Stephanie Turner steps away from USA Fencing career as she's put on probation after protesting trans athlete

EXCLUSIVE: Women's fencer Stephanie Turner's protestation kneel against Redmond Sullivan volition beryllium her past representation connected the strip, for a while.

The 31-year-old Maryland autochthonal is stepping distant from the athletics aft being dealt a 12-month probation by USA Fencing implicit her caller refusal to obstruction Sullivan astatine the Cherry Blossom Open connected March 30. 

Turner knelt connected camera, refusing to obstruction due to the fact that Sullivan is simply a trans athlete. Turner was past dealt a achromatic paper and escorted out. The footage of her kneeling sparked truthful overmuch attraction that it prompted a national probe into USA Fencing. 

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USA Fencing has present confirmed to Fox News Digital that Turner is nether 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.

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

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Her caller interactions with friends person been difficult, saying she present gets "dirty looks" from them, and immoderate bash not adjacent look astatine her astatine all. Turner antecedently told Fox News Digital that immoderate of her friends were successful the "LGBT" assemblage and did not cognize she believed biologically antheral trans athletes should not vie successful women's sports. 

"I'm alert of immoderate of the antagonistic comments that my friends person had, I'm mindful to springiness them capable space, but I'm definite that, successful the future, considering I judge this argumentation and this ideology to beryllium unsustainable, they'll travel astir eventually," Turner said. 

However, 1 of Turner's biggest concerns has not travel to fruition. After footage of the kneeling was archetypal released, she antecedently told Fox News Digital she was disquieted astir losing her job. 

That has not happened. 

Turner's kneel has alternatively called into question the occupation information of different individuals, aft wide backlash against USA Fencing and adjacent imaginable authorities sanctions. 

President Donald Trump's medication has launched an probe into the situation, which volition beryllium carried retired by the newly-formed national Title IX investigations squad successful conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Education. 

"The federation watched arsenic a pistillate rival bravely took a genu and forfeited an inherently unfair fencing lucifer aft discovering that her hostile was a male," Education spokeswoman Julie Hartman told Fox News Digital. "The Trump Administration’s Department of Education and the Department of Justice’s Title IX Special investigations squad volition not let recipients of national backing to contradict women’s adjacent accidental protections nether the law." 

USA Fencing has told Fox News Digital that it is consenting to cooperate successful the investigation. 

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Turner volition look to equine the national unit connected the enactment arsenic good portion she is not competing.  

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene connected Tuesday announced a proceeding addressing USA Fencing's sex eligibility policies and the incidental involving Turner and Redmond. Turner says she volition beryllium attending to attest against USA Fencing. 

"I don't envy the opposition," Turner said. 

"I anticipation the vulnerability to this contented that they person been desperately trying to screen up encourages them to alteration absorption connected the argumentation of allowing men successful women's sports… I don't privation to spot anybody punished beyond resolving the argumentation and ensuring pistillate exclusivity successful women's sports." 

Additionally, Turner plans to bash immoderate other is asked her of arsenic a nationalist fig to bring much nationalist attention, and unit to politicians, sports institutions, oregon anyone other warring to support trans athletes successful women's sports.

That adjacent means making caller friends with women's sports rights activists, including Riley Gaines. 

Turner volition look connected OutKick's "Gaines for Girls" podcast this week.

The occurrence volition diagnostic Turner arguing against the conception that males bash not person a carnal vantage successful fencing, and she volition unfastened up to the pistillate who has straight influenced her existent governmental beliefs.

As a erstwhile registered Democrat, Turner says the incidental that made her archetypal commencement to displacement her governmental views to becoming a "new Republican conservative" was witnessing Gaines person to look biologically antheral trans swimmer Lia Thomas astatine the 2022 NCAA women's swimming championships. 

It was an incidental that pushed Turner to the different broadside of the governmental spectrum, not conscionable connected that singular issue, but it made her question the Democrat level connected each different cardinal contented arsenic well. 

"I became acrophobic astir politicians deliberately lying to propulsion a argumentation they knew would wounded women and girls, it made maine wonderment ‘how overmuch other you could beryllium lying to maine about?’ So from determination I turned overmuch of my attraction to media that was much conservative-leaning, and I find it I'm [now] much favorable to their policies connected economics, societal issues, overseas argumentation and the border," Turner said. 

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Now, Turner volition get to instrumentality portion successful blimpish media herself, arsenic she takes a cardinal relation successful the origin she watched with passionateness from a distance, earlier hopping close into it successful the past month. 

"I'm excited astir the aboriginal for the archetypal clip successful women's sports for a fewer years," Turner said, crediting the movement. "I deliberation it's picking up speed, and we mightiness spot a solution this year." 

Meanwhile, USA Fencing volition apt look continued scrutiny from the nationalist and national arbitrators successful the coming months aft Turner's viral stunt. However, the enactment has truthful acold defended its policies and the determination to enactment Turner connected probation. 

"Stephanie Turner’s achromatic paper was issued successful accordance with the aforesaid argumentation and procedures that use to each achromatic cards astatine USA Fencing-sanctioned events. Under our rules, a achromatic paper results successful a probationary play for 12 months — a modular enactment specified by our policy," a USA Fencing spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

"This does not impact Ms. Turner’s rank status, and she remains eligible to vie successful aboriginal tournaments. We dainty each achromatic paper consistently, careless of the circumstances starring to it, successful enactment with USA Fencing’s established guidelines."

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