Overview
- At last weekend’s Oregon girls’ high jump championships, Reese Eckard and Alexa Anderson stepped down from the podium rather than stand alongside the transgender athlete who placed fifth
- On X, Martina Navratilova condemned the incident as evidence of misogyny in sports and asserted that most feminists never supported excluding transgender women
- Navratilova blamed male policymakers for advancing transgender inclusion in female competitions and criticized Democratic lawmakers for killing the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act
- President Trump signed a “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order in February, a measure Democrats have declined to enact or bolster through legislation
- An NBC News–cited poll indicates about 72% of Gen Z men and 56% of Gen Z women oppose allowing transgender women to compete in female sports