Stephanie Turner is a hero. This week, she was forced to compete in a fencing tournament with a male athlete who identified as a "woman."
The man's name is Redmond Sullivan.
Yeah, this dude here:
Turner, 31, told her story in an interview after the event:
I took a knee immediately at that point. Redmond was under the impression that I was going to start fencing. So when I took the knee, I looked at the ref and I said, ‘I'm sorry, I cannot do this. I am a woman, and this is a man, and this is a women's tournament. And I will not fence this individual.
That's when Redmond, the man who was competing against men just last year, walked over, stood over his female opponent and said:
Well you know, there is a member on the board of directors here who supports me, and there is a policy that acknowledges me as a woman, so I am allowed to fence, and you will get blackcarded.
Stephanie responded with a simple "I know," and accepted her disqualification.
Turner says she was then given a black card by the officials for "serious rule infractions or unsportsmanlike behavior," and was escorted off the facilities.
She has refused to back down on her convictions, however:
'When I first started, this was unfathomable,' she told The Post of competing against trans opponents. 'I did this for my own physical safety, because this is a combat sport — and, in competition setting, men do fence a lot harder than women and I don't want to get hurt.
'It makes me very angry to see that we're going along with somebody else's fantasy.'
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Turner was told that she needed to be okay with a man hitting her with a sword. She refused to live by lies. She refused to live under abuse.
'My faith as a Christian has given me a lot of conviction in standing my ground,' Turner explained. 'And also watching Riley Gaines stand her own ground for all these years and stand up for women made me realize that I wanted to pay her back for all that she's done.'
YOU LOVE TO HEAR IT.
As for USA Fencing, the organization running the event, well, they are woker than woke.
Let's take a look a the staff from their official page:
How about the CEO with his pronouns?
And here was their official word salad about the incident:
Sen. Mike Lee was ticked off by their excuses.
Doesn't USA Fencing know woke is dead??
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