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USA Fencing announced Thursday that it was preparing to change its sexual eligibility policy, after a viral manifestation of the female female Stephanie Turner sparked a mass reaction and a federal intervention by protesting against a trans opponent.
The organization said that it was preparing to modify its current policies which allow biological men to compete with women and girls in the event that it is “forced” to change it.
“In the event that the United States’s closure is forced to modify its current position in accordance with supervisory organizations or federal legislation, the new policy declares that athletes in competition in the fencing tournaments of American fences must compete according to their biological sex,” said the announcement.
The proposed update policy ensures that the women’s category “will be open exclusively to female athletes”. The male category “will be open to all other athletes who are otherwise eligible for competition”.
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The change would come into force through the levels of competition sanctioned, in particular division I, IA, II, III, Junior, Cadet, Youth, Veteran and all the other categories.
If it is adopted, this policy only aims to guarantee the future compliance required by surveillance organizations. This policy does not reflect any change in our solid support for the right of each individual to identity, “said the announcement.
“We recognize that many people – in particular transgender and non -binary athletes and their supporters in the country’s fencing clubs – will be deeply affected if this policy takes effect.”
Turner spoke out against the organization and its change of rule prepared for PK Press Club Digital.
“Fencing in the United States claims to need an external authorization to follow the federal law which guarantees fair competition and equal opportunities for women. They know their current policy allowing men to take the national and global titles of women are unfair, but instead of taking responsibilities, they transmit the bar at USOPC, an ideologically captured organization,” said Turner.
“This results in a loose position without urgency for change. Admitting that politics is wrong but refusing to repair it, they insult women more. While we head to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, he has long passed for USFA and USOPC athletes to apply the policies that protect the category of women for female athletes and to stop.”
The organization underwent an immense global exam after a video of Turner on his knees to protest against the trans competitor of Redmon Sullivan at the opening of Cherryier, then to disqualify, became viral in early April.
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President of the subcommittee Doge Marjorie Taylor Greene announcement An audience relating to eligibility policies between the sexes of the organization which allow the male organic transgender athletes to participate in the female category.
And the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, had previously announced that the news formed Title IX surveys The team will probe the incident involving Turner and the competitor Trans Redmond Sullivan.
Meanwhile, Turner moves away from sport after being treated 12 months for refusing to face Sullivan.
USA Fencing confirmed to PK Press Club Digital that Turner is in probation for the next 12 months after receiving a black card for the package. It can always compete in events under probation, but chooses not to do it.
“I will take a break in fencing for a while in the American circuit, so it’s a bit of a disturbance for me … It disturbed my training, it disturbed my interactions when I released in public, and it certainly disturbed my competitors because I will not compete in the United States soon,” she told PK Press Club Digital.
The organization first promulgated its current trans-inclusion policy in 2023. It allows transgender athletes to participate in the female category at the junior and senior level after having finished a calendar year of testosterone suppression treatment. Proof of compliant hormone therapy must be provided before competition, but the organization has taken other measures to prioritize its trans competitors.
In November 2022, he announced a policy Prefer during the selection of host cities for national tournaments to laws without laws which “harm members of LGBTQ communities” and to states which do not have “laws undermining the reproductive health of women”.
This policy came into force during the 2023 season, the same year, it changed its gender policy. He then released a states list that he intended to “avoid as much as possible” and the states that he would not allow major events to be organized.
In December, the non -profit organization of fair closure wrote an open letter to Escorification of the United States The members of the Board of Directors, urging the reassessment of its position on several questions, in particular transgender inclusion.
Days later, however, Board members voted against Several requests to approve a fully female working group to reassess and revise the current transgender policy, during a vote of 8-3. Now, after having taken the seat of women prints in search of protection against trans inclusion, American fences are with global controversy after the viral protest of Turner.
