Oregon High School Senior Alexa Anderson is now a budding conservative heroine, but she comes from a family of Democrats.

When the Tigard High School Track and Field star refused to stand on the same podium as a trans -athlete at the state championship on Saturday, along with colleague medals Reese Eckard, Anderson learned the same treatment as an act as the one asked from the political side that her family was traditionally in line with.

“When I and Reese stepped down, there was definitely some confusion that was definitely a certain anger and just many people who didn’t understand, why did this and it was scary. Everyone looked at us,” Anderson told Pakinomist Digital. “There were a lot of people on and off the field. I heard shouting about them telling us to get out of the way.”

The setback did not end on the field.

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“There have also been a handful of people who just really don’t understand who reach out and call me a bad person,” she added.

“When I received one of the first hate comments that I just brushed it off, I replied by saying ‘Thank you for sharing your opinion, I respect your opinion, this is mine, and that’s what I stood for’, but it didn’t really bother me too much because I was prepared for what I knew this would happen and I have so many people behind me, and supported me and that number, the number of people, Haded toward me. ”

Anderson was warned by friends, coaches and family about what would happen if she took the position she took. However, she felt that she had to do something as soon as she found out she would compete against the trans athlete last week. The teenager was considering withdrawing from the competition, but couldn’t bring himself to waste all his hard work to get to that point. So she and Eckard came with the podium idea.

Anderson had never even competed against a trans athlete even in competition ahead of this point, but she felt compelled to demonstrate her resistance for the sake of the other girls across the country, especially in her state that has been affected by trans cluttering.

One of these girls is Glencoe High School Junior Lily Hammond.

Like another in the winter of 2023-24, Hammond said she unconsciously competed courage and shared a dressing room with a biological male opponent on another team. She said she competed against the athlete several times, provided the athlete was a biological woman.

“It was only in the last meeting that I realized ‘oh, it’s a transperson’ and at that time it was too late,” Hammond told Pakinomist Digital. “The shock that came was mistrust and lies, I felt very betrayed, I felt betrayed by the adults and the coaches on the other team that let it happen without my consent and my knowledge. My team did not know, my coach did not know … I felt very violated by knowing that a man could have seen me change.”

Oregon girls swim lily hammond. (Courtesy of Lily Hammond)

Hammond said she already had to deal with transient students at her high school who came into girls’ toilets regularly, but she called the experience with her swim team “traumatic.”

“At the time it was overwhelming and felt traumatic when I was kept in the dark,” she said.

Hammond is also not the only Oregon girl “traumatized” by the problem.

Forest Grove High School Senior Maddie Eischen and Newberg High School Junior Sophia Carpenter faced the prospect of competing against a trans athlete in a state competition called Chehalem Classic back on April 18.

So both refused to compete.

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Oregon Girls’ Track and Field Athlete Maddie Eischen. (With the permission of Maddie Eischen)

“I found out the day before, which led to I felt the need to scratch myself from the meeting. All day I had anxiety,” Eischen told Pakinomist Digital. “My experience at the Chehalem Railway Meeting and scraping myself from the meeting was traumatic, something I never imagined I should ever do.”

Carpenter said she found herself so overwhelmed with feelings from the experience that she cried on the trip home after the meeting.

“It was emotionally traumatic to try to know what to do and how to answer to compete with [the trans athlete]”Said Carpenter.

The experience pressed Carpenter to make a visible point as she competed at the state championship this weekend. She showed up for her high jump competition, which had a t-shirt from the activist sports clothing brand XX-XY Athletics.

Now, in addition to just speaking against the state’s current laws, enabling men in their sports, Anderson, Hammond and Carpenter suggested that the question will play strongly in how they vote in future political elections.

“Just this last election, looking at the different beliefs between the two candidates, you had a candidate who openly thinks that biological men should be allowed in women’s toilets and women’s sports, and did nothing, and then you had another candidate who said ‘this will be one of the first things I change,’ and that’s what Donald Trump did,” Hammond said.

“In the future this is something I want to look for.”

Carpenter added, “I have always believed to vote based on the Constitution … and while section IX was not one of the first things that were brought up when our country was created, it goes back to the first change and basic human rights, and women also deserve these rights, and right now they are given to men who feel a certain way.”

Oregon Girls’ Track and Field Athlete Sophia Carpenter. (Courtesy of Sophia Carpenter)

Although the trans athletes that each of the girls faced played into their trauma, their booth against the state’s liberal laws on the issue is not directed at these individuals. It is aimed at the legislators and educational officials who have enabled men to get to that point.

“I feel they have just been misled,” Hammond said. “The faculty of my school is feeding this, the faculty of other schools is feeding this and saying ‘It’s okay if you want to be another person.'”

In the past few days, Oregon has become one of the country’s heated battlefields on the questions as the state represents symbolic significance in the sports sports. Eugene, Oregon, called “Tractown USA”, often hosts the World Athletics Championships, American Olympic trials and NCAA championships.

Now Anderson’s stunt at the High School State Championship has put the state under a national microscope, and a legal company has already taken steps to take federal action against the state.

While the Trump administration has focused much of its attention to the questions in Maine and California, the launch of federal investigations and even a lawsuit against Maine filed the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) a complaint against civil rights calling for federal intervention.

“Our study of violation of title IX and first amendments to Oregon is about standing up for girls and women sidelines, taved and deprived of the righteousness and freedom they are guaranteed under federal law,” AFPI Senior Legal Strategy Lawy Lawy Leigh Ann O’Neill said to Pakinomist Digital.

“When young women are told to compete against male athletes or remain quiet – or worse, punish for speaking the truth – we have to act. Because no one is over the constitution – not even state sports officials.”