-discrimination law. The probe was sparked as transgender athlete AB Hernandez last year claimed state gold in both the high jump and triple jump events, thrusting the school into the national spotlight.

Hazameh quit volleyball in protest last September, a week before she joined a lawsuit against the school district, led by the firm Advocates for Faith & Freedom.

Hazameh told Fox she has always believed males shouldn’t be included in women’s sports — but her Muslim faith also prohibits her from being in the same changing spaces as a biological male.

After she stepped away from the volleyball team, she said all her teammates, with the exception of co-plaintiff Alyssa McPherson, shunned her.

“The only friend I have is Alyssa. And it’s OK, honestly,” she said. “I don’t need a lot of friends, I just need the ones that are there for me to support me.”

Hazameh said she even received death threats.

“I’ve been getting very disrespectful comments, I’ll be walking to class and someone will cuss at me, or I’m pretty sure someone almost told me to die. And I reported it to the school and they didn’t do anything about it,” she claimed.

“‘They were like, ‘What do you want me to do for you in this situation?’ And I’m like, ‘Someone just told me to die. Are you serious right now?’” she recalled.

Last year Jurupa Valley High School was called out by President Trump following Hernandez’s success on the track-and-field team.

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The school’s opponents began forfeiting volleyball games this past fall and, along with the president’s comments, fueled a national media frenzy at the school, which has around 1,600 students, according to Fox.

The Trump administration announced it would be expanding its probe into California state policy allowing biological males participating in women’s sports, which federal officials claim violates Title IX and unlawfully discriminated against female athletes.

Trump signed an executive order in February 2025 directing federal agencies to interpret Title IX as barring transgender girls and women from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams, and authorizing the withholding of federal funding from schools and athletic programs that do not comply.

Nationwide, the Education Department’s investigations now span 18 school districts and colleges, according to federal officials.