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A couple of girls’ free -sports athletes did not stand on the medal podium next to a transgender athlete for high -mood at the Oregon State Championship on Saturday night.
Recordings obtained by Pakinomist Digital showed the two senior school seniors, Reese Eckard from Sherwood High School and Alexa Anderson from Tigard High School, step down from their respective places on the podium next to a Trans athlete representing Ida B. Wells High School.
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Eckard, in fourth place and Anderson, in the third, each ended in front of the Trans athlete, which tied to fifth place. But the two females were facing the opposite direction as the other competitors received their medals from officials.
The footage then showed an official confrontation of the two young women and gestures for them to move away. Eckard and Anderson were then seen walking away from the podium and getting off to the side.
Pakinomist Digital has reached the Oregon School Activity Association for a response.
The Trans athlete earlier in the boys’ category in 2023 and 2024, Pakinomist reported Digital earlier.
Eckard and Anderson were praised for not standing on the podium on social media and were even shouted by the prominent conservative activist Riley Gaines.
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“We did not refuse to stand on the podium of hatred. We did it because someone has to say that this is not right. To protect the integrity and justice of girls sports, we must stand up for what is right,” Anderson said in a statement to Pakinomist Digital.
Girls and women who make symbolic movements to protest trans -cluttering in sports have become a growing trend in 2025.
On May 17, at a California course and field section final, Reese Hogan from Crean Lutheran High School from second place in the first place medal podium after her transparters, AB Hernandez stepped down from it. Hogan’s stunt was hailed on social media by Gaines and others.
On April 2, the footage of Women’s Fence Stephanie Turner kneeled to protest against a trans opponent at a competition in Maryland and was then punished for it, viral and ignited global attention and control of US fence.
Oregon is one of many democratic-controlled states that so transient athletes compete in girls’ track and field championships this weekend, with other highly published events that took place in California, Washington, Maine and Minnesota.
The America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a non -partisan research institute, filed a title IX -discrimination complaints 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 the high school sports leagues in California, Minnesota, Maine and Massachusetts.
Oregon Girls’ Track and Field Athletes Reese Eckard and Alexa Anderson do not stand on a medal podium next to a trans opponent. (With the permission of the America First Policy Institute)
“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.”
President Donald Trump signed “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive orders on February 5, and his administration has combined the continued enabling of trans athletes in girls’ sports by democratic states a priority.
The US Department of Justice has already launched a lawsuit against Maine for his despite Trump’s executive order, and the president on Tuesday suggested that federal funding breaks could come against California in the middle of the situation involving Hernandez.
