Tennis legend Martina Navratilova reacts as Oregon HS girls refuse to share podium with trans athlete

Oregon high school girls' track and field athletes Reese Eckard and Alexa Anderson stepped down from the high jump medal podium and turned the other way at the state championships on Saturday night, as a trans athlete shared the podium.

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova reacted to two Oregon high school athletes who refused to stand with a transgender athlete following the girls' high jump state championships on Saturday.

Reese Eckard, of Sherwood High School, and Alexa Anderson, of Tigard High School, stepped down from the podium and refused to share the spot with the transgender athlete who finished in fifth place. Anderson finished in third and Eckard in fourth.

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Oregon girls' track and field athletes Reese Eckard and Alexa Anderson refuse to stand on a medal podium next to a trans opponent. (Courtesy of America First Policy Institute)

Footage obtained by Fox News Digital showed an official confronting Eckard and Anderson.

"Women and girls are punished no matter what they do in this misogynistic world…" Navratilova wrote on X.

She added that "Feminists never asked for this. At least not the great majority of us… never."

Navratilova has been a major voice in the effort to protect women’s sports. She has been particularly critical of Democrats who have failed to step up to the plate, with their Republican colleagues, to help pass legislation to prohibit males from competing in girls’ and women’s sports.

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Tennis legend Martina Navratilova during the trophy presentations, which she presented along with Chris Evert after the Women's Singles Final on Court