Chaos erupted as several women protested the inclusion of a male athlete in a female fencing tournament over the weekend.
The male athlete in question is Annika Rose Suchoski, who made headlines in 2024 after coming in second in a women’s fencing tournament despite only being in the sport for six months, the Daily Mail reported.
Suchoski reportedly towered over his competition at the Fortune Fencing Regional Championships last year, and therefore it came as no surprise that activists in California were ready to call out the six-foot athlete. Online posts ahead of the Women’s Epee Foil noted that Suchoski was set to take part in the 40-49 women’s division; Suchoski is reportedly 40 years old.
‘[It] has nothing to do with the biological reality of sex.’
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