Former high school track and field coach John Parks talks firing amid push for transgender athlete law change

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John Parks, a track and field coach in Oregon, said the school district overseeing Lake Oswego High School fired him earlier this month after he sent a letter to state officials concerning laws related to transgender athletes.

Parks recently made an appearance on OutKick's "Gaines for Girls" podcast, which is hosted by former collegiate swimmer, Riley Gaines.

Parks said the moments leading up to the women's 400-meter event were filled with high levels of stress for the athletes he coached and their parents. A biological male runner, who identified as a female, competed in the race.

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John Parks and Riley Gaines on OutKick's "Gaines for Girls Podcast." (OutKick)

"It caused great distress to them in the lead up to it," Parks told Gaines, an OutKick contributor and the director of the Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute. "Their parents were very concerned and had issues with…. but they [were] afraid to speak out in any way… they very much want to support all students and transgender students in every way. But, they just felt like it was putting them under an unfair stress to have to race in this kind of conditions where this trans athlete [had] just recently transitioned [and] was a bodybuilder before."

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Parks previously told KATU that he addressed two letters to a high-ranking official with the Oregon Student Activities Association.

He also sent letters to state Sen. Rob Wagner, including one last month after Oregon's state championships. In the letters, Parks argued that the state's laws, as currently constructed,