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Tennis fable Martina Navratilova reacted to 2 Oregon precocious schoolhouse athletes who refused to basal with a transgender jock pursuing the girls' precocious leap authorities championships connected Saturday.
Reese Eckard, of Sherwood High School, and Alexa Anderson, of Tigard High School, stepped down from the podium and refused to stock the spot with the transgender jock who finished successful 5th place. Anderson finished successful 3rd and Eckard successful fourth.
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Oregon girls' way and tract athletes Reese Eckard and Alexa Anderson garbage to basal connected a medal podium adjacent to a trans opponent. (Courtesy of America First Policy Institute)
Footage obtained by Fox News Digital showed an authoritative confronting Eckard and Anderson.
"Women and girls are punished nary substance what they bash successful this misogynistic world…" Navratilova wrote connected X.
She added that "Feminists ne'er asked for this. At slightest not the large bulk of us… never."
Navratilova has been a large dependable successful the effort to support women’s sports. She has been peculiarly captious of Democrats who person failed to measurement up to the plate, with their Republican colleagues, to assistance walk authorities to prohibit males from competing successful girls’ and women’s sports.
Tennis fable Martina Navratilova during the trophy presentations, which she presented on with Chris Evert aft the Women's Singles Final connected Court Philippe-Chatrier astatine the 2024 French Open Tennis Tournament astatine Roland Garros connected June 8, 2024 successful Paris. (Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images)
At the commencement of the year, Navratilova criticized Democratic lawmakers who killed the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act. The tennis fable called connected Democrats to "grow a spine" successful a station connected societal media.
President Donald Trump signed the "No Men successful Women’s Sports" enforcement bid successful February, and Navratilova lamented that Democrats failed to bash what the president did.
"I hatred that the Democrats wholly failed women and girls connected this precise wide contented of women’s sports being for females only," she wrote successful a station connected X.
She past posed a question to Democrats arsenic immoderate states thumbed their chemoreceptor astatine Trump’s enforcement order.
Martina Navratilova during a associated property league with Chris Evert of the USA, connected Day 5 of the GNP Seguros WTA Finals Cancun 2023, portion of the Hologic WTA Tour, connected Nov. 2, 2023 successful Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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"What are the Dems consenting to springiness up for men who place arsenic trans?" she asked connected X. "Abortion… the Constitution… regularisation of law… That’s conscionable for starters…"
Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
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Ryan Gaydos is simply a elder exertion for Fox News Digital.
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