XX-XY Athletics founder and CEO Jennifer Sey spoke out about why she was awarding a feminine fencer with a braveness award after the athlete’s stance towards a transgender opponent in a match.
Sey introduced throughout an interview with “America Reports” that she is honoring fencer Stephanie Turner, who was disqualified in March from competing in a event on the College of Maryland after she took a knee reasonably than compete towards a transgender athlete.
“We name them our Braveness Wins Champions,” Sey mentioned. “They’re girls who rise up or stand down from competing to defend girls’s sports activities.”
USA FENCING FACES TEXAS PROBE AFTER FEMALE FENCER PROTESTS AGAINST COMPETING WITH TRANS ATHLETE
Stephanie Turner on Fox Information Channel (Fox Information)
The athletics model additionally used a portion of its gross sales to award its newest Braveness Wins Champion a $5,000 grant, in accordance with its post on X, previously Twitter.
“We goal to take the sting out of financial cancelation and platform these girls and convey them on board,” Sey mentioned. “They’ve group. They’ve assist. They won’t stand alone.”
Turner joins a rising group of feminine athletes against competing towards transgender athletes.
Extra just lately, skilled disc golfer Abigail Wilson went viral for strolling out of her event in Nashville, Tenn., after she realized she had the identical tee time as a transgender athlete.
“I consider girls like Stephanie Turner, the fencer, and Abigail Wilson, the disc golfer, are beginning a motion,” Sey mentioned. “This isn’t a second. It’s a motion of reality and bravado that has begun.”
Sey, the nation’s 1986 national gymnastics champion, praised each athletes’ bravery.
“I am so happy with these girls,” Sey advised co-anchor John Roberts. “I’ve such admiration for them. It could possibly be career-ending, they usually do it anyway.”
After Roberts famous a transgender runner setting season information in an Oregon highschool’s women’ monitor races, Sey insisted that instances like Turner’s and Wilson’s should not remoted incidents.
“Girls’s sports activities should not the place for failed male athletes or mediocre male athletes to go,” Sey mentioned. “Compete within the class to which you had been born. Folks say it is only a handful. It is not a handful — I can identify 10 within the final week alone. Sufficient, it is over.”
On Feb. 5, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning organic males from competing in girls’s sports activities.
U.S. President Donald Trump joined by girls athletes indicators the “No Males in Girls’s Sports activities” govt order within the East Room on the White Home on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photos)
Whereas the NCAA adopted Trump’s govt order the next day, USA Fencing wrote in a statement to the College of Maryland’s pupil newspaper that the event from which Turner was banned was not an NCAA occasion.
The membership defended Turner’s disqualification as being in accordance with worldwide guidelines to compete with eligible opponents, earlier than affirming its dedication to “inclusivity” in an announcement.
“… we acknowledge not all people’ gender identities are binary, and a gender binary default for participation may probably trigger hurt — leaving some people to really feel excluded and unsafe,” USA Fencing said on its website. “Inside our divisions, USA Fencing is not going to discriminate on the premise of gender identification, regardless of intercourse assigned at beginning.”
