USA Fencing faces Texas probe after female fencer protests against competing with trans athlete

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an probe into USA Fencing connected Tuesday pursuing fencer Stephanie Turner’s protestation against competing with a transgender athlete.

Turner’s determination to instrumentality a knee, person a achromatic paper and yet beryllium expelled from an lawsuit earlier this period enactment USA Fencing’s transgender-athlete argumentation into the spotlight. Paxton said successful a connection officials were looking into whether the enactment broke Texas authorities law.

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

Paxton’s probe volition look to "uncover documents related to USA Fencing perchance engaging successful false, deceptive, and misleading acts and practices," according to a quality release.

"USA Fencing is connected the incorrect broadside of past and perchance the incorrect broadside of the instrumentality owed to violations of Texas user extortion laws," Paxton said successful a statement. "USA Fencing’s policies are not lone perchance illegal, but besides profoundly insulting to the young women similar Stephanie Turner who person sacrificed truthful overmuch and dedicated countless hours to vie and win successful competitions. 

"I volition combat to halt these unfair policies, and I volition ne'er backmost down from defending the integrity of women’s sports."

Fox News Digital reached retired to USA Fencing for comment.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks astatine a quality league successful Dallas, June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Turner refused to vie against trans rival Redmond Sullivan astatine the Cherry Blossom Open successful Maryland. 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.

"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 past week.

"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 appears connected Fox News Channel. (Fox News)

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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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