Track star who protested trans athlete alleges she wasn't given her medal for months until she filed a lawsuit

Nothing was going to halt Alexa Anderson from stepping disconnected the medal podium that nighttime connected May 30. Not erstwhile a biologic antheral would beryllium determination up too. 

Anderson had conscionable finished successful 3rd spot successful the girls' authorities title precocious jump, marking her last Oregon precocious schoolhouse way show aft 4 aggravated years of contention and training. But she wouldn't spot the medal for each that hard enactment for respective months, she claims. 

After she and chap precocious leap podium finisher Reese Eckhard, who finished successful fourth, stepped down from the podium to protestation a trans jock who finished fifth, Anderson alleged she was forced retired of the title photo, and ne'er fixed her third-place medal. 

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The allegations are astatine the halfway of an ongoing lawsuit, which has already passed 1 ineligible hurdle aft a national justice denied an Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) question to onslaught charges from the suit.

"I asked aft the medal ceremonial concluded, we went into benignant of a passageway that leads you backmost retired to the audience, and I asked 1 of the officials, ‘Hey, are we going to get our medals?’ and she said they'd beryllium shipped to our school. And past they were ne'er shipped to our school," Anderson told Fox News Digital. 

Months of decease threats followed. Anderson claims galore critics adjacent called her school, Tigard High School successful Tigard, Oregon, lobbying for her expulsion, conscionable earlier graduating. 

She witnessed a puerility leader successful Simone Biles onslaught and "bodyshame" Riley Gaines successful defence of trans athletes successful women's sports – they precise happening she was present getting threatened for lasting up against. She witnessed a budding idol successful Charlie Kirk get assassinated portion speaking retired astir the trans community, each earlier she got her medal. 

And she witnessed it each earlier getting her medal, allegedly. 

She had to instrumentality the OSAA to court, suing implicit the alleged medal withholding and archetypal amendment violations, earlier yet getting her hardware.

"I did not person my medal until recently," Anderson said, adding the medals were sent straight to the instrumentality steadfast representing her successful the ineligible battle, America First Policy Institute (AFPI). 

Then, ceremoniously, the medals were presented to her and Eckard astatine the Fox Nation Patriot Awards earlier successful November, erstwhile the 2 received the Most Valuable Patriot award. 

OREGON ATHLETES WIN 'MOST VALUABLE PATRIOT' AWARD AFTER REFUSING TO SHARE PODIUM WITH TRANS COMPETITOR

Reese Eckard and Alexa Anderson judge the Most Valuable Patriot Award from Will Cain and Martha MacCallum onstage during the 2025 Fox Nation Patriot Awards astatine Tilles Center for the Performing Arts successful Greenvale, New York, connected Nov. 6, 2025. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

After each that waiting, Anderson present chooses to permission the medal astatine her parents' location successful Oregon, portion she warms up for her freshman play astatine the University of South Alabama.

"It's decidedly frustrating that we didn't get them successful the moment… but it kinda is what it is astatine this point. There's much important things that we're warring for," she said. "Of people I wanted that medal, I worked ace hard to get to that spot wherever I was connected the podium… but besides a portion of maine knew that it was portion of the sacrifice that I was making erstwhile I stepped disconnected that podium, and determination were going to beryllium consequences."

The consequences began close away, but got tougher implicit time.

There were consequences arsenic aboriginal arsenic the precise moments aft she stepped down from the podium connected May 30. 

"There were radical who conscionable kinda attacked america and were like, ‘You guys are bullies, you’re horrible people.'" 

Anderson antecedently told Fox News Digital successful June that astir of the online reception she got aft the incidental was positive. But that changed arsenic her communicative dispersed successful the pursuing weeks and months. 

She started to larn what beingness was truly similar astatine the halfway of the civilization warfare to "Save Women's Sports." 

"There were radical who were calling my schoolhouse asking for maine to beryllium expelled, not being allowed to locomotion astatine graduation," Anderson alleged. "There were radical messaging maine personally, conscionable saying horrible things, decease threats even.

"'I anticipation you die,'" work 1 message, she alleges, with different reading, "'Your parents are decidedly embarrassed of you…'

"It decidedly hurt." 

But it ne'er wounded capable to get her to basal down. 

Anderson said nary of the harassment was capable for her to fearfulness taking things further with a lawsuit. 

"Part of maine expected this and knew that's conscionable what happens erstwhile you basal up for what you judge in," she said.

OREGON GIRLS WHO PROTESTED TRANS ATHLETE AT TRACK AND FIELD MEDAL PODIUM SCORE LEGAL WIN IN LAWSUIT 

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)

And present her and Eckard's suit is progressing.

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.

Anderson said she regularly witnessed different athletes crossed her four-year precocious schoolhouse vocation protestation astatine events, without ever getting punished. 

"I've seen a batch of code astir enactment and rights for the LGBTQ community, the trans community, a batch of the Black Lives Matter question worldly … wearing shirts, flags, that benignant of stuff," she said. "I deliberation it's truly harmful to students to lone let them to explicit definite viewpoints that you hold with." 

Still, she ne'er saw anyone other measurement down from a podium successful protest. That's her signature. 

As Anderson and Eckard beforehand their lawsuit, they are aiming to bring extortion of the First Amendment for each the state's students, careless of their beliefs. 

Her lawyer astatine AFPI, Leigh'Ann O'Neill, told Fox News Digital what it would instrumentality to settee the lawsuit. 

"OSAA needs to precise affirmatively instrumentality a basal and show that they volition respect each viewpoints from their athletes and pariticpants successful their different extracurricular activities successful Oregon," O'Neill said. "When are we going to spot Oregon measurement and marque it wide to their athletes that it is good for you to disagree with us?

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"There are nominal damages requested arsenic portion of the lawsuit, which is benignant of a technicality, and its truly astir ensuring the extortion of their escaped speech." 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the OSAA and Tigard High School for comment. 

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