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The pair of young girls’ track and field athletes were not on the medal podium along with the transgender athletes. Oregon Saturday night championship.
Two footage obtained by Fox News Digital showed high school Seniors of Sherwood High School Reese Edcard and Tiguard High School Alexa Anderson have stepped down from each spot on the podium next to the trans athletes representing Ida B. Wells High School.
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Ecard came in fourth and Anderson was third ahead of the Transathlete, each in fifth place. However, the two women faced in opposite directions as other contestants received medals from officials.
The footage then made the official stand up to the two young women, making the gestures appear to separate. Ecard and Anderson saw them standing sideways away from the podium.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Oregon School Activities Association for a response.
Transathlete previously competed in the Boys category in 2023 and 2024, Fox News Digital Previously reported.
Eckard and Anderson were praised for not standing on the social media podium and were even screamed by renowned conservative activist Riley Gaines.
“We didn’t refuse to stand on the podium out of hatred. We did that because someone had to say this is not right. To protect the integrity and fairness of girls’ sports, we must stand up to the right,” Anderson said in a statement in Fox News Digital.
Girls and women who make iconic gestures to protest transport to sports have become a growing trend in 2025.
On May 17th, at the California Athletics Section Finals, Reese Hogan Crean Lutheran High School stepped onto the podium with second-to-first-place medals. Abu Hernandez resigned from there. Hogan’s stunts have been praised on social media by Gaines and others.
April 2nd, footage of a female swordsman Stephanie Turner He protested his trans opponent in the Maryland competition, then was punished, for which he was punished, went viral, igniting global awareness and scrutiny of USA fencing.
Oregon is one of many democratically controlled states where trans athletes compete in the women’s track and field championships this weekend, with highly publicized incidents being held in California, Washington, Maine and Minnesota.
The American First Policy Institute (AFPI), a nonpartisan research institute, has submitted Title IX Discrimination complaints May 27th to Oregon about a law that would allow biological men to compete in women’s sports.
The complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Office. Civil Rights has already launched a Title IX investigation into high school sports leagues in California, Minnesota, Maine and Massachusetts.
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Oregon Girls track and field athletes Lees Eckard and Alexa Anderson will not be on the medal podium next to their trans opponents. (Commentary of America First Policy Institute)
“Every girl deserves a fair shot on the field, on the podium and on the life,” Jessica Hartsteinman, executive general counsel at AFPI and vice-chairman of the litigation center, said in a statement.
“When state agencies intentionally force young women to compete with biological men, they are violating federal law and sending a devastating message to female athletes across the country.”
president Donald Trump On February 5, signed the executive order “Stop Men from Women’s Sports,” and his administration prioritized the continued potential and continued potential of women’s sports trans athletes by democracies.
The U.S. Department of Justice has already launched a lawsuit against Maine over Trump’s executive order, and the president on Tuesday proposed that federal funding could counter California amid the situation in which Hernandez is involved.
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