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Alexa Anderson, elder from Oregon high school, is now a budding conservative heroine, but she 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, alongside her colleague Medallated Reese Eckard, Anderson immediately learned of the treatment that a act like this caused the political part that traditionally aligned.
“When I and Reese resigned, there was certainly a certain confusion, there was certainly anger and just a lot of people who did not understand why did that, and it was scary. Everyone looked at us,” Anderson told PK Press Club Digital. “There were a lot of people on and out of the field. I have heard of telling us to get away from us.”
The backlash did not end in the field.
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“There have also been a handful of people who do not really understand who hold their hand and call me a bad person,” she added.
“When I received one of the first comments from hatred that I just pushed him away, I replied by saying” Thank you for sharing your opinion, I respect your opinion, it’s me and that’s what I defended “but that didn’t really disturb me because I prepared for that, I knew it was going to happen, and I have so many people behind me.”
Anderson was warned by friends, coaches and family of what would happen if she took the position she was taking. However, she said she had to do something as soon as she discovered that she would participate in the Trans athlete last week. The teenager planned to completely withdraw from the competition, but could not get all her hard work wasted to get to this point. She and Eckard therefore had the idea of the podium.
The athletics athlete of Oregon girls, Alexa Anderson, in action. (Thanks to Alexa Anderson)
Anderson had never even concluded an athlete trans in competition before this point, but she felt obliged to demonstrate her opposition for other girls across the country, in particular in his state, which was affected by trans inclusion.
One of these girls is Lily Hammond Junior from Glecoe high school.
In the second year in the winter of 2023-24, Hammond said that she had faced without knowing it and shared a cloakroom with a organic male opponent in another team. She said that she had faced the athlete several times, assuming that the athlete was a biological woman.
“It was only during the last meeting I made” Oh, he’s a trans person “, and at that time it was too late,” Hammond told PK Press Club Digital. “The shock that came was distrust and lying, I felt very betrayed, I felt betrayed by the adults and coaches of the other team who let him perform without my consent and my Swnoue.
The girls of Oregon swim Lily Hammond. (Thanks to Lily Hammond)
Hammond said that she had to face the transgender students of her high school regularly entering the girls’ toilets, but she called the experience with her “traumatic” swimming team.
“At the time, it was overwhelming and felt traumatic since I was kept in darkness,” she said.
Hammond is not the only girl in Oregon “traumatized” by the question.
Maddie Eischen, Senior of Forest Grove High School, and Newberg High School Sophia Carpenter’s junior were faced with the prospect of competing with a Trans athlete in a state competition called Chehalem Classic on April 18.
Thus, the two refused to compete.
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The athletics athlete of Oregon girls Maddie Eischen. (Thanks to Maddie Eischen)
“I discovered the day before, which led me to feel the need to scratch myself from the competition. All day, I had anxiety,” Eischen told PK Press Club Digital. “My experience to meet on Chehalem track and gratinating me from the competition was traumatic, something that I never imagined having to do.”
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.
“It was emotionally traumatic to try to know what I had to do and how I should respond to competition with [the trans athlete]”Said Carpenter.
The experience prompted Carpenter to assert a visible point when she participated in the state championships this weekend. She presented herself to her high jump competition with a T-shirt from the XX-SHELETICS activist sportswear brand.
Now, beyond the simple fact of expressing themselves against the current laws of the state which allow men in their sports, Anderson, Hammond and Carpenter have suggested that the question will play strongly on the way in which they vote during future political elections.
“Just this last election, looking at the various beliefs between the two candidates, you had a candidate who openly believes that organic men should be allowed in women’s toilets and female sports, and who did nothing, and then you had another candidate who said” Hammond will be one of the first things I change “, and that’s what Donald Trump did,” said Hammond.
“In the future, that’s something I’m going to look for.”
Carpenter added: “I always believed in the voting on the basis of the Constitution … And although title IX is not one of the first things that were raised when our country was created, it dates back to the first amendment and fundamental human rights, and women also deserve these rights, and at the moment they are given to men who feel a certain way.”
The athlete of athletics of the girls of Oregon Sophia Carpenter. (Gracieuse of Sophia Carpenter)
In addition, while the trans athletes to which each girl faced played in their trauma, their position against the liberal laws of the state on the question is not addressed to these individuals. It is for legislators and education officials who allowed men to go to this point.
“I think they have just been misled,” said Hammond. “The faculty of my school feeds this, the faculty of other schools nourishes this saying” is good if you want to be another person. “”
In the past few days, Oregon has become one of the country’s heated battlefields on problems, because the state represents a symbolic meaning in the sport of athletics. Eugene, Oregon, nicknamed “Tracktown USA”, often hosts the world athletics championships, American Olympic trials and the NCAA championships.
Now, Anderson’s blow in the high school state championship has placed the state under the national microscope and a legal cabinet has already taken measures to bring federal action against the state.
While the Trump administration has focused a large part of its attention on the questions of Maine and California, the launch of federal surveys and even a lawsuit of the Ministry of Justice against Maine, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) filed a complaint in civil rights calling for federal intervention.
“Our investigation into the title IX and the violations of the first amendment in Oregon consists in defending girls and women away, silence and deactivating equity and freedom that they are guaranteed under federal law,” said the main lawyer for AFPI legal strategy, Leigh Ann O’Neill, PK Press Club Digital.
“When young women are invited to compete with male athletes or to remain silent – or, worse, are punished for having told the truth – we must act. Because no one is above the Constitution – not even state sports officials.”
