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The USA Fencing Minnesota division has announced its intention to sanction only mixed events in the future in response to new policies that prevent trans biologically male athletes from participating in women’s competitions.
USA Fencing has changed its policies to ensure that only biological women are able to participate in the female category last month after the entire American Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has updated its athlete security policy to suggest respect for the decree of the execution of President Donald Trump, the President of Sport “.
Now, the Minnesota USA fences division gets four to make sure that each event he sanction will allow biological men to compete with women in response. The announcement of the division criticized the new USA Fencing policy as “harmful”.
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“The Minnesota division wishes to confirm our commitment to inclusion and recognize the harmful effects of the new American closing policy as indicated by the USOPC guidelines,” the announcement began. “The recent changes in the United States’s fences policy, in accordance with the USOPC guidelines, have caused pain and confusion throughout the fences community.”
The announcement continued to emphasize that the division must follow the Minnesota Human Rights Act, which protects gender identity.
“We are currently looking for advice on how to go ahead without raping either [the USA Fencing policy or the Minnesota Human Rights act]. For this reason, only mixed events will be punished at the moment, “said the announcement.
Lauren Scruggs, on the right, rivals Alice Volpi during the gold medal match of the aluminum paper team at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (Katie Goodale-USA today Sports)
“Trans and non -binary titles belong here, and we see you.”
PK Press Club Digital contacted USA Fencing for an answer.
Follow -up of sports controversies at the TRANS athlete high school while trembling the nation in the past year
The American fences were undoubtedly the director of the USOPC most examined in its controversy chain in 2025.
USA Fencing has been under a national microscope for its gender eligibility policy since April 2, when images of the female female Stephanie Turner on their knees to protest a trans opponent during a competition in Maryland have become viral. Turner was disqualified and gave a black card for his refusal to face the Trans opponent, which caused a mass buttress against American fences.
The controversy was then the subject of a federal hearing on May 7. Government Department of Effectiveness (DOGE) “Unfinmerical Play of the subcommittee: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” saw Turner testify against the president of the American fencing Damien Lehfeldt.
In early June, the United States board of directors voted to modify its previous policy Prioritized states With LGBTQ convivial laws for host sites for competitions and a policy that may have prevented the national anthem during certain events. These two policies were also widely criticized in the aftermath of Turner’s viral protest.
Then, the following week, two members of the United States’s fences board of directors brought in legal action against the other six members of the large scale, alleging that Lehfeldt made false declarations at the congress at the hearing of May 7. The complainants, Andrey Geva and Abdel Salem, each have long links with sport and organization, previously leading or competition for the American team.
USA Fencing responded to the trial in a statement to PK Press Club Digital, claiming that “this derivative trial distorts our organization, and we will vigorously defend the organization in court; any attempt to denigrate will be treated in an appropriate manner”.
Meanwhile, Minnesota was one of the country’s most resistant states to Trump’s executive order to protect female sports.
The United States Ministry of Health and Social Services and the Ministry of Education have launched investigations into the title IX on the State for its policies which allow trans athletes in female and girls sports. The DOE investigation was raised to the Federal Investigation Team on title IX, which operates in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice on June 12.
The state is also engaged in a pair of prosecution on the issue, one deposited by the Attorney General Keith Ellison against the Trump administration, and another tabled by three anonymous softball players against Ellison and the state of having to compete with a transgender launcher during the 2025 season.
