Women's fencer who knelt in protest of trans athlete reacts to USA Fencing reversal of controversial policies
SPECIAL: Stephanie Turner, the fencing of women, has passed for more than two months since it became viral after being punished by the US fencing for a transgender protest of a trans opponent.
And after the incident, after a nine -week enormous public and federal examination against US fencing, the organization changed two of its most controversial policies last weekend.
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The Board of Directors of the organization changed its rule to priority states with the laws that are considered to be “harmful” to the LGBTQ population and a rule that does not guarantee the playing of the national anthem before each event.
Turner reacted to USA Fencing’s latest policy changes in a special statement to Fox News Digital.
“Fencing fencing into the hands of non -patriotic oppressors who put uncertain politics before introducing sports throughout the country.
“He wonders whether these policies have been implemented to punish conservatives and red states. A shock under the leadership of Fencing and the control of social media and online platforms.”
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In late March, Turner moved away from competing in the US fencing after a 12 -month probation for refusing to confront the trans athlete Redmond Sullivan at Cherry Blossom in Maryland.
However, the sprinkling of the discussion immediately had an impact on the establishment and policies.
The US announced that it was preparing to change the policy of compliance with gender in late April. The proposed updated policy enables the female category to “only be open to athletes of women’s sex”. Men’s category “otherwise it will be open to all other athletes that are competing.”
However, this new policy was not officially implemented.
The event, which includes Turner, also launched a title IX investigation by President Donald Trump’s administration and a congress hearing in May.
US fencing chair Damien Lehfeldt grilled by Republican MPs. Ministry of State Efficiency (Doge) sub -committee “unfair game: keeping men from women’s sports” hearing on May 7.
After the hearing, Turner told Fox News Digital to push himself and his platform to resign among key leadership figures in US fencing.
Turner, “I will force people to resign, to be honest. Some people, especially harassment and relevant women, mothers and girls who want to see for comments that want to humiliate.” He said.
The policy of prioritizing states with pro-LGBTq laws of the organization was a certain point of view during the hearing by the R-GA, the representative of the Dogor sub-committee, the President of the Dogor Sub-Committee.
“For example, while choosing sites for national fencing activities, the board of directors of the board of directors, LGBTQ rights and abortion laws and policies to avoid the states. He said. “This prefers a large number of blue states and damages a large number of red situations. So, politically stable winners and losers create – but it has nothing to do with fencing.”
The previous host site policy placed a series of states on the “permission” list Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas.
Among the states on the “Avoid if possible” list are Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Missouri, School Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virgininia.
The organization now claims that next year will be an event in many of these states.
“We have combined several overlapping documents on cost, security and convenience of travel – every proposal – independent of the state – to a policy that scored
Usa Fencing also made a statement to Fox News Digital about the new starter policy.
“There is an anthem Always It was played at the beginning of every national tournament. The Board has simply wrote the application for a long time in politics and added that it will be played during any US holiday during an event such as independence day in our next summer citizens. ”
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