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The last year student of Oregon High School, Alexa Anderson, attracted national attention on Saturday when she refused to share the high jump medal podium with a trans athlete at a state athletics championship meeting.
The viral images of Anderson and his companion Athlete Reese Eckard renouncing the podium also showed an official gesture to put themselves aside.
Anderson alleges that the official ordered her and Eckard to leave the photo of the photos if they did not stop on the podium.
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“We left the podium in protest and, as you can see, the official guy told us’ Hey, go there, if you are not going to participate, leave the photos'”, Anderson meant during an interview in “The Ingraham Angle” by Pak Gazette’.
“They asked us to get away from the medal post, so when they took the photos, we were not even at all.”
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The incident occurs weeks after sports officers of High School in California supposedly ordered athletes to take off “Protect Girls Sports” t -shirts at a postseason meeting with a Trans athlete.
Anderson added that on Saturday was his first time competing against a transgender athlete, but he has opposed trans inclusion in girls’ sports before that and expressed his belief through the comments of social networks.
“This is the first public position that I have taken on this issue, but I have supported all the girls who have made with positive messages, commenting on publications, just supporting them and letting them know that I am behind them somehow,” said Anderson.
Anderson, from Tigard High School, ended third in the high jump and Eckard, by Sherwood High School, arrived in fourth place, while the trans athlete, first leg B. Wells High School, took the fifth.
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Athletics athletes from Oregon girls, Reese Eckard and Alexa Anderson, did not stop on a medal podium next to a trans opponent. (Courtesy of America First Policy Institute)
“It is unfair because biological males and biological women compete at such different levels that letting a biological man enter our competition is taking the space and opportunities of all these working women, the ninth girl who should have arrived in eighth and if that podium stain took away, as well as many others,” Anderson said.
The situation of Anderson and Eckard was only one of the many cases of girls who had to share the competition and medal podiums with biological men in the state gather last weekend.
In California, a nationally publicized incident that involves Trans athlete Hernández de Jurupa Valley High School culminated with Hernández winning two state titles. President Donald Trump warned the State that it does not allow Trans athletes to compete at the meeting of the State Title of Girls, and the Department of Justice has now given California a deadline of June 9 to review their policy or federal financing cuts can occur.
In Washington, a trans athlete in East Valley High School won the state title of 400 meters and 400 meters of the girls on Saturday. In response, multiple girls from Tumwater High School, which was in the center of a controversy that involved a female basketball player who was rebuked for refusing to face a trans opponent in the winter, protested Monday during the school schedule with a large banner signal that said: “This is not a walk (sic). We are not going anywhere.”
Other post -season athletics meetings that saw Trans athletes compete this weekend in Maine and Minnesota.
America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a non -partisan research institute, presented a title IX Discrimination complaint Against Oregon for their laws that allow biological men to compete in girls’ sports on May 27.
The complaint was presented to the Office of Civil Rights of the US Department of Education, which already launched investigations of the Title IX against Secondary Sports Leagues in California, Minnesota, Maine and Massachusetts.
Athletics athlete of Oregon’s girls, Alexa Anderson. (Pak Gazette)
“Each girl deserves a fair shooting: in the countryside, on the podium and in life,” said Jessica Hart Steinmann, the AFPI Executive General Advisor and vice president of the Litigation Center, in a statement.
“When state institutions knowingly force young women to compete against biological men, they are violating federal law and sending a devastating message to female athletes throughout the country.”
