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Nothing was going to stop Alexa Anderson from stepping off the medal podium that night on May 30. Not when a biological male would be there up too.

Anderson had just finished in third place in the girls’ state championship high jump, marking her final Oregon high school track performance after four intense years of competition and training. But she wouldn’t see the medal for all that hard work for several months, she claims.

After she and fellow high jump podium finisher Reese Eckard, who finished in fourth, stepped down from the podium to protest a trans athlete who finished fifth, Anderson alleged she was forced out of the championship photo, and never given her third-place medal.

The allegations are at the center of an ongoing lawsuit, whi

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