Transgender athlete Lia Rose wins girls event in Oregon... two years after finishing LAST against boys

A biologic antheral won a girls varsity precocious leap lawsuit successful Oregon this week, astir 2 years aft finishing past successful a boys equivalent. 

Lia Rose, who was calved Zachary, dominated the contention astatine the Portland Interscholastic League Varsity lawsuit connected Wednesday, according to blimpish writer David Medina.

Rose, a elder astatine Ida B. Wells High School, won with a tallness of 4-foot 8-inches and bushed her nearest rival Addyson Skyles by a immense 2 inches. That effort was a idiosyncratic grounds for Rose.

However, erstwhile competing against boys successful May 2023, she finished 11th retired of 11 successful the inferior varsity boys equivalent. 

According to athletic.net, Rose jumped 4-foot 6-inches which was a ft little than the victor of the antheral competition. 

Athletic records amusement Zachary competed successful the boys class passim 2023 and continued to bash truthful aft becoming Lia. 

However, successful 2025, Lia switched to competing successful the girls category.

Zachary besides competed arsenic a sophomore successful way and erstwhile finished 2nd successful a inferior varsity 3,000m race.

A spokesperson from Portland Public Schools was incapable to corroborate oregon contradict that Lia and Zachary are the aforesaid person, citing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act 'to support pupil privacy.' 

It comes little than 2 weeks aft an Oregon precocious schoolhouse caused caller contention aft again allowing a transgender jock to predominate their rivals successful a women's way competition.

At the 2024 6A-1 Portland Interscholastic League Championship, 10th-grader Aayden Gallagher won some the girl's 200m and 400m races for McDaniel High School successful Portland.

Now, a twelvemonth on, cameras caught Gallagher - present going by Ada - racing wide erstwhile more. She won the 200m by much than 1.5 seconds and the 400m by astir 10 seconds.

Footage of the races appeared connected societal media, sparking fury among the likes of erstwhile swimmer Riley Gaines. 

'Another day, different lad dominating successful girl's sports,' Gaines wrote connected X. 'Aayden 'Ada' Gallagher acceptable a play grounds and bushed the fastest miss by implicit 7 seconds...  does helium person nary shame? Do his PARENTS person nary shame?'

'This was successful Oregon. Ahem, @AGPamBondi,' Gaines added, tagging Donald Trump's lawyer wide successful the post.

After returning to the White House for a 2nd term, Trump signed an enforcement order, entitled 'Keeping Men retired of Women's Sports'.

'In caller years, galore acquisition institutions and diversion associations person allowed men to vie successful women's sports,' the bid says. 'This is demeaning, unfair, and unsafe to women and girls, and denies women and girls the adjacent accidental to enactment and excel successful competitory sports.'

According to an NCSA assemblage recruiting profile, Gallagher - who is listed arsenic 5ft 10ins astatine 155lbs - writes: 'I'm capable to proceed moving erstwhile thousands of radical privation for maine to halt and uncertainty my integrity.'

Meanwhile, the Oregon School Activities Association's argumentation connected 'gender individuality participation' reads: 'The OSAA endeavors to let students to enactment for the diversion oregon enactment programme of their consistently asserted sex individuality portion providing a just and harmless situation for each students.' 

It continues: 'Rules specified arsenic this 1 promotes harmony and just contention among subordinate schools by maintaining equality of eligibility and summation the fig of students who volition person an accidental to enactment successful interscholastic activities.'