NEWNow you can listen to Pak Gazette articles!
The last year student of Oregon High School, Alexa Anderson, is now a conservative treasury heroine, but comes from a family of Democrats.
When Tigard High School’s athletics star refused to stand on the same podium as a trans athlete in the state championship on Saturday, along with his partner medalist Reese Eckard, Anderson immediately learned the treatment as the act like the one he caused from the political side with which his family traditionally aligned.
“When they reese and I resigned there, there was definitely some confusion, there was definitely some of anger and only many people who did not understand why they were doing this, and scary. They were all looking at us,” Anderson told Pak Gazette Digital. “There were many people inside and out of the country. I heard shouts of them telling us that we leave the road.”
The reaction did not end in the field.
CLICK HERE for more sports coverage at Foxnews.com
“There have also been a handful of people who really do not understand that they are approaching and call me bad person,” he added.
“When I received one of the first comments from hate, I just triggered it, I replied:” Thank you for sharing your opinion, respect your opinion, this is mine and this is what I defended, “but it really did not bother me too much because I was prepared for it, I knew that this was going to happen, and I have so many people behind me, supporting me and that number very very affected by the people who have been hateful towards me.”
Anderson was warned by friends, coaches and relatives about what would happen if she took the position she took. However, he felt that he had to do something as soon as he would discover that he would compete against the Trans athlete last week. The teenager considered to retire completely from the competition, but could not waste all her hard work to reach that point. Then she already came up with the idea of the podium.
Athletics athlete of Oregon’s girls, Alexa Anderson, in action. (Courtesy of Alexa Anderson)
Anderson had never competed against a trans athlete in the competition before that point, but she felt forced to demonstrate her opposition for the good of the other girls throughout the country, especially in their state, which have been affected by trans inclusion.
One of those girls is the Junior of Glencoe High School, Lily Hammond.
As a second year student in the winter of 2023-24, Hammond said that without knowing it he competed and shared a costume with a biological male opponent in another team. She said she competed against the athlete several times, assuming that the athlete was a biological woman.
“It was not until the last encounter that I realized ‘Oh, that is a trans person’, and at that time it was too late,” Hammond told Fox Digital. “The shock that came was distrust and lies, I felt very betrayed, I felt betrayed by adults and coaches of the other team who let it happen without my consent and my knowledge. My team did not know, my coach did not know … I felt very raped knowing that a man could have seen me change.”
Oregon’s girls swimmer Lily Hammond. (Courtesy of Lily Hammond)
Hammond said he already had to deal with transgender students in his high school that regularly enter girls baths, but described the experience with his “traumatic” swimming team.
“At that time I was overwhelming and felt traumatic since they kept me in the dark,” he said.
Hammond is not the only “traumatized” Oregon girl for the problem.
The last year student of Forest Grove High School, Maddie Eischen and the Junior of Newberg High School, Sophia Carpenter, faced the possibility of competing against a trans athlete in a state competition called Chehalem Classic on April 18.
Then both refused to compete.
Monitoring of sports controversies of the high school of the high school of Trans athletes shaking the nation during the last year
Oregon Girls Maddie Eischen Athletics Athlete. (Courtesy of Maddie Eischen)
“I discovered the day before, which led me to feel the need to scratch the meeting. All day I had anxiety,” Eischen told Pak Gazette Digital. “My experience in the Chehalem track encounter and scratching the meeting was traumatic, something I never imagined having to do.”
Carpenter said he found himself so overwhelmed by the emotion by the experience, that he cried on the trip home after the encounter.
“It was emotionally traumatic trying to know what to do and how I should respond to compete with [the trans athlete]”Carpenter said.
The experience pushed Carpenter to make a visible point when he competed in the state championship this weekend. He appeared at his height jump competition wearing a shirt of the sportswear activist XX-XY Athletics.
Now, beyond just talking against the current laws of the State that allow men in their sports, Anderson, Hammond and Carpenter suggested that the problem will reproduce a lot in how they vote in future political elections.
“Only this last election, observing the different beliefs between the two candidates, had a candidate who openly believes that biological men should afford in women’s bathrooms and sports, and was not doing anything, and then had another candidate who said” this will be one of the first things I changed, “and that is what Donald Trump did,” Hammond said.
“In the future, that’s something I’m going to look for.”
Carpenter added: “I have always believed in the constitution -based vote … and although Title IX was not one of the first things that was mentioned when our country was created, it goes back to the first amendment and basic human rights, and women also deserve these rights, and at this time the men who feel in a certain way are given.”
The Athletics Athlete of Oregon’s girls, Sophia Carpenter. (Courtesy of Sophia Carpenter)
In addition, while the trans athletes that each of the girls faced played in their trauma, their position against the liberal laws of the State on the subject is not addressed to those people. It is aimed at legislators and education officials that have allowed men to reach that point.
“I feel they have only been deceived,” said Hammond. “The faculty of my school is feeding this, the faculty of other schools is feeding this saying ‘is fine if you want to be another person'”.
In recent days, Oregon has become one of the heated battlefields of the Nation in the issues, since the State represents a symbolic meaning in the sport of athletics. Eugene, Oregon, nicknamed “Tracktown USA”, often houses the World Athletics Championship, American Olympic Tests and the NCAA championships.
Now, Anderson’s trick in the State Secondary School Championship has put the State under a national microscope and a legal firm has already taken measures to bring federal measures against the State.
Although the Trump administration has focused much of its attention on the issues in Maine and California, the launch of federal investigations and even a lawsuit from the Department of Justice against Maine, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) presented a civil rights complaint that requested a federal intervention.
“Our research on Title IX and the violations of the first amendment in Oregon is to defend marginalized, silenced and stripped girls and women of equity and freedom that are guaranteed by federal law,” said AFPI legal strategy lawyer, Leigh Ann O’Neill, Pak Gazette Digital.
“When you are told young women who compete against male athletes or remain silent, or worse, they are punished for telling the truth, we have to act. Because no one is above the Constitution, not even state sports officials.”
