The same Oregon High School, which fired fire last year for allowing trans athletes to compete with girls, continues to blow the competition a year later.
Running as a 10th grader at McDaniel High School in Portland, Ada Gallagher finished first in the 200m and 400m races at the 2024 6A-1 Portland Interscholastic League Championship.
Now in 11th grade, Gallagher has returned to the track for the Scholastic League tournament between Portland on his home track. He blew the competition out, especially at 400m, earning a finish that was more than seven seconds better than the rest of the field.
Gallagher finished at 57.62 in the 400m, while Franklin High School's Kinnary Soup Hunton finished second at 1:05.72.
Gallagher's teammate Quinnan Schaefer was behind Soup Hanton at 1:07.13.
In the 200m race, Gallagher finished first with 25.76, followed by teammate Addison Skulls at 27.31.
Gallagher's time was a season record.
When the race video began to circulate on social media, commenters began to talk about their work.
“The experience has to be very moraleful for those girls,” said one X user.
“… Looking back later, I'm much more furious, especially if I have my own kids,” another added, “All girls should start refusing to run and it's going to end soon.”
Oregon School Activities Associationthe Portland Interscholastic League governing body has a gender identity participation policy that “enables students to provide a fair and safe environment for all students while ensuring that they can participate in a consistently asserted gender identity athletic or activity program.”
“As with Rule 8.2 on Eligibility/Graduation Periods, such rules promote harmony and fair competition among member schools by maintaining equal eligibility and increasing the number of students who have the opportunity to participate in intergroup activities,” the rulebook adds.
President Donald Trump's Executive Order 14201as it is well known to “hold men out of women's sports,” it was signed to “protect female student athletes from being “in the female category that must be “taken or not dressed” in front of men.”
When Trump signed the order last month, Oregon Republicans were pleased, with House minority leader Christine Dorazan saying he would introduce a bill to rewrite policies in high school athletics.
“Women have fought, won and gained incredible benefits in doing so to respect and support themselves in sports. We must protect that progress and stand fair,” Dorazan said in a statement released on National Girls and Women's Day on Sports Day for each Oregon public broadcaster.
