Fencer Stephanie Turner receives honor for courage after refusal to compete against trans athlete

Female fencer Stephanie Turner was honored arsenic a Courage Wins Champion for her determination to instrumentality a genu alternatively of competing against a biologic antheral during an lawsuit earlier this month.

XX-XY Athletics announced Turner arsenic the grant victor connected Monday.

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

"By taking a knee, she became much almighty than immoderate male. She stood her crushed to combat for women’s sports," XX-XY Athletics laminitis Jennifer Sey said successful a quality release. "She’s a hero."

Turner volition person $5,000 and beryllium entered into a enactment program.

Sey announced the grant connected Fox News Channel’s "America Reports."

"We purpose to instrumentality the sting retired of monetary cancelation and level these women and bring them connected board," she said. "They person community. They person support. They volition not basal alone."

Turner refused to vie against trans rival Redmond Sullivan astatine the Cherry Blossom Open. Turner received a achromatic paper for her determination to instrumentality a knee, starring to her expulsion from the tourney for superior infractions oregon unsportsmanlike behavior.

Stephanie Turner connected Fox News Channel (Fox News)

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"I knew what I had to bash due to the fact that USA Fencing had not been listening to women's objections regarding [its sex eligibility policy]," Turner told Fox News Digital successful an interrogation past week. "I took a genu instantly astatine that point. Redmond was nether the content that I was going to commencement fencing. So, erstwhile I took the knee, I looked astatine the ref, and I said, ‘I’m sorry, I cannot bash this. I americium a woman, and this is simply a man. And this is simply a women's tournament. And I volition not obstruction this individual.'"

USA Fencing defended its trans-inclusion argumentation successful aftermath of the protest.

"USA Fencing remains committed to fostering an inclusive, respectful assemblage for everyone successful our sport. We judge successful the rule of creating harmless communities wherever each athletes, and assemblage members, person a place," the connection read. 

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

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"While we recognize determination are a scope of perspectives, USA Fencing volition proceed to prosecute successful respectful, research-based dialog and reappraisal arsenic argumentation evolves successful the Olympic and Paralympic question arsenic good arsenic home law, hatred code of immoderate benignant is not acceptable—online oregon successful person. Let's support the speech respectful and the portion welcoming to all."

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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