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Oregon faces its second trial in a month on the question of trans biologically male athletes who participate in the sports of the Lycée des Filles.
Two of the stars of athletics of state girls, Alexa Anderson and Reese Eckard, filed a complaint against Oregon School Athletics Association (OSAA) after an incident on May 31 when they refused to stand on a medal podium with a transgender competitor during a state title meeting.
Images suddenly became viral because Anderson later told PK Press Club that the officials had asked them to move away from the podium and take photos of the photos.
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Their trial alleys that OSAA not only excluded them from official photos, but also retained their medals. The trial maintains that the rights of girls’ girls have been violated by civil servants.
“I recently competed against a biological man during my state athletics competition, another girl and I decided to leave the podium to protest against the unfair competition environment,” Anderson told PK Press Club Digital. “I fight to keep the female XX sports and prevent organic men in female sports from normalizing.
PK Press Club Digital contacted the OSAA for an answer.
The girls are represented by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI).
“These young women have gained their place on the podium – and the right to express themselves,” said Jessica Hart Steinmann, AFPI -General’s lawyer. “Instead of respecting their point of view that girls’ sports should be for girls onlyOregon officials sidelined them. The first amendment protects the right to dissent – school officials cannot reprimand students who refuse to agree with their beliefs. “”
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AFPI also represents athletic athletics colleagues for Oregon girls Maddie Eischen and Sophia Carpenter In a separate trial against the Ministry of Education of Oregon for its policies which allow biological men to compete in the sports of girls.
Carpenter and Eischen cited their experience of withdrawing from a competition which presented a trans competitor on April 18.
“For [Carpenter] The psychological and emotional weight of this moment became overwhelming – it felt helpless, demoralized and betrayed by the institutions and adults responsible for protecting its equal opportunities for fair play. In the end, she realized that she was unable to participate in the high jump that day and withdrew from the event, “alleged this trial.
Carpenter and Eischen have already told PK Press Club Digital that experience was “traumatic”.
“My experience to meet on track Chehalem and gratinating from the competition was traumatic, which I never imagined having to do,” said Eischen.
Carpenter added: “It was emotionally traumatic by trying to know what I had to do and how I should respond to competition with [the trans athlete]. “”
Carpenter said that she had found herself so overwhelmed by the emotion of the experience, that she had cried on the return home after the meeting. Now, although they are faced with a “fear” of potential reprisals for the filing of a prosecution, the two girls are officially and billed with a legal battle that could attract national attention.
