Fencer reveals difficulties after taking stand on trans inclusion in women's sports

Fencer Stephanie Turner spoke retired astir immoderate of the difficulties that came with her determination to instrumentality a genu successful protestation of competing against a transgender jock during a competition.

Turner was honored arsenic the Courage Wins Champion by XX-XY Athletics pursuing the decision, which led to her expulsion from the lawsuit and a USA Fencing investigation.

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Stephanie Turner was honored arsenic the Courage Wins champion. (XX-XY Athletics)

She appeared connected OutKick’s "Gaines for Girls" podcast with Riley Gaines to speech astir the grant and opened up astir coming retired against trans inclusion successful women’s sports.

"There are rather a batch of women who are witnessing men successful their sports, and they are trying to prevention their ain sports connected their own, and it’s hard to travel retired due to the fact that you fundamentally nuke your full life," she said. "You tin look societal ostracism, you tin person fiscal blowback, you tin person grooming disrupted, and you could person officials oregon referees present not being precise favorable toward you for the remainder of your life. 

"There’s nary extremity to the backlash that you whitethorn face, oregon you could person threats connected your beingness similar I cognize successful your lawsuit you person had specified things hap to you. So, it’s not amusive being connected the receiving extremity of this. It’s not what I wanted to do, and it helps to person radical who admit that, that it takes immoderate benignant of sacrifice to bring attraction to an contented and I admit XX-XY for their acknowledgment."

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Women's fencer Stephanie Turner kneels successful protestation successful beforehand of transgender jock Redmond Sullivan. (Courtesy of ICONS)

USA Fencing told Fox News Digital that Turner is present connected probation for the adjacent 12 months aft receiving a achromatic paper for the forfeit. She tin inactive vie successful events nether the probation but is choosing not to.

"I'm going to beryllium taking a interruption from fencing for a portion successful the U.S. circuit, truthful that's a small spot of a disruption for me… It has disrupted my training, it has disrupted my interactions erstwhile I spell retired successful public, and it volition surely disrupt my contention due to the fact that I won't beryllium competing successful the United States immoderate clip soon," she told Fox News Digital erstwhile asked if her anticipation that taking the genu would "destroy her life," came true.

Instead, Turner volition absorption connected her caller ngo successful the question to prohibition trans athletes from women's sports.

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"I volition stay successful the nationalist oculus for arsenic agelong arsenic it takes to resoluteness this," she said.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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