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Oregon High School Senior Alexa Anderson received national attention on Saturday when she refused to share the high -mood medal podium with a trans -athlete at a state and field championship meeting.
Viral recordings of Anderson and the co -girlfriend Reese Eckard, who pulled down from the podium, also showed an official gesture for them to step to the side.
Anderson claims that the official ordered her and Eckard to get out of the shot of photos if they would not stand on the podium.
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“We stepped out of the podium in protest, and as you can see, the official kind told us’ Hello, go over there, if you don’t want to join, get out of the pictures, ‘” Anderson claimed during an interview on Pakinomist’ “The Ingraham Angle” Monday night.
“They asked us to move away from the medal rack, so when they took the pictures, we were not in it at all.”
Pakinomist Digital has reached the Oregon School Activity Association for Comment.
The incident comes weeks after the California colleges allegedly ordered athletes to start “Protect Girls Sports” T-shirts at an autumn season meeting with a trans athlete.
Anderson added that Saturday was her first time that ever competed against a transgender athlete, but she has opposed trans -cluttering in girls’ sports before it and expressed her faith through comments on social media.
“This is the first public condition that I have taken in this number, but I have privately supported all the girls who have done with positive messages, commented on posts, just support them and let them know that I am behind them in any way,” Anderson said.
Anderson, from Tigard High School, finished in third place in the High Hall, and Eckard from Sherwood High School came in fourth place while the Trans athlete from Ida B. Wells High School took the fifth.
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Oregon Girls’ Track and Field Athletes Reese Eckard and Alexa Anderson did not stand on a medal podium next to a trans opponent. (With the permission of the America First Policy Institute)
“It is unfair because biological men and biological females compete at such different levels that letting a biological man into our competition take up space and opportunities from all these hardworking women, the girl in the ninth, who should have come in eighth and had the podium taken away from her as well as many others,” Anderson said.
Anderson and Eckard’s situation was only one of many cases that girls had to share competition and medal podiums with biological men at the state meet this last weekend.
In California, a national-published incident that involved Trans-Athlet AB Hernandez from the Jurupa Valley High School culminated in that Hernandez won two state titles. President Donald Trump warned the state not to let trans -athletes compete in the girls’ state title meet, and the Department of Justice has now given California a deadline for June 9 to revise its policy or federal financing cuts may occur.
In Washington, a trans athlete won at the East Valley High School The Girls’ 400-meter 2A state title on Saturday. In response, several girls protested at Tumwater High School, who was at the center of a controversy involving a girls’ basketball player who was rebuked to refuse to meet a trans opponent in the winter, Monday in school with a large banner sign reading, “This is not a walk (sic).
Other girls’ seasonal course and field meet, who saw trans athletes competing this weekend, took place in Maine and Minnesota.
America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a non -partic research institute, filed a title IX Discrimination complaint Against Oregon for his laws, giving biological men the opportunity to compete in girls’ sports on May 27.
The complaint was filed with the US Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, which has already launched title IX studies against high school sports leagues in California, Minnesota, Maine and Massachusetts.
Oregon Girls’ Track Athlete Alexa Anderson. (Pakinomist)
“Every girl deserves a fair shot – on the pitch, on the podium and in life,” Jessica Hart Steinmann, Aphpi’s executive Attorney General and Vice President of the Center for Litigation, said in a statement.
“When state institutions deliberately force young women to compete against biological men, violate the federal law and send a devastating message to female athletes across the country.”
