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Fencer Stephanie Turner kneels to a fencing official in the United States. (Courtesy of the icons)

USA Fencing addressed the controversy with an audience on Thursday, protecting its trans-inclusion policies.  

“American fencing remains of a mind to announce an inclusive and respectful network for everyone in our sport. We believe in the precept of creating safe communities where all athletes and network members have a place,” he said.  

“While we perceive that there is a diversity of perspectives, the US fences. UU. They will continue to have interaction in the respectful discussion, based on research and based on the review as the policy evolves in the Olympic and Paralympic movement, as well as the national law, the hate discourse of any kind is appropriate: in the user or in the user, they continue to be the verbal exchange and the tape Modes “.  

The organization first enacted its existing transinclusion policy in 2023. It allows transgender athletes to compete in the women’s category at the junior and senior point after completing a calendar year of testosterone suppression treatment. You will need to provide the compatible hormone treatment before the competition, however, the organization has taken extra steps to prioritize its trans competitors.  

In November 2022, it announced a policy of preference by setting up host cities for national tournaments states without legislation that “harms members of LGBTQ communities” and states that do not have “legislation that undermines women’s reproductive health. “This policy went into effect here in the 2023 season, in the same year that replaced its gender policy.

“We’ve listened to a confident number of members, adding Board of Trustees members and members of our elite athlete network, asking if legislation on anti-LGBTQ legislation or anti-abortion legislation aligns with our core values as an organization,” Fences Through USA CEO Phill Andrews said on the policy page. “After a falsified discussion with our Board of Trustees and our staff team, the U. S. U. S. Fencing to prefer those states without that legislation. “

In November 2023, the organization published a list of states that intended to “avoid as far as possible” and the States would allow the main occasions to be held. The states on the list of “no authors” were Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas.  

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The states on their “Avoid as much as possible” list come with Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, Virginia-Western, Wyoming, Alabama, Arakansas, Idaho, IndianA Kentucky, South, South, Mississippi, North Dake, Oklah, Oklahoma, Oklaho, Oklahi, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Southissippi, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginie-Western.

This mixture of policies preceded an influx of biological male shooters who sometimes compete with fencing of women and girls in the US. Uu. For more than two years. Some of these competitions have already competed in the category of men. In September 2023, 4 male biological shooters, which in the beyond the competition in the category of men, achieved the final podiums of the United States in the category of women.  

Turner told Fox News Digital that the amount of trans competition even superior to that.  

“In fencing, personally, I see it often,” Turner said. I assisted transgender shooters in women’s tournaments and girls’ tournaments in other age categories, in specific Y-14 (the youngest age group). ” 

Last weekend, Redmond Sullivan, participated in men’s occasions until June 2023, according to Sullivan’s profile page on the fencing tracker. The page does not show festival for Sullivan from June 2023 through September 28, 2024, the athlete’s first festival in the women’s category, one occasion in Newtown, Connecticut. Sullivan then won two gold medals, one to the Connecticut department’s junior Olympic qualifications on Dec. 8 and another to the Connecticut department’s national summer qualifications on March 16.

Last December, a final non -profit organization, the organization of fair fencing, wrote an open letter to the members of the Board of American Fencies Administrators that urged the reevaluation of its position on several questions, the transgender inclusion.

“In addition to politics, it is a moderate call to shape a career organization to immerse yourself more deeply in this fencing consultation and create an area where the voices of all women are heard without ridiculous and abuse,” the letter said.

A few days later, however, members of the Board of Trustees voted in opposition to several requests to approve an all-female career organization to rethink and revise the existing transgender policy, an 8-3 vote. As of now, after taking the siege of firing women seeking cover opposed to trans inclusion, U. S. fences are plunged into global controversy after Turner’s viral protest.  

USA FENING provided a Fox News Digital by directing the incident.  

“American Fences promulgated our transgender and non -binary athletes in 2023. The policy was designed to obtain greater access to the fencing game and create inclusive spaces and.

“We respect the perspectives of all sides and inspire our members to continue percentage with us as the factor evolves. It is for the surrounding network to have interaction in this dialogue, however, we hope that this verbal exchange will be carried out respectfully, either in our tournaments or in online spaces. The future is out of respect for the evidence -based discussion. ” 

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A fencing spokesperson in the United States also said that Fox News Digital Turner had been penalized for his position against trans inclusion, but only for refusing to shut down.  

“In the case of Stephanie Turner, its disqualification is not similar to any non -public statement, but only the direct result of its resolution to refuse to close an eligible opponent, that regulations are obviously prohibiting,” said the spokesman.

“According to the technical regulations of the FIE (Fénération des Fences Internationals), in the specific article T. 113, a shooter cannot refuse to close some other closure entered for any explanation why any. According to those regulations, said refusal leads to disqualification and the corresponding sanctions. This policy exists to maintain the criteria of the fair and the celebration of the integrity of the sport. ” ” 

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