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USA Gymnastics appeared to delete its transgender eligibility policy pages on its website. When the pages were officially taken offline is currently unknown. 

The organization has come under heavy public scrutiny since Friday after Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles ignited a feud with former NCAA swimmer and conservative activist Riley Gaines on social media over the issue of trans athlete inclusion. 

Previous links to three of the organization's pages outlining its transgender eligibility policies are currently offline. 

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One link previously led to a November 2020 announcement that the organization no longer required trans athletes to undergo sex reassignment, legal gender recognition, and hormone therapy in order to compete in the gender category of their choosing, as seen in an archive by the Wayback Machine. That page still shows up in search results, but the link now goes to a 404 error page. 

Another link previously went to a three-page PDF pamphlet of USA Gymnastics guidelines for transgender and non-binary athletes, as seen in a Wayback Machine archive. That link is now inaccessible, but is still a top result on search engines. 

Another link previously went to a nine-page PDF USA Gymnastics pamphlet titled "Transgender Athlete Inclusion Resources: Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Athletes," as seen in a Wayback Machine archive. That link is also no longer accessible. 

The official USA Gymnastics website's governance documents page featured the transgender and non-binary guidelines and resources pages as recently as April, as seen in a Wayback Machine archive. But now those links are absent from the governance documents page. 

The Wayback Machine is unable to pinpoint exactly when a web page was deleted or changed.

Fox News Digital has reached out USA Gymnastics for comment. 

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The feud between Biles and Gaines has become one of the most viral topics on social media in the last three days, dominating the top trending section on X, while prompting heated debates and controversial media coverage of the issue. 

Gaines said in a social media video on Saturday that multiple Team USA athletes have reached out to her to say she agrees with her stance against allowing males in women's sports.

The feud started when Biles took issue with Gaines calling out a Minnesota high school whose softball team won a state championship Friday with a transgender pitcher. 

Marissa Rothenberger, a transgender athlete, threw a shutout to help Champlin Park High School win a state title. 

Gaines, the host of OutKick's "Gaines for Girls" podcast, noted that comments on X were turned off on the Minnesota State High School League’s post with a photo of the team on social media. 

"To be expected when your star player is a boy," Gaines wrote. 

Biles responded, calling Gaines "truly sick" for her comment and saying Gaines should be "uplifting" transgender athletes. Biles sent a second post on X telling Gaines to "bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male." 

Biles has been the subject of widespread criticism by conservatives and women's sports rights activists alike. 

President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. even joined in on the criticism with a pair of posts on X. 

Other major Team USA sport governing bodies have quietly amended their transgender policies amid rising opposition to trans inclusion in women's and girls' sports. 

USA Track and Field (USATF) official transgender eligibility policy now references the World Athletics guidelines on its official webpage. 

USATF previously referenced the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s policy, as seen in an archive via Wayback Machine. 

The IOC allows biological males to compete in the women's category, while World Athletics bans any athlete who has undergone male puberty from competing as a woman.

USA Fencing announced in April that it is preparing to change its gender-eligibility policy, after a viral protest by women's fencer Stephanie Turner sparked mass backlash and federal intervention by protesting a trans opponent. 

The organization said it is preparing to amend its current policies that allow biological males to compete with women and girls in the event that it is "forced" to change it. 

"In the event that USA Fencing is forced to change its current stance in accordance with oversight bodies or federal legislation, the new policy states athletes competing in USA Fencing-sanctioned tournaments must compete according to their biological sex," the announcement read. 

The proposed updated policy ensures that the women's category "will be open exclusively to athletes of the female sex." The men's category "will be open to all other athletes who are otherwise eligible for competition."

Trump signed an executive order in February to ban trans athletes from women's and girls' sports, as the majority of Americans proved to oppose biological males being allowed to compete and share locker rooms with females. 

A New York Times/Ipsos survey found the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don't think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women's sports. 

Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women's sports. Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democratic, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women. 

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EXCLUSIVE: A transgender softball pitcher in Minnesota sent shock waves throughout the nation after leading Champlin Park High School to a state championship on Friday. 

The trans athlete's participation in the girls' softball season was in defiance of President Donald Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order, and is the focus of a lawsuit filed by three anonymous female players. 

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The White House responded to news of the trans athlete's championship in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital. 

"President Trump is protecting women in sports and restoring common sense. Those who choose to violate federal law will be held accountable," White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in response to an inquiry on the situation in Minnesota.

Minnesota is currently under a federal investigation for potential Title IX violations for refusing to comply with Trump's executive order. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit against Trump's administration in April in an effort to protect its current gender eligibility policies. 

The state also failed to pass a bill that would have barred biological males from girls' and women's sports in early March after Democrats in the state's legislature voted against it. 

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This allowed the trans pitcher, junior Marissa Rothenberger, to have a dominant playoff run for Champlin Park. 

Rothenberger threw a complete-game shutout, allowing just three hits and striking out six in the championship game Friday, capping off a run that saw Rothenberger pitch all 21 innings across three state tournament games, giving up just two runs.

The junior allowed just two runs across 35 total innings in the postseason.

Then, after conservative influencer and former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines shared news of Rothenberger's victory on X on Friday, it sparked a widely publicized feud with Olympic gymnast Simone Biles. 

Biles responded to a post in which Gaines pointed out that the Minnesota State High School League disabled comments on its post announcing Champlin Park's softball team as state champions, calling Gaines "truly sick."

The feud has sparked widespread backlash against Biles, including by Trump's son Donald Trump Jr.

The White House has previously addressed Ellison's lawsuit against Trump's administration in a statement to Fox News Digital, as well. 

"Why would a grown man sue the Trump administration to allow other biological males to participate in women’s sports? This is creepy and anti-woman," Fields said in April. 

A New York Times/Ipsos survey found the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don't think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women's sports. 

Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women's sports. Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democratic, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women. 

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M.S. had worked for years to become one of the top pitchers on her club softball team. She trained hard, earned her spot and was used to competing under pressure. But when she learned that the teammate she was now expected to compete against for pitching time was actually male, everything changed.

"I just started bawling right away," the 17-year-old told OutKick. "I was pushing myself all season to do my best, and once I found out, I was like, all that work was for nothing — because the boy's still gonna beat me no matter what."

M.S. ultimately made the decision to walk away from her club team. For her, she said, it was a no-brainer.

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"If there’s a boy on this team, I’m not going to be playing," she said.

That boy (who identifies as a girl) was Champlin Park High School junior Marissa Rothenberger, who took the mound in the Class AAAA Minnesota girls' softball state championship game on Friday morning and led the team to a title after pitching a shutout. 

Now, M.S. is a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit filed by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) on behalf of Female Athletes United (FAU). The lawsuit challenges the state of Minnesota and its public school districts over policies that allow trans-identifying male athletes to compete in girls' sports.

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The lawsuit, filed last month, argues that Minnesota’s gender-identity-based eligibility rules are a direct violation of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in education, including athletics.

"Minnesota currently has a policy that allows male athletes to compete in women’s sports," explained ADF Legal Counsel Suzanne Beecher, who is representing the athletes. "But under Title IX, schools that accept federal funding are required to provide equal opportunities for female athletes. Title IX preempts state policies like this, which violate the equal accommodation requirement of federal law."

The problem, Beecher said, goes beyond basic fairness. It’s also about safety, lost opportunity and institutional neglect.

"This is harming girls," she told OutKick. "It’s putting them at safety risks, and it’s also denying them the opportunity to advance and experience victory. These are girls who have dedicated hours and years of hard work to being the best they can be. It’s heartbreaking to see that Minnesota's unfair policies are denying them a level playing field."

In February, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning males from competing in girls' and women's sports, citing these same Title IX protections. The order made clear that any state failing to comply would risk losing federal funding.

In direct defiance of this order, the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) announced that it would continue its longstanding policy of allowing student-athletes to compete in events consistent with their gender identity, regardless of biological sex. The league cited the Minnesota Human Rights Act and the state constitution as the basis for this policy.

Further, Minnesota allows individuals to change the sex marker on their birth certificate with either a letter from a physician or a court order, creating a loophole that essentially renders sex-based protections useless.

"The justification for having separate sports is because of the physiological differences between males and females," Beecher said. "States need to have policies that meaningfully separate sports so there is a protected category for females. Girls deserve a fair and safe place where they can compete and win."

The issue exploded into public view this week during the MSHSL Girls’ State Softball Tournament, where Rothenberger helped lead Champlin Park High School to the state championship game. Champlin Park took down Eagan High School, 5-0, in the quarterfinals and White Bear Lake, 3-2, in the semifinals. In addition to pitching back-to-back complete games, Rothenberger hit two doubles in that semifinal win.

M.S. pitched in the tournament for Farmington High School but lost in the quarterfinals. She didn’t have to face Rothenberger directly, but she watched closely as other girls did.

"There are so many more girls that deserve it more than just a boy," she said. "It was just so sad to see all the girls crying and having to accept the fact that their chance at winning a state title was taken from them just because a boy was pitching against them."

M.S. has already committed to play college softball at St. Cloud State, but her decision to join the lawsuit wasn't just about herself — it was about protecting girls’ sports for those coming next.

"I wanted to join the lawsuit because it’s just painful to see a boy dominating the sport that me and other girls have grown up playing," she said. "It's been a safe space for so long. And to see that safe space change — I feel like that’s the biggest reason why I wanted to do it."

And her message going forward is simple: "I want just girls playing in girls' sports. Get men out of women's sports."

ADF says Minnesota's policy doesn’t just violate federal law — it also silences those impacted by it. As OutKick previously reported, several parents and students in the tournament were warned by school officials not to speak out or wear messages opposing trans participation in the state tournament.

"Not only is Title IX being violated, but also the voices of female athletes are being silenced," Beecher said. "They’re being told they can’t speak out about their rights."

Kristi Burton Brown, chairperson of the board for Female Athletes United, issued a powerful statement to OutKick in support of M.S. and the others.

"Minnesota's extreme gender ideology has caused many girls in Minnesota to lose out on opportunities and risk their safety, including three of our high school athletes," she wrote. "Science is clear that male athletes have physiological advantages that make it unfair and unsafe to allow them to compete against women, no matter how they identify. But Minnesota places its ideology over fairness and safety. 

"The only way to protect female athletes' safety and opportunities is to ensure that only girls compete in girls' sports. Minnesota is failing its female athletes, and its policy must be changed to reflect biological reality."

M.S. will be back on the field next year for her senior season. Maybe by then, the rules will catch up with reality.

"I hope that the state tournament next year is a lot different than it was this year," she said.

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The 2024-25 school year in the U.S. was beset by a series of controversies involving trans athletes playing for girls' sports teams. 

Many of these incidents have garnered national attention and ignited heated debates. 

President Donald Trump took aim at this issue on Feb. 5 when he signed the "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order, but multiple Democrat-controlled states defied it. 

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As the school year and spring sports season come to a close, here is a breakdown of all the incidents that shook the nation over the last year.

California was the nation's biggest hotbed of incidents involving trans athletes in girls' sports. 

Transgender athlete AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley High School won the girls' triple jump and high jump state championships this past weekend against the backdrop of local protests and national attention after Trump called out the situation earlier last week. California's high school sports league responded by amending its rules to accommodate female athletes who finished behind a trans athlete in the three events Hernandez competed in, granting them qualification and podium finishes they would have earned had a biologically male athlete not competed in those events. 

This resulted in Hernandez having to share podium spots with the female athletes who finished one spot behind Hernandez after the finals on Saturday. 

Meanwhile, the protests at the meet escalated into a violent crime scene after a pro-LGBTQ protester was arrested for allegedly assaulting a conservative with a transgender pride flag, women's rights activist Sophia Lorey was police escorted out of the venue for handing out "Save Girls Sports" wristbands, and a plane flew over head with a banner that read "No Boys in Girls' Sports!" 

However, months before Hernandez took the titles at the chaotic track meet, a girls' cross-country controversy at Martin Luther King High School resulted in a lawsuit and student uprising. 

Students Kaitlyn Slavin and Taylor Starling filed the lawsuit against the Riverside Unified School District after a trans athlete took Starling's varsity spot on the girls' cross-country team, and alleged the school administrators compared "Save Girls Sports" T-shirts the girls wore in protest to swastikas. 

Then hundreds of students at the school began to wear the shirts every Wednesday despite the school putting a dress code in place to forbid it. The school began putting the students wearing them in detention, but that did not stop the teens from wearing them. Eventually, the school stopped punishing students for wearing the shirts, and they continued to wear them every week. 

In the fall and winter sports seasons, a transgender athlete for San Francisco Waldorf ignited national controversy for the school's girls' volleyball and basketball teams. 

During the girls' volleyball season, Stone Ridge Christian's team forfeited a playoff game to Waldorf. The Stone Ridge Christian girls sacrificed their season to take a public stand by refusing to face the trans athlete and were later honored by activist Riley Gaines. 

Then in February, the trans athlete was set to face Cornerstone Christian in a girls' basketball playoff game, just weeks after Trump signed his executive order. That time, it was San Francisco Waldorf's player who refused to play, skipping the game amid warnings by the U.S. Department of Education, which Fox News Digital first reported. With the trans athlete out of the lineup, San Francisco Waldorf lost the playoff game by 26 points. 

Another California transgender high school volleyball player was booed and harassed at an Oct. 12 match between Notre Dame Belmont and Half Moon Bay High School, according to ABC 7. Half Moon Bay rostered the transgender athlete.

During the Lucia Mar Unified School District board meeting in April, a high-school junior girls' track athlete at Arroyo Grande High School named Celeste Diest took the lectern to recount her experience of having to change in front of a biologically male trans athlete before practice, while that athlete allegedly watched her undress. The school board president told Diest to "wrap it up" while the teen cried.

Then, at the following meeting, a girl named Audrey Vanherweg said she had to change in her car to avoid changing with the trans athlete. At the very same meeting, a trans athlete at the school also spoke. 

"When I joined track last year, I was terrified," the athlete said. "I was alone, and I feared for my life. When I started going to track practice, I was too afraid to make friends. I thought they would reject and mock me for being transgender. At my first meet, I sat alone, on the wet, muddy ground.

"I fear that somebody would accuse me of a heinous crime, so I walked on razor-thin ice. I never spent longer than three minutes in the locker room. I never made eye contact with people," the athlete said. "And yet, people still accuse me, someone who deals with sexual harassment on a daily basis, of being a predator. So, I'm here to say that I am not the villain, I am the victim."  

Maine became ground zero for Trump's campaign to force Democrat leaders to comply with his executive order in February after a spat between him and Gov. Janet Mills during a bi-partisan meeting of governors at the White House. 

The spat occurred days after a transgender athlete for Greely High School won a girls' pole vault state title. Greely's athlete had previously competed in boys' track and field two years earlier. 

"I watched this male pole vaulter stand on the podium, and we were all just like looking we were like ‘We’re pretty sure that's not a girl. There's no way that's a girl,'" Presque Isle student Hailey Himes previously told Fox News Digital. "It was really discouraging, especially for the girls on the podium not in first place. So that motivated me to fight for them." 

Meanwhile, another trans athlete in the state for North Yarmouth Academy has beaten multiple girls' athletes in cross-country, track and field and Nordic Skiing. 

Maine girls' athlete Cassidy Carlisle of Presque Isle High School lost big competitions to North Yarmouth's trans athlete in both cross-country and Nordic skiing. 

"The defeat that comes with that in that moment is heartbreaking," Carlisle said. "I'm just in shock in a way. I didn't believe it. … I didn't think it was happening to me."

Now, both Greely's and North Yarmouth's trans athletes are set to compete in the upcoming girls' track and field state finals this weekend. 

Minnesota's girls' softball season is currently at the center of national attention as a transgender pitcher is leading Champlin Park High School on a dominant postseason run. 

The pitcher led Champlin Park to the state tournament with a dominant shutout victory in the sectional final on Thursday, and now the school will compete in the state tournament for the first time in program history on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, a lawsuit by three anonymous female players has been filed against the state for allowing the player to compete.

The law firm representing the plaintiffs, Alliance Defending Freedom, provided statements from one of the female players about her experience facing the trans athlete. 

"Hitting against him is not only a physical challenge but a mental, too. It’s a mental battle knowing that he has an advantage in the sport that I grew up playing, making it hard to even want to hit against him. His ability to get outs and spin the ball is a strong advantage, but like I said it’s also incredibly mentally challenging knowing that you’re competing against someone who has unfair advantages leaving you with little to no confidence," the player said. 

"This issue has affected me in ways that I never imagined. It’s simply unfair, and I hate that nothing is happening to change that. Boys should not be able to take girls' spots on teams just because they are capable of doing so. I hope that more girls affected by this issue will stand up against this."

Oregon was thrust into the national spotlight over the issue this past weekend at the state track and field championships when two female athletes went viral for refusing to take the podium next to a trans athlete after medaling in the girls' high jump. 

The two high school seniors, Reese Eckard of Sherwood High School and Alexa Anderson of Tigard High School, stepped down from their respective spots on the podium next to a trans athlete who represented Ida B. Wells High School. 

Eckard, in fourth place, and Anderson, in third, each finished ahead of the trans athlete, who tied for fifth place. However, the two females faced the opposite direction as the other competitors received their medals from officials. 

Anderson alleges the official ordered her and Eckard to get out of the shot of photos if they were not going to stand on the podium.

"We stepped off the podium in protest and, as you can see, the official kind of told us 'hey, go over there, if you’re not going to participate, get out of the photos,'" Anderson alleged during an interview on Fox News Channel's "The Ingraham Angle" Monday night. 

"They asked us to move away from the medal stand, so when they took the photos, we weren't even in it at all."

In early April, the Ida B. Wells trans athlete finished first place in a varsity high jump competition roughly two years after finishing last while competing against junior varsity boys. 

Back in March, a trans athlete for McDaniel High School finished in first place in the 200M and 400M races during the 6A-1 Portland Interscholastic League Championship in 2024, breaking season records.

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Despite having a law in place to restrict biological males in girls' sports, three trans athletes found their way onto girls' sports teams in New Hampshire over the last year. 

Plymouth Regional High School's Parker Tirrell competed on the girls' tennis team, Pembroke Academy's Iris Turmelle competed on that school's girls' soccer team, as their families have filed a lawsuit to enable the trans athletes' respective inclusion on each team. After Trump's executive order, they expanded the lawsuit to include his administration as well. 

In September, parents wore pink "XX" wristbands during a high school soccer game that Tirrell played in to show support to the female athletes involved. The protest led to Bow and Dunbarton School Districts Superintendent Marcy Kelley issuing a notice of trespass against parents Anthony and Nicole Foote, along with Kyle Fellers and Eldon Rash, according to the New Hampshire Journal.

The parents then sued the school district, claiming their First Amendment rights were violated. However, in mid-April, U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe ruled that the district acted reasonably in its decision to prevent parents from wearing the wristbands.

Meanwhile, Bishop Brady High School saw its girls' soccer team boycott a game against Kearsage Regional High School over a trans athlete on that team in October. 

The judge who made the ruling to overrule the state's laws preventing trans inclusion in girls' sports was Landya McCafferty, who is a liberal appointed to her seat by former President Barack Obama in 2013. 

In February, a civil rights complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights on behalf of a teenage girl in Washington state who was allegedly punished for refusing to play a basketball game against a trans athlete. 

The complaint alleged that the Tumwater School District in Washington investigated 15-year-old Frances Staudt for "misgendering" the opponent and violating the district's policies against bullying and harassment on Feb. 7. 

Staudt appeared on the YouTube series "[un]Divided with Brandie Kruse" with her mother to discuss the situation later that month. 

"I've had threats at me. I've had people telling me I'm going to hell. I've had people saying, ‘Good luck having any future after this’ and saying, ‘I know all the people who are reporting your account are happy to see your downfall, and know that it’s going to be a real rough time for you in your future because of your decision to post this,'" Staudt said

Just days later, the trans athlete involved in the incident, identified as Andi Rooks, appeared on the same show alongside the athlete's father. 

"I've never had an issue until this game, and my goal was never to make anybody uncomfortable in any way, and I didn't even realize Frances had an issue until I got yelled at at the game," Rooks said. "If she had had a conversation with me before the game, I would have sat out. My last thing I want to do is make anybody uncomfortable."

Rooks added that the athlete will sit out any future games if opponents are uncomfortable facing a trans athlete. 

"If any other person or player I'm playing against is like, ‘I don’t feel comfortable with this,' I don't mind sitting out," Rooks said. 

The Tumwater School District went on to pass its own rule to ban trans athletes from girls' sports, before a Department of Education investigation was launched against the district for the incident. 

Then this past weekend, Verónica Garcia, a transgender competitor, has been on top of the competition in the girls’ 400-meter races during the Washington state outdoor season in 2025 and finished in first place during the state championships on Saturday.

Garcia, who competes for East Valley High School in Spokane, took home the title in the 2A race for the second straight year. Garcia finished first in the 2A Greater Spokane League District Championship on May 23 and won several other regular-season races over the course of the year.

Garcia told The Seattle Times there were boos from the crowd that did not agree that biological males should compete against girls in sports. However, Garcia fired back with a defiant message after the race was over.

"I’ll be honest, I kind of expect it," Garcia told the outlet. "But it maybe didn’t have their intended effect. It made me angry, but not angry as in, I wanted to give up, but angry as in, I’m going to push.

"I’m going to put this in the most PG-13 way. I’m just going to say it’s a damn shame they don’t have anything else better to do. I hope they get a life. But oh well. It just shows who they are as people."

In May, Plymouth Whitemarsh High School trans athlete Luce Allen took first place in the Liberty Girls' 200-meter race at the SOL American Conference Championships. Allen barely defeated the second-place runner by fewer than two-hundredths of a second. 

Allen's parents had previously said that it would be "cruel" to "force" the male athlete to compete against boys and that Allen should be allowed to race against girls because that is how the athlete "identifies." 

"My child is a female in her heart and soul, and according to her medical labs. Having her play sports with males would be cruel," Allen's mother, Sarah Hansen said, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Through an attorney, Allen released a statement that said, in part, "If you remove the ability of trans people to compete with a team that corresponds with their gender, then you’ll strip them of their opportunity to develop as people." 

In April, a trans athlete joined the girls' varsity track team William Floyd High School despite not being on hormone replacement treatment, according to The New York Post. 

A group of female student athletes told the South Shore Press they would feel uncomfortable if they had to share a locker room with a biologically male competitor.

Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old freshman at Bridgeport Senior High School who has been the subject of a Supreme Court case about their participation in girls’ sports, finished in third place in the discus event and eighth in the shot put competition at the West Virginia state championship in late May. 

A federal appeals court blocked a West Virginia law that would have kept biological males from competing against girls and women in sports last year. The court said the law cannot lawfully be applied to a middle school-aged trans girl who has been taking puberty-blocking medication and has publicly identified as a girl since the third grade.

West Virginia has since made an appeal to the Supreme Court regarding the appeals court’s ruling.

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Oregon high school senior Alexa Anderson garnered national attention on Saturday when she refused to share the high jump medal podium with a trans athlete at a state track and field championship meet.

Viral footage of Anderson and fellow girl athlete Reese Eckard stepping down from the podium also showed an official gesturing for them to step to the side.

Anderson alleges the official ordered her and Eckard to get out of the shot of photos if they were not going to stand on the podium.

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"We stepped off the podium in protest and, as you can see, the official kind of told us 'hey, go over there, if you’re not going to participate, get out of the photos,'" Anderson alleged during an interview on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" Monday night. 

"They asked us to move away from the medal stand, so when they took the photos, we weren't even in it at all."

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Oregon School Activities Association for comment.

The incident comes weeks after high school sports officials in California allegedly ordered athletes to take off "Protect Girls Sports" T-shirts at a postseason meet featuring a trans athlete.

Anderson added that Saturday was her first time ever competing against a transgender athlete, but she has opposed trans inclusion in girls' sports prior to that and expressed her belief through social media comments.

"This is the first public stand that I have taken in this issue, but I have privately supported all the girls that have done with positive messages, commenting on posts, just supporting them and letting them know I'm behind them in any way," Anderson said. 

Anderson, of Tigard High School, finished in third place in the high jump and Eckard, of Sherwood High School, came in fourth, while the trans athlete, of Ida B. Wells High School, took fifth. 

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"It's unfair because biological males and biological females compete at such different levels that letting a biological male into our competition is taking up space and opportunities from all these hardworking women, the girl in ninth who should have came in eighth and had that podium spot taken away from her, as well as many others," Anderson said.  

Anderson and Eckard's situation was only one of many instances of girls having to share competition and medal podiums with biological males at state meets this past weekend.

In California, a nationally-publicized incident involving trans athlete AB Hernandez of Jurupa Valley High School culminated in Hernandez winning two state titles. President Donald Trump warned the state not to let trans athletes compete in the girls' state title meet, and the Department of Justice has now given California a deadline of June 9 to revise its policy or federal funding cuts may occur.

In Washington, a trans athlete at East Valley High School won the girls' 400-meter 2A state title on Saturday. In response, multiple girls at Tumwater High School, which was at the center of a controversy involving a girls' basketball player being reprimanded for refusing to face a trans opponent in the winter, protested Monday during school hours with a large banner sign that read, "This is not a walk out (sic). We are not going anywhere."

Other girls' postseason track and field meets that saw trans athletes compete this weekend took place in Maine and Minnesota.

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a nonpartisan research institute, filed a Title IX discrimination complaint against Oregon for its laws that allow biological males to compete in girls' sports on May 27. 

The complaint was filed to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, which has already launched Title IX investigations against high school sports leagues in California, Minnesota, Maine and Massachusetts. 

"Every girl deserves a fair shot – on the field, on the podium, and in life," said Jessica Hart Steinmann, AFPI’s executive general counsel and vice chair of the Center for Litigation, in a statement. 

"When state institutions knowingly force young women to compete against biological males, they’re violating federal law and sending a devastating message to female athletes across the country."

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A pair of girls' track and field athletes did not stand on the medal podium alongside a transgender athlete for high jump at the Oregon state championship on Saturday night. 

Footage obtained by Fox News Digital showed the two high school seniors, Reese Eckard of Sherwood High School and Alexa Anderson of Tigard High School, step down from their respective spots on the podium next to a trans athlete who represented Ida B. Wells High School. 

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Eckard, in fourth place, and Anderson, in third, each finished ahead of the trans athlete, who tied for fifth place. But the two females faced the opposite direction as the other competitors received their medals from officials. 

The footage then showed an official confront the two young women, and gesture for them to move away. Eckard and Anderson were then seen walking away from the podium and standing off to the side. 

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Oregon School Activities Association for a response. 

The trans athlete previously competed in the boys' category in 2023 and 2024, Fox News Digital previously reported.

Eckard and Anderson were praised for not standing on the podium on social media, and were even shouted out by prominent conservative activist Riley Gaines. 

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"We didn’t refuse to stand on the podium out of hate. We did it because someone has to say this isn’t right. In order to protect the integrity and fairness of girls sports we must stand up for what is right," Anderson said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

Girls and women making symbolic gestures to protest trans inclusion in sports has become a growing trend in 2025. 

On May 17 at a California track and field sectional final, Reese Hogan of Crean Lutheran High School stepped from the second-place spot onto the first-place medal podium after her trans opponent, AB Hernandez stepped down from it. Hogan's stunt was lauded on social media by Gaines and others. 

On April 2, footage of women's fencer Stephanie Turner kneeling to protest a trans opponent at a competition in Maryland, and subsequently getting punished for it, went viral and ignited global awareness and scrutiny against USA Fencing.

Oregon is one of many Democratic-controlled states that saw transgender athletes compete in girls' track and field championships this weekend, with other highly-publicized incidents taking place in California, Washington, Maine and Minnesota. 

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a nonpartisan research institute, filed a Title IX discrimination complaint against Oregon for its laws that allow biological males to compete in girls' sports on May 27. 

The complaint was filed to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, which has already launched Title IX investigations against the high school sports leagues in California, Minnesota, Maine and Massachusetts. 

"Every girl deserves a fair shot – on the field, on the podium, and in life," said Jessica Hart Steinmann, AFPI’s executive general counsel and vice chair of the Center for Litigation, in a statement. 

"When state institutions knowingly force young women to compete against biological males, they’re violating federal law and sending a devastating message to female athletes across the country."

President Donald Trump signed the "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order on Feb. 5 and his administration has made combating the continued enabling of trans athletes in girls' sports by Democratic states a priority. 

The U.S. Department of Justice has already launched a lawsuit against Maine for its defiance of Trump's executive order, and the president suggested on Tuesday that federal funding pauses could be coming against California amid the situation involving Hernandez.

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President Donald Trump reiterated that girls and women "will not" compete against transgender athletes during his commencement speech at West Point Saturday.

Trump signed an executive order Feb. 5 that prohibits biological boys and men from competing in girls and women's sports.

While speaking to 1,002 graduates, Trump revisited the topic.

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"We will not have men in women's sports, if that's OK," he said. "I mean, I wouldn't want to have to tackle, as an example, (quarterback) Bryson (Daily) as a man. But I don't think a lot of women want to tackle him. I don't think so. How crazy is it? Men playing in women's sports. How crazy is it? So ridiculous. So demeaning. So demeaning to women. And it's over. That's over. We ended it."

Several states have defied Trump's order, resulting in federal Title IX investigations. The Department of Agriculture also temporarily ended federal funding to the state of Maine, but the funding was restored by a federal judge.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills and Trump got into a highly-publicized spat shortly after the order was signed.

Earlier this month, a school district in Washington, a blue state, voted to keep trans athletes out of girls sports. The ruling defies a policy by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA), enacted in 2007, that allows transgender students to participate based on their gender identity.

In May, a trans athlete competed in a girls cross-country championship in the state and won. 

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Trump delivered a similar notion while speaking to graduates at the University of Alabama earlier this month.

A New York Times/Ipsos survey found the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don't think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women's sports. 

Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women's sports. Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democrat, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women. 

Nearly 70% of Americans say biological men should not be permitted to compete in women's sports, according to a Gallup poll last year.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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A school district in a state with a Democratic governor has voted to keep biological boys out of girls sports.

The Quilcene School District in Washington voted 3-2 to keep sports competition based on athletes' birth gender.

The ruling defies a policy by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA), enacted in 2007, that allows transgender students to participate based on their gender identity.

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According to Fox 13, board member Ron Frantz said "Title IX is the law," and sports should be kept based on birth gender.

But another member, Vivian Kuehl, said it is "immoral" to keep transgender females out of girls and women's sports, according to The Seattle Times.

The vote was taken May 7. The state's governor, Bob Ferguson, defeated Republican nominee Dave Reichert in November. The state has not had a Republican governor since John Spellman, from 1981 to 1985.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February to keep biological boys out of girls and women's sports, but Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal said the order defies state law.

"State law prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity, and we will not back down from that," Reykdal said at the time.

Later that month, Reykdal said it would be "inaccurate" to say there are only two genders.

Bills that would prohibit transgender athletes from participating in girls and women's sports have been introduced in the state but have not passed.

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However, the issue became so concerning for residents that the WIAA announced a proposal in December to create a separate open division for transgender athletes to compete in. 

In May, a trans athlete competed in a girls cross-country championship and won. 

The athlete won the 400-meter heat race in the girls division with a time of 55.59 seconds. The second-place runner finished in 58.83 seconds. In the finals, the trans athlete won with a time of 55.75 seconds, a full second ahead of the second-place runner who finished in 56.75.

In February, a civil rights complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights on behalf of a teenage girl in Washington state who was allegedly punished for refusing to play a basketball game against a trans athlete. 

The complaint said the Tumwater School District in Washington is investigating 15-year-old Frances Staudt for "misgendering" the opponent and violating the district's policies against bullying and harassment. 

Several other states have defied Trump's executive order on the issue, resulting in Maine temporarily losing federal funding.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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NFL star Aaron Rodgers became one of the highest-profile athletes to speak out against allowing biologically male transgender athletes to compete in women's sports Wednesday. 

During an interview with Joe Rogan, Rodgers made his stance on the issue clear, calling the transgender movement "anti-woman."

"The trans woman movement is actually anti-woman," Rodgers told "The Joe Rogan Experience." 

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Rodgers then clarified the belief applies mainly in sports. 

"That's what I mean — sports. You're not seeing trans men dominating anything. It's because there's a biological difference."

Rodgers is an unsigned free agent after departing the New York Jets after two seasons. The 41-year-old former MVP has been a lightning rod of controversy in the media for expressing conservative opinions during podcast appearances the last four years.

The quarterback was invited to become the running mate of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during Kennedy's independent presidential campaign in 2024. 

Now, Rodgers joins fellow former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre and wide receiver Donald Driver in taking a vocal stance against allowing trans athletes to compete in women's sports. Favre has been outspoken about the topic since 2021. 

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Rodgers spoke out at a critical time in the ongoing debate over the issue. President Donald Trump signed an executive order mandating that institutions across the country allow only biological females to compete in women's and girls athletics. 

However, many Democrat-run states have openly defied Trump's order, prompting both internal and federal backlash. The U.S. Department of Education is investigating multiple states' high school sports leagues for potential Title IX violations, and the Department of Justice is engaged in legal battles with Maine and Minnesota over the issue. 

A January New York Times/Ipsos survey found the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don't think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women's sports. 

"Thinking about transgender female athletes — meaning athletes who were male at birth but who currently identify as female — do you think they should or should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports?" the survey asked. 

Of the 2,128 respondents who participated, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women's sports. 

Of the 1,025 respondents who identified as Democrats or leaning Democrat, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women. 

Among 1,022 Republicans, that number was 94%. 

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Maine state representative Laurel Libby is allowed to vote for her constituents after three months of being censured, thanks to a 7-2 Supreme Court decision Tuesday. 

After the state's Democrat majority voted to strip Libby of her voting rights in February for making a social media post that called out a biologically trans athlete who won a girls' pole vault competition, she fought a legal battle to overturn it all the way up to the Supreme Court. And it paid off with Tuesday's decision.

Libby called the battle a 'civil rights' case in an interview with Fox News Digital.

"I most certainly do believe this is a civil rights issue for Maine girls and girls across the country who are being sidelines by biological males," Libby said, later adding that the censure "was political retaliation from start to finish," over her vocal stance on trans athlete inclusion. 

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Libby believes the ruling is essential in order to protect Americans who want to speak out against allowing trans athletes in girls' and women's sports while the country is in a pivotal standoff over the issue. 

"Thankfully the Supreme Court saw the merits and the high stakes with this case, and really what was on the line not just for just me, my constituents in Maine, but really the entire country if this was upheld… No one should ever be silenced for speaking up on behalf of our girls," Libby said. 

"Now we have a ruling from the Supreme Court that says no one can be silenced for speaking the truth even if it's an unpopular truth. So I hope we will be seeing more folks speaking up on behalf of women and girls and their rights."

The main defendant in Libby's lawsuit, Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, who passed the censure against Libby on Feb. 15, has vowed to restore Libby's voting rights to comply with the Supreme Court ruling. 

"In accordance with the Supreme Court’s injunction pending appeal, Representative Libby’s ability to vote on the floor of the House has been restored until the current appeal process runs its course," Fecteau told Fox News Digital. "The Clerk of the House, whom the injunction is against, has already complied with this court ruling. We look forward to continuing with the important work Maine people expect of us."

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that requires states only allow females to compete, but multiple Democrat-run states, including Maine, have defied the order and continued to enable trans inclusion. 

The U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Pam Bondi have even filed their own separate lawsuit against the state of Maine for continuing to defy the order. 

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Libby has been a central figure in the conservative pushback against Democrat policies that enable trans inclusion in girls' sports in Maine. In addition to her lawsuit against Fecteau, Libby has been repeatedly critical of Mills for her refusal to comply with Trump. 

"Ryan Fecteau and Janet Mills have been ruling our state for the last six years with an iron fist regardless of the will of Maine people," Libby said. "This sends a message that they can not continue to operate outside of the constitution and ignore the will of Maine people any longer." 

A survey by the American Parents Coalition found that out of about 600 registered Maine voters, 63% said that school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed it is "only fair to restrict women’s sports to biological women."

Many Maine residents have even entire school districts have stood up against Mills' policies alongside Libby. Maine's school districts RSU No. 24 and MSAD No. 70 have each passed their own localized resolutions to keep girls' spots for female students only. There have also been three large-scale protests against the current policies in the state's capital city Augusta since February. 

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And Libby has had the support of the federal government along the way. 

Just days before the decision, the DOJ filed an amicus brief on Libby's behalf to the Supreme Court, and Bondi spoke out in support of the embattled lawmaker to Fox News Digital. 

"I am so thankful for Attorney General Pam Bondi's response," Libby said. 

However, Libby's legal battle is not done yet. 

The Supreme Court decision has granted her back her right to vote on the state house floor, but she still does not have the right to speak. Libby's case will now go back to the First Circuit Court of Appeals for oral arguments on June 5, as she will look to regain her voting rights.

Additionally, Libby was not able to vote on several bills in the state legislature in the last three months during her censure. These included the state's bi-annual budget vote and a bill to codify the Maine Human Rights Act, which protects trans inclusion in girls' sports, into the state's constitution. 

Libby said she believes the records should be reflected to include her vote on those bills as well, but does not yet know if she will be actively seeking to have those records changed legally yet. 

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