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Oregon is facing his second trial in a month on the issue of biologically male trans athletes competing in girls’ high school sports.
Two of the State Girls’ Path and Field Stars, Alexa Anderson and Reese Eckard, brought a lawsuit against the Oregon School Athletics Association (OSAA) after an incident on May 31, when they refused to stand on a medal podium with a transgender competitor at a state title meeting.
Recordings of the stunt became viral when Anderson later told Pakinomist that officials instructed them to go away from the podium and get out of the photo pictures.
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Their trial claims that Osaa not only excluded them from official photos but also detained their medals. In the case, the girls’ first change rights were violated by the officials.
“I recently competed against a biological man on my state freedom of freedom, another girl and I decided to leave the podium in protest to the unreasonable competitive environment,” Anderson told Pakinomist Digital. “I struggle to keep Women’s Sports XX and prevent biological men in women’s sports being normalized. By doing this, I hope that all future generations of female athletes will have a safe and fair opportunity to excel in their sports.”
Pakinomist Digital reached out to OSAA for a response.
The girls are represented by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI).
“These young women got their place on the podium – and the right to express themselves,” said Jessica Hart Steinmann, performing general lawyer at AFPI. “Instead of respecting their view that girls’ sports should be for girls onlyOregon -Officers sidelined them. The first change protects the right to dissent – the school officials do not get the reprimand of students who refuse to agree with their faith. “
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AFPI also represents fellow Oregon Girls’ Track and Field Athletes Maddie Eischen and Sophia Carpenter In a separate lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Education for his policies that allow biological men to compete in girls’ sports.
Carpenter and Eischen quoted their experience of withdrawing from a meeting containing a Trans -competitor on April 18.
“Before [Carpenter] The psychological and emotional weight of that moment became overwhelming – she felt helpless, demoralized and betrayed by the institutions and adults accused of protecting her equal opportunities for fair play. In the end, she realized that she was unable to participate in the height of that day and withdrew from the event, “that trial claims.
Both Carpenter and Eischen previously told Pakinomist Digital that the experience was “traumatic.”
“My experience at the Chehalem track meets and scraping myself from the meeting was traumatic, something I had never imagined I would ever do,” Eischen said.
Carpenter added, “It was emotionally traumatic to try to know what to do and how to answer to compete with [the trans athlete]”
Carpenter said she found herself so overwhelmed with feelings from the experience that she cried on the trip home after the meeting. Despite being confronted with “fear” of potential retaliation for filing a lawsuit, the two girls are officially in it and charges ahead with a legal battle that can get plenty of national attention.
