Women’s athletics athletes are not on a podium next to the Trans athlete in the Oregon State Championship
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A pair of female athlete athletes did not stop on the medal podium along with a transgender athlete for a height jump in the Oregon State Championship on Saturday night.
The images obtained by News Digital showed the two last year high school students, Reese Eckard by Sherwood High School and Alexa Anderson by Tigard High School, getting off their respective places on the podium next to a trans athlete that represented Ida B. Wells High School.
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Eckard, fourth, and Anderson, thirdly, each ended in front of the Trans athlete, which tied in fifth place. But the two women faced the opposite direction when the other competitors received their medals from the officials.
Then, the footage showed an official confront to the two young women and a gesture to move. Eckard and Anderson were seen moving away from the podium and stopped aside.
News Digital has communicated with the Oregon School Activities Association to obtain an answer.
The Trans athlete previously competed in the children’s category in 2023 and 2024, News Digital previously reported.
Eckard and Anderson were praised for not standing on the podium on social networks, and were even shown by the outstanding conservative activist Riley Gaines.
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“We do not refuse to be on the podium for hate. We did it because someone has to say that this is not correct. To protect the integrity and justice of girls’ sports, we must defend what is correct,” Anderson said in a statement to News Digital.
Girls and women who make symbolic gestures to protest against trans inclusion in sports have become a growing trend in 2025.
On May 17, in a sectional athletics final in California, Reese Hogan de Crean Lutheran High School came out from second place on the podium of the first place medal after his Trans opponent, Ab Hernández, renounced him. Hogan’s trick was praised in social networks by Gaines and others.
On April 2, the images of the Stephanie Turner female female maiden to protest a trans opponent in a competition in Maryland, and subsequently was punished for it, went viral and turned on consciousness and global scrutiny against US fences.
Oregon is one of the many Democratic controlled states that saw transgender athletes compete in girls athletics championships this weekend, with other highly publicized incidents that take place in California, Washington, Maine and Minnesota.
The America First Policy Institute (NewsI), a non -partisan research institute, filed a complaint of discrimination of title IX against Oregon for its laws that allow biological men to compete in the sports of girls on May 27.
The complaint was presented to the Office of Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education, which already launched research of the Title IX against the sports leagues of High School in California, Minnesota, Maine and Massachusetts.
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Athletics athletes from Oregon girls, Reese Eckard and Alexa Anderson, do not stop on a medal podium next to a trans opponent. (Courtesy of America First Policy Institute)
“Each girl deserves a fair shooting: in the countryside, on the podium and in life,” said Jessica Hart Steinmann, the NewsI 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.”
President Donald Trump signed the executive order to “keep men out of women’s sports” on February 5 and his administration has made the combination of the continuous qualification of trans athletes in girls’ sports for democratic states is a priority.
The United States Department of Justice already launched a lawsuit against Maine for his challenge to Trump’s executive order, and the president suggested on Tuesday that federal financing pauses could come against California in the middle of the situation involving Hernández.
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Jackson Thompson is a News Digital Sports writer. He previously worked for ESPN e Business Insider. Jackson has covered the finals of the Super Bowl and the NBA, and has interviewed the iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.