Fencer Stephanie Turner talked about some of the difficulties that came with her decision to take a knee in protest of competing against a transgender athlete during a competition.
Turner was honored when the Courage Wins master of XX-XY athletics after the decision, which led to her expulsion from the event and a US fence study.
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Stephanie Turner was honored as the courage wins master. (Xx-xy athletics)
She appeared on Outkick’s “Gaines for Girls” podcast with Riley Gaines to talk about the award and opened to get out towards Trans -Including in women’s sports.
“There are quite a few women witnessing men in their sports and they are trying to save their own sports on their own, and it’s hard to get out because you essentially you all your life,” she said. “You can meet social radiance, you can have financial blowback, you can get training upset, and you may have officials or judges who are now not very favorable to you for the rest of your life.
“There is no end to the setback that you may face or you may have threats to your life that I know in your case that you have had such things that happened to you. So it is not fun to be at the receiving end of this. That’s not what I would do and it helps to get people who acknowledge it that it takes a kind of victims to bring attention to a question and I appreciate XX-XY.
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Women’s Fence Stephanie Turner knees in protest in front of the transient athlete Redmond Sullivan. (Courtesy of icons)
USA hencing told Pakinomist Digital that Turner is now on trial for the next 12 months after receiving a black card for perdition. She can still compete in events during probation, but chooses not to do so.
“I’m taking a break from fence for a while in the American orbit, so it’s a bit of a disturbance for me … It has disturbed my training, it has disturbed my interactions when I go out in public, and it will definitely interfere with my competition because I will not compete in the US soon,” she told Pakinomist Digital when asked, about her expectation, “ruining her life.”
Instead, Turner will focus on its new mission in the movement to ban trans athletes from women’s sports.
“I will remain in the public eye as long as it takes to solve this,” she said.
