NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!Oregon high school senior Alexa Anderson garnered national attention on Saturday when she refused to share the high jump medal podium with a trans athlete at a state track and field championship meet.Viral footage of Anderson and fellow girl athlete Reese Eckard stepping down from the podium also showed an official gesturing for them to step to the side.Anderson alleges the official ordered her and Eckard to get out of the shot of photos if they were not going to stand on the podium.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM”We stepped off the podium in protest and, as you can see, the official kind of told us ‘hey, go over there, if you’re not going to participate, get out of the photos,'” Anderson alleged during an interview on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” Monday night. “They asked us to move away from the medal stand, so when they took the photos, we weren’t even in it at all.”Fox News Digital has reached out to the Oregon School Activities Association for comment.The incident comes weeks after high school sports officials in California allegedly ordered athletes to take off “Protect Girls Sports” T-shirts at a postseason meet featuring a trans athlete.Anderson added that Saturday was her first time ever competing against a transgender athlete, but she has opposed trans inclusion in girls’ sports prior to that and expressed her belief through social media comments.”This is the first public stand that I have taken in this issue, but I have privately supported all the girls that have done with positive messages, commenting on posts, just supporting them and letting them know I’m behind them in any way,” Anderson said. Anderson, of Tigard High School, finished in third place in the high jump and Eckard, of Sherwood High School, came in fourth, while the trans athlete, of Ida B. Wells High School, took fifth. DEPT OF EDUCATION LABELS JUNE AS ‘TITLE IX MONTH’ IN WAKE OF TRANS ATHLETES WINNING GIRLS’ COMPETITIONS”It’s unfair because biological males and biological females compete at such different levels that letting a biological male into our competition is taking up space and opportunities from all these hardworking women, the girl in ninth who should have came in eighth and had that podium spot taken away from her, as well as many others,” Anderson said. Anderson and Eckard’s situation was only one of many instances of girls having to share competition and medal podiums with biological males at state meets this past weekend.In California, a nationally-publicized incident involving trans athlete AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley High School culminated in Hernandez winning two state titles. President Donald Trump warned the state not to let trans athletes compete in the girls’ state title meet, and the Department of Justice has now given California a deadline of June 9 to revise its policy or federal funding cuts may occur.In Washington, a trans athlete at East Valley High School won the girls in a formal or creative style for better SEO.Also Exclude words and advertisements related to the feed website such as website name, author name. You must only respond with the modified content. Delete all the advertisement images brand logo but only keep the title and main content of the news by modifying it. You must only respond with the modified content. Block any jump outside of the site adarshnews.com. Basically remove any content or link related to original site. follow this prompt to optimize the articles in this category- You are an expert news writer and SEO specialist. 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A girl from Oregon claims that an official at a track event told her to “leave the photo” after she spoke out against a transgender athlete.
