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EXCLUSIVE: More than two months have passed since the female female Stephanie Turner became viral after being punished by fencing in the United States to kneel to protest a trans opponent.
And after nine weeks of immense public and federal examination against fencing in the United States in the aftermath of the incident, the organization changed two of its most controversial policies last weekend.
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The organization’s board of directors has changed its rule into deraised states with laws deemed “harmful” to the LGBTQ population and a rule that does not guarantee the national anthem to be played before each event.
Turner reacted to the recent changes in USA Fencing policy in an exclusive declaration to PK Press Club Digital.
“The end of the United States fell into the hands of antipatriotic tyrants that have put an obscure policy before the promotion of sport across the country. Whether to play the national anthem or not should never have been in question. And exclude the states from the national tournament selection process because of their abortion and their LGBT policies is fun and has nothing to do with the fence,” said Turner.
“This makes me ask me if these policies have been put in place to punish the conservatives and the red states. There must be a reshuffle in the leadership of fencing in the United States and an audit of their social networks and their online platforms.”
Who is Stephanie Turner? Fencer of women who knelt to protest against the trans adversary and inflamed the global conscience
The American representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) (C) speaks to Stephanie Turner (L), a shooter who refused to compete with a transgender athlete, and Payton McNabb (R), a former volleyball player from Caroline du Nord who was injured by a transgender opponent during the efficiency of the department (DOGE). Capitol on May 7, 2025 in Washington, DC (Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images)
Turner moved away from competition in American fences after receiving 12 -month probation for refusing to face the Trans Redmond Sullivan athlete at the Cherry Blossom Open in Maryland at the end of March.
But the fallout from the controversy had an impact on the organization and its policies immediately.
USA Fencing announced at the end of April that it was preparing to change its eligibility policy between the sexes. The proposed update policy ensures that the female category “will be open exclusively to female athletes”. The male category “will be open to all other athletes who are otherwise eligible for competition”.
However, this new policy has not been officially implemented.
The incident involving Turner also caused an investigation into the title IX of the administration of President Donald Trump and a conference audience in May.
The president of American fencing Damien Lehfeldt was toasted by the republican legislators of the Government Department of Effectiveness (DOGE) “Unfinmerical Play of the subcommittee: Keep men out of female sports” on May 7.
After the hearing, Turner told PK Press Club Digital that she would devote herself and her platform to put pressure for resignations among the main leadership figures in fencing in the United States.
“I’m going to put pressure for people to resign, to be honest. I would like to see some people resign for the comments they made, especially publicly, who harass and supposed to humiliate the women, mothers and girls concerned,” said Turner.
The organization’s policy to prioritize states with pro-LGBTQ laws was a particular point of control during the audience by the president of the Doge’s subcommittee, the representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA.
“By selecting sites for its national fencing events, for example, the policy of the board of directors is to avoid states whose laws and policies on LGBTQ rights and the abortion it is opposed. He uses” equality cards “to determine what states of the black list of his competitions and of which to favor,” said Greene. “This ends up promoting many blue states and harm to many red states. So, this creates winners and politically determined losers – but that has absolutely nothing to do with fencing. ”
The previous policy of the host’s site has placed a certain number of states on the “do not auther” list was Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tenness and Texas.
States on its list “avoid as much as possible” included Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Carolina, Dakota of the North, Ohio, Utah, Virginia-Western, Wyoming, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana Kentucky, South, Mississippi, Missouri, Dakota of the North, Oklahoma, South, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South, Mississippi, Missouri, Dakota of the North, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Virginie-Western.
The organization now claims to have events in several of these states in the next year.
“We have merged several documents which overlap into a single policy that marks each offer – whatever the state – on the cost, security and convenience of the trip. Using this section, the national events of next season are spread out on nine states, including Texas, Missouri, Florida, Utah, Ohio, Virginia, Oregon, Le Tennesee and Nevada, Declaration to PK Press Club Digital.
USA Fencing also provided a statement to PK Press Club Digital sending the new Hymn policy.
“Hymn has always been played at the start of each national tournament. The board of directors has simply written this longtime practice in politics and added that it will also be played at any American party that occurs during an event, such as Independence Day, which falls during our next summer nationals, “the statement said.
