Oregon girls who protested trans athlete at track and field medal podium score legal win in lawsuit

Oregon teens Alexa Anderson and Reese Eckard scored a triumph successful their ineligible conflict against the state's precocious schoolhouse sports relation aft they stepped down from a medal podium to protestation a trans jock successful May.

Anderson and Eckard's suit against the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) alleges the league excluded them from authoritative photos aft the protestation and adjacent withheld their medals. The suit argues the girls' First Amendment rights were infringed upon by the officials.

U.S. District Court Judge Youlee Yim You denied the OSAA's question to onslaught a information of the suit that highlighted what forms of governmental code the league does allow, including Black Lives Matter and pro-LGBTQ pridefulness messaging, which was a cardinal constituent successful the plaintiffs' argument.

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Anderson condemned the OSAA for attempting to onslaught that statement successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

"I'm not amazed OSAA thought their past behaviour didn't substance — oregon that the justice disagreed. That's the happening with bias: The worst offenders are the ones who can't spot their ain behaviour for what it is," Anderson said.

Anderson and Eckard are being represented successful their lawsuit by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI).

"This whitethorn look similar a tiny procedural win, but it’s really a large one. Every clip a justice refuses to fto authorities officials oregon institutions soundlessness women for speaking the truth, it’s a triumph for the First Amendment and for communal sense," the AFPI said successful a connection provided to Fox News Digital.

"When the OSAA proudly celebrates causes similar BLM and Pride Month but past punishes our plaintiffs for expressing a different, arsenic protected belief, it exposes the hypocrisy astatine the bosom of their actions. The Constitution doesn’t fto authorities officials prime which viewpoints are acceptable. And today’s ruling reaffirmed that truth."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the OSAA for remark connected You's ruling.

Anderson and Eckard were honored astatine the seventh yearly Fox Nation Patriot Awards Thursday night, receiving the Most Valuable Patriot Award for their protestation successful May.

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"I’m truthful incredibly grateful, and nary of this would've been imaginable without the enactment of each azygous 1 of you who has seen our story, who has shared it and brought our communicative and our combat into the nationalist spotlight," Anderson said during her acceptance speech.

"I privation to commencement disconnected by thanking God. I convey God that you’re each present tonight. I convey God that He gave Alexa and I the courageousness to basal for truth," Eckard added. "There are truthful galore girls that merit this grant for their courage."

The 2 precocious schoolhouse way stars, who person continued successful their athletics astatine the collegiate level, joined "Fox & Friends" Friday greeting to sermon the grant and the interaction that determination has had connected their lives and the combat for women’s rights.

"To get that grant was honestly conscionable specified an honor. It was ne'er thing that I thought would hap erstwhile we stepped disconnected that podium," Anderson said.

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Reflecting connected the determination to talk out, she "100%" believes it was worthy it.

"I deliberation warring for the rights of women’s sports to person a harmless and just situation is going to beryllium a combat we’re going to beryllium a portion of for years — possibly adjacent our lifetime. And it’s truthful incredibly worthy it if we tin assistance each these girls to person a harmless and just environment."

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