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USA FENING announced changes to two of his controversial policies after his board of directors voted on the amendments last Saturday. The organization has addressed changes in Pak Gazette Digital.
A change was a policy that discouraged accommodation events in states that were considered to have anti-LGBTQ laws, since the organization now intends to consider the same consideration to 50 states. The other change was a policy that did not require the national anthem to reproduce before certain events.
The Fencing of the USA declined to explain the decisions behind the new policies.
“It would be inappropriate for the staff to speculate on the personal motivations of the Volunteer Board of Directors of USA Fencing,” said a spokesman for the USA. UU., A Pak Gazette Digital.
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USA FENCING is already planning competitions in the states that he previously advised to avoid
Lee Kiefer, Lauren Scrungs, Maia Mei Weintraub and Jacqueline Dubrovich of the United States team celebrate their gold medals at the end of the final of the female aluminum team on the sixth day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Grand Palais on August 1, 2024, in Paris, France. (Image photo agency/Getty images)
The Fencing events of the USA. UU. Now they are planned that six of the states controlled by the Republicans who had stigmatized, according to a spokesman for the organization.
In fact, only three states that the organization did not advise avoiding the host of a national tournament next season.
“We merge several overlapping documents that obtain each offer, regardless of the State, on the cost, security and convenience of travel. Using this rubric, the national events of the next season will cover nine states, including Texas, Missouri, Florida, Utah, Ohio, Virginia, Oregon, Tennessee and Nevada,” said the spokesman.
The previous selection policy of the host site gave preference when selecting the 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.”
The states in the list of “not allowing” the organization were Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas.
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The States on its “Avoid Where Possible” List Included Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Louisiana, Louisiana, Louisiana, Louisian Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.
The previous policy became one of the most important critic points of the organization after the Faithmark Stephanie Turner lit a global reaction against the organization when he recorded a video of his kneeling in protest of a Trans opponent during a competition in Maryland at the end of March.
May 7, the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) “Unknown game: Keep men out of women’s sports” he saw Turner testify against the president of EE. UU. Damien Lehfeldt for their transgender eligibility policies. There, the representative of the President of the Subcommittee Dege, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of G-GA., Asked the organization for her host cities policy.
“When selecting sites for their national fencing events, for example, the Board’s policy is to avoid states whose laws and policies on LGBTQ rights and abortion oppose. Use ‘Equality Maps’ to determine which states for the blacklist of its competitions and which ones favor,” Greene said.
“This ends up favoring many blue states and damaging many reds. Therefore, it creates politically determined winners and losers, but it has absolutely nothing to do with fences. And it contradicts the legal duty of the fencing of the United States as a NGB to ‘develop interest and participation throughout the United States’ in the fence.”
Now, it will not be a problem for USA Fencing, since LGBTQ state policies seem not to play a rule to select host sites.
The national anthem must now play in each event.
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The new national hymn policy of the Board will enter into force in the summer nationals of 2025 and will be reviewed annually by the tournament committee. Previously, there were no rules that required the anthem to reproduce in any case. The organization states that the anthem has been played in each national tournament.
“The anthem has always played at the beginning of each national tournament. The Board simply wrote that the long -standing practice in politics and added that it will also be played at any party in the United States that occurs during an event, such as Independence Day, which falls during our next summer nationals,” said the spokesman for the new policy.
The initial announcement of USA Fencing said that the new policy “will provide a minimum consistent and respectful orientation to honor the flag and anthem in nine annual tournaments.”
In December, the EE. UU Board. He celebrated a vote Play the national anthem at the beginning of the tournaments before “all national NACs and championships”, but was voted against 8-2 with an abstention.
Anthem’s previous policy was also criticized by Greene at the Doge Audience on May 7.
“Recently, the Board even voted against playing national anthem in its events,” Green said.
Now the organization has encoded that the anthem will be reproduced in each event in the future. Even so, it may not be a permanent rule. The new National Hymn policy of the Board will enter into force in the summer nationals of 2025, but the tournament committee will review it annually.
