There has been uproar online after a female fencer was disqualified for refusing to face a transgender opponent.
USA’s Stephanie Turner was lined up to face Redmond Sullivan in a tournament at the University of Maryland earlier this week. But she was diaqualified from the tournament when after she took a knee and removed her mask in protest.
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In an interview with Fox News Turner explained that she had no intention of taking on ‘a man’ and therefore chose to remove herself from the match
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Fans have branding the competition ‘tainted and unfair’ and tennis legend Martina Navratilova has ripped USA Fencing for punishing a female fencer at the tournament in Maryland last weekeND.
“This is what happens when female athletes protest! Anyone here still thinks this is fair??? I am fuming… and shame on @USAFencing, shame on you for doing this. How dare you throw women under the gender bulls— bus!!!” Navratilova wrote on X.
The Mail Online reports: Turner had completed four matches before facing Sullivan, who eventually came 24th out of 39 in the tournament.
After the controversial incident, fans have taken to social media to blast USA fencing for disqualifying a female competitor and allowing a transgender athlete to take part.
One user posted on X: ‘You allow biological men to compete with women thus stripping women from reaching their dreams. Shame on you!’
‘Why are you disqualifying women and not the transgenders invading women’s sports,’ asked another.
‘Shame on every single one of you who allow men to compete with women. SHAME,’ wrote a third.
A fourth said: ‘Your organization and your people doing this to women and girls is an embarrassment. Go f*** yourselves’.
While one simply commented: ‘Your women’s competition is tainted and unfair.’
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who has frequently spoken out against transgender women competing in female sport in recent years, also weighed in on the controversy by saying: ‘And again….’