After her school continued to drop the ball, Ashley, with the support of her parents, became lead plaintiff in the civil action lawsuit, A.B. v. Hawaii DOE, suing her school over its violation of Title IX.

Ashley Badis was a junior at James Campbell — Honolulu’s largest public high school — when she experienced the inequalities between the treatment of the boys and girls sports teams, where the girls didn't have locker rooms and some teams had to walk to the nearest Burger King for a restroom break.

Crushing waves, changing temperatures, whipping wind. This isn’t beach playtime. This is where a Hawaiian high school’s girls' water polo team had to practice after its school failed to ensure them access to a pool — something the boys' teams never had to endure when going to practice.

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Cross, who lost her own mother during the reporting of the feature, shares how Caron Badis – mother of Ashley Badis, the high schooler who fought for equal access of her girls water polo team at her Honolulu school — instilled the importance of fighting for what’s right and what’s fair.

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While the boys' swimming team had pool access, the girls' water polo team was left running drills in the Pacific Ocean. After going to their school administration without any results, junior Ashley Badis decided to take a stand, becoming the lead plaintiff suing her school over Title IX violations.

For the women on the Campbell High water polo team, the sensation that they’d been defeated before they even got a chance to play was strong heading into their season where they weren’t afforded the “luxury” of practicing in a pool. With no pool for tryouts and practice, they went to the ocean.

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It's a reality that Ashley Badis and her teammates faced at the conclusion of civil action lawsuit A.B. v. Hawaii DOE, which settled seven years after Ashley was a high school junior fighting for practice facilities and fair treatment for her water polo team.

When fighting to get equal treatment under Title IX, there’s never really a final victory. The relief usually comes years later, long after the people who have initially fought for it.

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While the boys' sports teams were equipped for their seasons to start, Badis and her water polo team weren’t given pool access, requiring them to practice in the Pacific Ocean for the first two weeks of the season. Badis ultimately had to sue her school for equal treatment under Title IX.

Standing up for yourself isn’t easy to do in many situations. Being a young woman standing up for yourself against administration can be even harder while fearing retaliation. But that’s just what high schooler Ashley Badis did when facing unfair treatment at the beginning of her water polo season.

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What does it take to report a story that spans generations? In TITLE WAVES, journalist Kim Cross traces the legacy of Title IX from Congresswoman Patsy Mink to a high school girls' water polo team, whose fight for equal treatment reshaped opportunities for future athletes.

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While Republicans continue to weaponize the law, using it against people and institutions they're seeking to curb, as seen in Long Lead's feature TITLE WAVES, the law was meant to even the playing field for genders, giving them equal opportunities. 📷: Jenny Sathngam

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Badis ultimately sued her school because of its unequal treatment of the boys' teams versus girls' teams, reaching a settlement that will hopefully ensure women at the high school can just focus on their studies and sports – not enforcement of a law that should've always been in place.

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TITLE WAVES shows how educational equity complaints like Badis’s have been sent to the back of a queue that's getting longer and moving slower as the White House continues to use Title IX to support its agenda. 📷: Vincent Ricafort

Long Lead's feature TITLE WAVES chronicles the history of Title IX and shows how a high school water polo player named Ashley Badis recently prevailed in her Title IX lawsuit against the Hawaii Department of Education seeking to get her team equal treatment to the boys' teams. 📷: Jenny Sathngam