Track star fires off message about trans-inclusion in female athletics: 'It’s not fair and it’s not safe'

Alexa Anderson, the erstwhile precocious schoolhouse way jock successful Oregon who made waves erstwhile she refused to stock a podium with a transgender rival earlier this year, had a connection for girls who are inactive experiencing the aforesaid issues connected Monday.

While polls suggest that astir Americans judge that females should lone vie against females successful sports, not each states person complied with President Donald Trump’s enforcement bid to barroom transgender athletes from competing against the sex they place as.

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Alexa Anderson is simply a erstwhile Oregon precocious schoolhouse girls' way and tract prima and existent women's jock astatine the University of South Alabama. (Courtesy of Alexa Anderson)

Anderson appeared connected "America’s Newsroom" connected Monday and said girls and women alike request to instrumentality a stand.

"My connection is it’s not just and it’s not safe, and we person to basal up arsenic the girls affected by this issue," she told Fox News Channel’s Dana Perino. "It is our occupation to basal up and archer the radical successful complaint that we are not OK with this and we privation change."

Anderson and her teammate, Reese Eckard, decided to measurement disconnected the podium aft finishing successful 3rd spot astatine the Oregon authorities championships successful precocious jump. The infinitesimal went viral crossed the net and helped intensify the spotlight connected transgender athletes competing against women.

Oregon girls' way and tract athletes Reese Eckard and Alexa Anderson don't basal connected a medal podium adjacent to a trans opponent. (Courtesy of America First Policy Institute)

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Anderson precocious elaborate to Fox News Digital the decease threats she received and the combat to adjacent get her medal from the Oregon School Activities Association.

While speaking to Perino, Anderson recalled the infinitesimal she decided to instrumentality her stand.

"It was a precise stressful moment," Anderson said. "There were a batch of eyes connected us. But successful my heart, I knew that allowing biologic men into women’s sports is not just and I had to instrumentality a basal for that for each girls who had been affected by it."

She added that she wouldn’t person done thing differently.

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"While determination has been a batch of antagonistic speech and sanction calling, I person been overwhelmed with the enactment and kindness of truthful galore radical that it has been worthy it. Just anticipation that we get change," she said.

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