Trans female fencer no longer on college team amid latest controversy

A transgender fencer, who competed successful a USA Fencing-sponsored tourney and was astatine the halfway of contention aft an hostile protested against the organization’s gender-participation policies, is nary longer connected the Wagner College women’s fencing team.

Wagner College confirmed to Fox News Digital that Redmond Sullivan was disconnected the squad much than a week pursuing the contention astatine the Cherry Blossom Open successful Maryland.

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

Sullivan is shown to person competed for the Wagner women’s squad successful the foil contention successful respective meets during the archetypal fractional of the 2024-25 season. Sullivan participated connected the men’s squad during the 2023-24 season, scoresheets from meets during the play showed.

The NCAA changed its transgender-inclusion argumentation aft President Donald Trump signed the "No Men successful Women's Sports" enforcement order.

"A student-athlete assigned antheral astatine commencement whitethorn not vie connected a women’s team," the argumentation read.

Sullivan was astatine the Cherry Blossom Open and was acceptable to look disconnected against Stephanie Turner.

Turner decided to instrumentality a genu successful protestation of Sullivan’s inclusion successful the conscionable and of USA Fencing’s transgender-participation policies. Turner spoke to Fox News Digital astir her determination to protestation and yet get expelled from the event.

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Stephanie Turner connected Fox News Channel (Fox News)

"This is simply a superior contented that is happening wrong each sports, and it needs to beryllium addressed. There is simply a quality betwixt men and women," Turner said. "It is simply a civilian rights question for women and girls, and I prioritize the information and rights and extortion of women and girls implicit trans-identified males."

USA Fencing has since defended its transgender information policies.

Sullivan’s nine team, Iconic Fencing Club, backed the fencer aft the lawsuit with Turner.

"Red has followed each regularisation and line acceptable distant by the FIE and USA Fencing, the connection said. "She has each close to vie successful the events that she qualifies for, and has agelong since met the criteria to bash so.

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"Fencing is rooted successful a heavy contented of honor, sportsmanship, inclusion, and respect, and successful a athletics that prides itself connected these values, the benignant of behaviour expressed by Red’s hostile has nary place. Iconic Fencing Club supports Red successful her fencing travel and volition proceed to bash truthful successful the future."

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