Female fencer refuses to compete against male athlete: ‘I am a woman, and this is a man’

A female fencer who refused to compete against a male athlete was disqualified from a competition under USA Fencing.

Stephanie Turner of the Fencing Academy of Philadelphia was set to take on a male athlete, Wagner College’s Redmond Sullivan at the Cherry Blossom, a fencing event held at the University of Maryland.

As the match began, however, Turner refused to participate against the male and took a knee in protest.

An official immediately approached Turner and eventually gave the fencer a black card, a penalty typically issued for egregious behavior that can result in the expulsion from a competition.

“I knew what I had to do because USA Fencing had not been listening to women’s objections,” Turner told Fox News about the ordeal. “I took a knee immediately,” she

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