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Tennis legend Martina Navratilova responded to two Oregon High School athletes who refused to stand with a transgender athlete after the girls’ high -mooded state championships on Saturday.
Reese Eckard from Sherwood High School and Alexa Anderson from Tigard High School stepped down from the podium and refused to divide the place with the transient athlete that finished in fifth place. Anderson ended in the third and Eckard on the fourth.
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Oregon Girls’ Track and Field Athletes Reese Eckard and Alexa Anderson refuse to stand on a medal podium next to a trans opponent. (With the permission of the America First Policy Institute)
Recordings obtained by Pakinomist Digital showed an official confrontational Eckard and Anderson.
“Women and girls are punished no matter what they do in this misogynistic world …” Navratilova wrote on X.
She added that “Feminists never asked for this. At least not the vast majority of us … never.”
Navratilova has been an important voice in the effort to protect women’s sports. She has been particularly critical of Democrats who have failed to step up to the record, with their Republican colleagues, to help adopt legislation to ban men from competing in girls and women’s sports.
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Tennis legend Martina Navratilova during trophy presentations, which she presented with Chris Evert after the women’s single final at Court Philippe-Chatrier at the 2024 French Open Tennis Tournament at Roland Garros on June 8, 2024 in Paris. (Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images)
At the beginning of the year, Navratilova criticized democratic lawmakers who killed the protection of women and girls in the Sports Act. The tennis legend urged Democrats to “grow a spine” in a post on social media.
President Donald Trump signed “No Men Men In Women’s Sports” executive order in February, and Navratilova complained that Democrats did not do what the president did.
“I hate that the Democrats totally failed women and girls on this very clear question of only women’s sports for women,” she wrote in a post on X.
She then asked a question to the Democrats as some states draw their nose at Trump’s executive order.
Martina Navratilova during a joint press conference with Chris Evert from USA, on day 5 of GNP Seguros WTA Finals Cancun 2023, part of the Hologic WTA Tour, November 2, 2023 in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. (Artur Widak/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
“What are Dems willing to give up for men who identify themselves as trans?” She asked about X. “Abortion … The Constitution … The rule of law … It’s just to begin with …”
