{"id":4679,"date":"2025-04-09T07:32:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/fencer-stephanie-turner-receives-honor-for-courage-after-refusal-to-compete-against-trans-athlete-amazing\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T07:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:32:44","slug":"fencer-stephanie-turner-receives-honor-for-courage-after-refusal-to-compete-against-trans-athlete-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/?p=4679","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;By taking a knee, she became more powerful than any male. She stood her ground to fight for women\u2019s sports &#8230; She\u2019s a hero.&#8221; XX-XY Athletics has given Stephanie Turner, the female fencer who refused to compete against a biological man, the Courage Wins Champion award."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Turner knelt in protest of a trans athlete who competed in a female fencing competition<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Female fencer\u00a0Stephanie Turner\u00a0was honored as a Courage Wins Champion for her decision to take a knee instead of competing against a biological male during an event earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>XX-XY Athletics announced Turner as the award winner on Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-263.png 720w, https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-263-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-263-678x381.png 678w\" src=\"https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-263.png\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" class=\"wp-image-5002 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-263.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5002\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-263.png 720w, https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-263-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/images1.icusocial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-263-678x381.png 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBy taking a knee, she became more powerful than any male. She stood her ground to fight for women\u2019s sports,\u201d XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey said in a news release. \u201cShe\u2019s a hero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turner will receive $5,000 and be entered into a leadership program.<\/p>\n<p>Sey announced the award on Fox News Channel\u2019s\u00a0\u201cAmerica Reports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe aim to take the sting out of monetary cancelation and platform these women and bring them on board,\u201d she said. \u201cThey have community. They have support. They will not stand alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turner refused to compete against trans competitor Redmond Sullivan at the Cherry Blossom Open. Turner received a black card for her decision to take a knee, leading to her expulsion from the tournament for serious infractions or unsportsmanlike behavior.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stephanie Turner on Fox News Channel\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1200\/675\/pictured-stephanie-turner-womens-fencer-101663091_8f5753-copy.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1200\/675\/pictured-stephanie-turner-womens-fencer-101663091_8f5753-copy.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Stephanie Turner on Fox News Channel\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stephanie Turner on Fox News Channel\u00a0(Fox News)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew what I had to do because USA Fencing had not been listening to women\u2019s objections regarding [its gender eligibility policy],\u201d Turner told Fox News Digital in an interview last week. \u201cI took a knee immediately at that point. Redmond was under the impression that I was going to start fencing. So, when I took the knee, I looked at the ref, and I said, \u2018I\u2019m sorry, I cannot do this. I am a woman, and this is a man. And this is a women\u2019s tournament. And I will not fence this individual.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUSA Fencing remains committed to fostering an inclusive, respectful community for everyone in our sport. We believe in the principle of creating safe communities where all athletes, and community members, have a place,\u201d the statement read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stephanie Turner cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1200\/675\/courage-wins-picture.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1200\/675\/courage-wins-picture.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Stephanie Turner cartoon\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<p><script><![CDATA[(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\n]]><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stephanie Turner was honored as the Courage Wins Champion\u00a0(XX-XY Athletics)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we understand there are a range of perspectives, USA Fencing will continue to engage in respectful, research-based dialogue and review as policy evolves in the Olympic and Paralympic movement as well as domestic law, hate speech of any kind is not acceptable\u2014online or in person. Let\u2019s keep the conversation respectful and the strip welcoming to all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turner knelt in protest of a trans athlete who competed in a female fencing competition Female fencer\u00a0Stephanie Turner\u00a0was honored as a Courage Wins Champion for her decision to take a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4683,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions\/4683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}