The water polo team had to practice in the ocean because their high school didn't have a pool.
Badis said she was humiliated when she learned that female athletes on other teams ran to a nearby Burger King to use the bathroom or changed clothes on the bus. The boys had their own locker room, so they didn't have to worry about it.
It made me feel like I was not alone in this, but it was so wrong that we were all being treated like that.
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The biggest public high school in Hawaii is the subject of a Title IX case that alleges widespread and systemic sex discrimination against female athletes.
Title IX, the 1972 federal law that prohibited sex-based discrimination in educational settings, has been the focus of a lot of attention. Parents want administrators to give equal opportunities. When school officials are accused of not doing their job, districts often settle without a trial.
The Hawaii case is pushing forward and goes beyond questions of systematic problems of participation and equal treatment, it also accuses Campbell officials of retaliating against the girls for raising concerns, and warning faculty members to speak.
Badis said that when school officials threatened to cancel the girls water polo season, then claimed that half of the program's paperwork was missing, it was frightening.
In the wake of a federal judge's ruling in July that the case can proceed as a class action, the outcome of the trial could affect generations of girls in Hawaii.
Several people are speaking out for the first time in an interview with the New York Times. The location of the dispute and the timing of the class certification make the case particularly poignant. There was a death of a person in 2002.
Ellen J.Staurowsky is a professor of sports media at Ithaca College and the principal investigator for a recent Title IX report. The case is important. It could be a wake-up call for schools that ignore the law and don't pay attention to it.
"If we can't get it right in a state that she represented, then we have some serious thinking to do."
The Hawaii Department of Education is one of the defendants. The athletic association is included in the lawsuit because they do not receive federal funding. The association may be subject to the anti- discrimination provisions of Title IX, according to the judge.
The athletic association and the education department wouldn't comment on the litigation.
Gary H Yamashiroya, a special assistant to the state attorney general, which is representing the defendants, wrote in an email that they are unable to provide comments because of strict legal ethics rules.
The girls who sued aren't entitled to retroactive fixes because the school officials have done the best they can.
In Ewa Beach, sports are more important than anything else. The Little League World Series team that won in 2005 is one of the local heroes.
More than three-fourths of Campbell's students are Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders. The Honolulu Civil Beat reported in February of last year that female athletes at Campbell have not had a locker room since 1962.
Some girls drank less water because they didn't want to go to the nearest bathroom at a fast-food restaurant or a gas station because of the lack of portable toilets.
The girls would relieve themselves in the bushes.
The daily indignities of being a female Campbell Saber was outlined by a former soccer and water polo player in a recent video conference.
She carted a duffel bag full of soccer balls, cleats, shin guards and more. Her backpack and her lunch pail were not included.
Girls' soccer players can't practice until the football and boys' soccer teams finish their workouts.
Pothier was a freshman at the University of California, Irvine. The lights could either be turned off or turned on.
The girls rarely left Oahu while the football team played in places like Phoenix and Las Vegas.
The team wasn't allowed to stay overnight when they qualified for the state tournament. They didn't have a lot of time to fly there, play and return.
Pothier said that they wouldn't have time to eat if they rushed after the games. You have to go to your gate. You can eat when you return.
Badis' family was associated with Campbell athletics as well. Not by will.
When Badis joined the water polo team in the spring of her freshman year, she was surprised to learn that the school had not hired a coach despite requests from female students.
Even though he had no idea about the sport, Dominic Badis Jr. stepped in. When he asked for help on Facebook, he recruited a friend of his from the fire department.
Background checks were not done by the school.
Her mother said it was scary.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii demanded that the Department of Education come up with a plan to address gender disparity after Civil Beat published a story about the issue.
The American Civil Liberties of Hawaii, working with Legal Aid at Work, a nonprofit in San Francisco, and a pro bono team at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, filed a lawsuit in December of last year.
A senior staff attorney with Legal Aid at Work and director of its Fair Play for Girls in Sports project said that the state of Hawaii was dedicating a statue to a woman who was killed in the line of duty.
A trial date for the case was set after a lengthy legal battle.
Badis and her sister are not seeking any damages. They are pushing for change.
Badis is a senior at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I didn't want them to see what I went through.
A new baseball and softball field with artificial turf is next to a small building and there is a separate locker room for softball players. Female athletes can use a boys locker room as well.
Legislators allocated an additional $6 million to the Department of Education for Campbell athletic facilities, including a girls locker room, as part of a larger Title IX effort statewide.
His job is to catch up.
He supported the litigation as well.
He supports anyone fighting for justice. There is a patriarchal system that favors boys over girls.
The daughter of a man is following the case.
According to an academic with a background in politics and women's studies, secondary students face a lot of pressure from their peers and community. The Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act requires colleges to publish data on gender equity on their athletic programs, but there is no similar federal law at the K-12 level.
We have made a lot of progress in opening the door and redistributing the gender balance. In terms of institutions taking on the work of creating equal conditions for nurturing your ambitions, that is where we have fallen down.
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