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EXCLUSIVE: More than two months have passed since Women’s Fence Stephanie Turner became viral after being punished by the United States fence to kneel in protest against a trans opponent.
And after nine weeks of huge public and federal control against the fence of the United States in the wake of the incident, the organization changed two of its most controversial policies last weekend.
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The organization’s board of directors changed its rule to de-prioritized states with laws considered “harmful” to the LGBTQ population and a rule that did not guarantee the National song were played before any event.
Turner responded to the US hencing’s recent political changes to an exclusive statement to Pakinomist Digital.
“The United States fence has fallen into the hands of unpatriotic tyrants who put unclear politics ahead of promoting the sport across the country. Whether to play the national anthem or not should never have been in doubt. And exclusively states from the national tournament selection process because of their abortion and LHBT policies are ridiculous and have anything to do with fencing.”
“It makes me wonder if these policies were introduced to punish conservatives and red states. There must be a shaking in the US Hencing’s leadership and a revision of their social media and online platforms.”
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The American Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) (C) Speaks to Stephanie Turner (L), a fence that refused to compete against a transgender athlete, and Payton McNabb (R), a former North Carolina High School Volleyball player injured by a transgender opponent during Washington, DC (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Turner stepped away from competing in US fence after receiving a 12-month probationary period to refuse to meet Trans-Athlet Redmond Sullivan at the Cherry Blossom Open in Maryland at the end of March.
But the fell of controversy had an impact on the organization and its policies immediately.
US fence announced in late April that it is preparing to change its gender eligibility policy. The proposed updated policy ensures that the women’s category “will only be open to athletes of the female gender.” The category of the gentlemen “will be open to all other athletes who are otherwise eligible for competition.”
However, the new policy has not officially been in place.
The incident involving Turner also received a title IX investigation from President Donald Trump’s administration and a congressional hearing in May.
US fence stool Damien Lehfeldt was grilled by Republican lawmakers by Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Under Committee’s “InJourly Play: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” -hearing on May 7th.
After the hearing, Turner Pakinomist told Digital that she would devote herself and her platform to push for the resignation among the most important leadership figures in the United States fence.
“I want to push for people to resign, to be honest. I want to see some people resign from the comments they have made, especially in public, those who harass and intended to humiliate affected women, mothers and daughters,” Turner said.
The organization’s policy of prioritizing states with Pro-LGBTQ-Love was a specific point with control during the consultation of DODE Sub-Committee Chair Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA.
“When choosing sites for its national fence events, for example, board policy is to avoid states whose laws and policies on LGBTQ rights and abortion are against. It uses ‘equality cards’ to determine which states for blacklist from its competitions and which ones to favor,” Greene said. “This ends up favoring a lot of blue states and harming a lot of red. So it creates politically deciding winners and losers – but it has absolutely nothing to do with fences.”
The previous policy for the host site placed a number of states on the “Not allowed” list was Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas.
The states on the list “Avoid where possible”, included Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississip North Dakota, Oklaha, Oklaha Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.
The organization now claims that it will have events in several of these states in the next year.
“We merged several overlapping documents in a policy that scores each bid – regardless of the state – on costs, security and travel contract. Using this box, next season’s national events will span nine states, including Texas, Missouri, Florida, Utah, Ohio, Virginia, Oregon, Tennessee and Nevada,” Read a statement to Pakinomist Digital.
The US Fence has also made a statement to Pakinomist Digital, which addresses the new hymn policy.
“Anthem has always been played at the start of each national tournament. The board simply wrote that prolonged practice in politics and added that it will also be played on any American holiday that arises during an event, such as the Day of Independence, which falls under our upcoming summer stocks, “the statement reads.
