Just before a match against a transgender opponent, the fencer Stephanie Turner took one knee and depended on his match.
Before a fight at the Cherry Blossom Open in Maryland this weekend, Turner, 31, decided not to compete Trans athlete Redmond Sullivan.
It was a movement supported by Riley Gaines, calling Turner a “heroine”.
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The female female Stephanie Turner kneels protesting in front of the transgender athlete Redmond Sullivan (Gracefulness of icons)
“Isn’t it incredible to see how it can be explained?
“It was during an Olympic female junior qualification event. So it’s really a big problem. It is not scrubs. This is the ultimate in their sport at this stage. I congratulate it for taking this measure. It is not easy to do, ultimately to boycott. But it is the most effective way to say enough.”
Gaines, which swam four years at the University of Kentucky, including against Lia Thomas de Penn, then shot the NCAA.
“The NCAA continued to deceive the American people, and they deceived President Trump in this area.
Fencer Stephanie Turner kneels in front of an American fencing manager (Gracefulness of icons)
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“When they use the word inclusion, what they really mean is exclusion. And the people they exclude are women.”
Turner made her decision to lose the day before the event when she checked the competition pools and saw that she would face Sullivan, whom she had read in an article last year.
“I knew what I had to do because the American fences had not listened to the objections of the women concerning [its gender eligibility policy]”Said Turner.” I took a knee immediately at that time. Redmond had the impression that I was going to start fencing. So when I kicked the referee, and I said: “I am sorry, I can’t do that. I am a woman, and she is a man. And she is a female tournament. And I will not close this individual. ‘”
A few minutes later, the referees expressed a black card, the most serious penalty of sport, leading to its ejection of the tournament.
Fencer Stephanie Turner kneels before a fencing manager in the United States (Gracefulness of icons)
A spokesperson for fencing in the United States said that PK Press Club Digital Turner had not been penalized for his position against the inclusion trans. Instead, she was punished for refusing to compete.
