The Stephanie Turner female fool became a family name during the night among activists for women’s rights in sports.
A viral video of Turner kneeling to protest a transgender opponent lit more debate about transgender inclusion in women’s sports, especially fences.
“Probably, at least for the moment, it will destroy my life,” Turner told Pak Gazette Digital. “It’s very difficult for me to do this.”
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His decision was promoted by his opposition to compete against biological men.
“This is a serious problem that is happening within all sports, and must be addressed. There is a difference between men and women,” Turner said. “It is a civil rights movement for women and girls, and prioritize the security and rights and protection of women and girls on trans identified men.”
His belief even defeated his political loyalty of a lifetime.
Turner, a democrat registered for a long time that he broke the party for the most recent elections, says that it is now a “new republican conservative.”
She changed parties on the theme of transgender athletes in women’s and female sports.
“A small group of people has a much larger athlete base for extremist liberal points,” Turner said.
How did he get to this point?
She comes from a liberal background
The Stephanie Turner feet is kneeling in front of a Fencing official from the United States. (Courtesy of the icons)
Turner was born and grew up in Washington DC, and now lives in Deep Blue Montgomery, Maryland.
Over the years, he has been involved in a group of nearby friends, which includes other coats. It also includes multiple members of the LGBT community.
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“They didn’t know that I had this opinion about transgender women in women’s sports. And one of them was one of my very good friends in the [fencing] club. It is in the LGBT community, and many of my friends are also in the LGBT community. And I don’t want you to get angry with me for this. I love you on a personal level.
“I don’t want them to think that I somehow hate them. And I don’t want to lose them as friends.”
But Turner also feels that he cannot have legitimate discussions with some people on the subject.
“They lie and say that estrogen can make a man a woman also to the point where you cannot notice the difference, and simply becomes a crazy argument.”
She began to fence at the university and gradually avoided Trans competitors.
Turner, 31, ventured into a competitive fencing 12 years ago at age 19. He joined the club of the University of Maryland and has stayed with her since then. He later described to compete in the Fencing of the USA.
“I compromise a lot of time and money for this,” said Turner, citing travel, equipment and registration expenses.
The official website of the Turner fencing tracker shows 21 podiums, including a gold medal in female aluminum at an event called The Trick or Roc Roc on August 18 in Edison, New Jersey.
Stephanie Turner (Courtesy of Sophie Turner; Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
But he reached a point in his career when he had to be aware of the official gender eligibility policy of the Fencing of the United States.
The official policy allows transgenderos to compete in the category of women at the Junior and Senior level after completing a calendar of testosterone suppression treatment. A hormonal therapy test that meets before the competition must be provided.
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USA FENCING has a policy announced in November 2022 to give preference when selecting host cities for national tournaments to states without laws that “damage members of LGBTQ communities” and states that do not “have laws that undermine women’s reproductive health.”
“In the fencing, personally, I see it quite frequently,” Turner said. “I have witnessed transgender fence in female tournaments and tournaments for girls in different age categories, specifically Y-14 (the youngest age group).”
Turner had a previous experience avoiding a trans opponent in the summer of 2013. He saw reports from a trans athlete who had previously known as a biological male water, with another name. When Turner saw that the athlete appeared as a competitor in the summer nationals of that year, he decided not to go.
“I never registered because I knew I was going to be there,” Turner said. “In previous years, when I knew that the transgender festors were present, I simply did not register.”
She ended up facing a Trans athlete last weekend and decided to do something different
Turner always made sure to register for events after investigating them for trans athletes.
But what he could not foresee was one of them registering after she did.
That happened for the first time last weekend for an event of the AI Division called Cherry Blossom Open in his Alma Mater, the University of Maryland. Redmond Sullivan, who previously competed in the male division, according to Fencing Tracker, was registered and placed on the same support as Turner.
She only learned this at 10:30 pm at night before her confrontation with Sullivan.
At that time, I was considering a different approach to handle the situation considering how frequent the trans inclusion was becoming.
“I had contemplated in the future that I wanted to avoid not registering for events, just because a transgender person was there, because it could be only each of my events that have a transgender person,” Turner said.
“Then, I thought: ‘You know what, I’m just going to give it to God. If this person appears in my event, and they are in my strip, then I will roll, and that would be the will of God.”
But Turner wanted to take another step, a step that he knew could “destroy his life”, but he did it anyway.
A few minutes before taking the strip to kneel against Sullivan, he went to one of his closest friends in the club for a favor.
“I said: ‘I’m about to do something, and I want him to films it. I’m really nervous about that, and this is your last chance to leave if you want,’ because I didn’t know what the reaction was going to be,” Turner said.
Her friend agreed to film the kneeling, recording a scene that would be witnessed worldwide.
Then, Turner received a black card, disqualified from the event and escort so fast that he could not tell his team classmates, coaches or any other person.
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Turner didn’t want this role. She admits to be a private person without any social networks that “enjoy anonymity.”
“I expected someone else to appear or that the Board of Directors had a change of opinion,” Turner said.
An organization of non -profit fences wrote an open letter to the members of the US Board of Fencing.
“Leaving politics aside, it is a reasonable request to form a working group to make a deeper immersion on this issue in fencing and create a safe space where the voices of all women are heard without ridicule and abuse,” said the letter.
But nothing was done.
Turner is the last combatant in the current cultural war on the theme of trans athletes in women’s sport. He has conducted a televised interview in Pak Gazette Channel, his story has been covered by multiple media and even appears in a commercial.
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For her, everything is worth it if it means holding institutions such as the Fencing of the United States and the politicians who have continued allowing responsible trans inclusion.
“It is a fire test for common sense in itself a politician can lie to the face to fulfill common culture,” Turner said.
“You have to do something.”
USA FENING provided a statement to Pak Gazette Digital by directing the incident.
“USA FENCING promulgated our current transgender and non -binary athlete policy in 2023. The policy was designed to expand access to the sport of the fence and create inclusive and safe spaces. Politics is based on the principle that everyone should have the ability to participate in sports and was based on the available investigation of the day,” the statement said.
“We respect the views on all sides and encourage our members to continue sharing them with us as the matter evolves. It is important that the fencing community participates in this dialogue, but we hope that this conversation will be carried out respectfully, either in our tournaments or in online spaces. The way of progress is a respectful discussion based on evidence.”
A US spokesman. Uu. He also told Pak Gazette Digital Turner was not penalized for his position against trans inclusion, but simply for refusing to the fence.
“In the case of Stephanie Turner, his disqualification was not related to any personal statement, but was simply the direct result of his decision to refuse to fence an eligible opponent, which the Fiesto governs clearly,” said the spokesman.
“According to the FIE technical rules (International Federation of Velimas), specifically article T.113, a feator is not allowed to refuse to fence another fencing duly entered for any reason. According to these rules, such rejection results in disqualification and the corresponding sanctions. This policy exists to maintain the standards of fair competition and preserve the integrity of the sport.”
