Female fencer Stephanie Turner, who refused to compete against a trans opponent, is stepping away from the sport after USA Fencing issued a 1-year probation punishment for her protest.
pic.twitter.com/pEDqhPq3FZ— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 16, 2025
Posted on 04/16/2025 9:51:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Female fencer Stephanie Turner said she will walk away from competing “for a while” after she was put on a 12-month probation by USA Fencing for refusing to compete against a trans-identifying male fencer in March.
Turner spoke to Fox News about the year-long probation and said because of all the attention she’s gotten from taking a knee against biological male Redmond Sullivan at the Cherry Blossom Open in Maryland she won’t be competing anytime soon in the United States.
“It has disrupted my interactions when I go out in public and it will certainly disrupt my competition because I won’t be competing in the United States anytime soon,” Turner said.
While the probation doesn’t prevent her from competing, Turner said she’ll be “taking a break from fencing for a while in the US circuit,” but will not remain silent about why trans-identifying males shouldn’t compete against women in female sports.
“I will remain in the public eye for as long as it takes to resolve this,” Turner told Fox News.
Female fencer Stephanie Turner, who refused to compete against a trans opponent, is stepping away from the sport after USA Fencing issued a 1-year probation punishment for her protest.
pic.twitter.com/pEDqhPq3FZ— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 16, 2025
She also reflected on other women like her who have been dealing with males competing in their sport and said “There’s no end to the backlash that you may face.”
“And it’s hard to come out because you essentially nuke your whole life,” Turner said.
“You can face social ostracism. You can have financial blowback,” she added. “You can have training disrupted. You could have officials or referees now not being very favorable toward you for the rest of your life.”
After the female fencer refused to compete against Sullivan and was given a black card in response, reports surfaced that the biological male was no longer on the women’s team, as previously reported.
“We are in full compliance with NCAA and NEC rules and regulations. The fencer is not a member of our fencing team,” Wagner College Spokesperson Jim Chiavelli said in a statement to silive.com about Sullivan.
It is unclear if Sullivan was removed from the team or voluntarily stepped down.
The statement from Wagner College comes after Turner went viral when she posted about being removed from the Maryland competition on March 30th. Turner took a knee against Sullivan, citing how unfair it was to compete against a man.
In response, USA Fencing released a statement about fostering an “inclusive, respectful community for everyone in our sport,” backing Sullivan’s participation on the women’s team.
“While we understand there are a range of perspectives, USA Fencing will continue to engage in respectful, research-based dialogue and review as policy evolves in the Olympic and Paralympic movement as well as domestic law,” the statement added. “Hate speech or targeted hate of any kind is not acceptable — online or in person.”
President Donald Trump previously signed an executive order banning biological men from competing in women’s sports.
She should have fought him with two swords, declaring she is “non-binary”, and sued the pants off them when they disqualified her.
Weird that liberals are now for violence by men against women!
What would women fans of late singer Helen Reddy have said, if they knew how all their societal wins had become conditional and sparse as in the present?
Maybe a long with burning those bras, they should have been burning a couple of pink hued jockstraps.
Not really. Leftists have been saying for decades that women are just as strong as men. Just as capable of being police, soldiers, even special forces.
In which case, it should make no difference if women compete against men.
If USA Fencing receives federal funds, they need to be cut off.
There is going to be a very successful lawsuit against U.S.A. Fencing.
,,, when will the time arrive to rule “female”, “male” and “hybrid”?
Redmond Sullivan is a man.
This IS a joke?
Wow.
What’re they gonna call it?
“The Furrie Follies?”
They don’t really believe that, but is about promoting a leftist wacko agenda.
How many times have we seen women like Harris fail and the first thing out of their mouths is misogyny
No one not even these fools actually believe men and women are equal
In all aspects.
Let them keep this narrative up, worked well in 2024….
The majority said they were OK with this at voting booths around the country.
women have no problem bossing their husband around, but this is okay with them...
smh...
Good idea but a semi auto Sig would be better and state the gun identifies as a sword.
“She should have fought him with two swords, declaring she is ‘non-binary’”
Or say that she identifies as ambidextrous and her pronouns are, “shish” and “kabob”.
They’ve been awfully quiet.
Sue them!
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