Fencer disqualified after refusing to face opponent she says is trans
Fencer disqualified after refusing to face opponent she says is trans
Looking for trans people in the bushes with a magnifying glass.
All these fears are completely unfounded and ridiculous, but you know what? If I had a button to press for trans liberation, but it actually somehow meant destroying every organized sports competition on the planet forever, I wouldn't hesitate for one microsecond to press it.
Imagining a guy who is transphobic but hates sports more
destroying every organized sports competition
shit i'd press that button for nothing. good job swindling trans rights out of the magic button council
I would ptess the buttpn just to fuck up sports forever
The way it has to be
I posted about this in the mega, but yeah the fencing community is actually super welcoming to trans athletes and most lower level competitions are coed because sex differences are so minor in the sport. In fact, this transphobe very recently competed in a mixed competition where she went against men! She didn't seem to have any problem with it then.
Also, getting all the way on to the piste before refusing to bout is such a pathetic move. Absolutely deserved the black card.
Grifters gonna grift. My guess is she decided she wasn't ever going to be able to make a living as a fencer, and her other career prospects aren't looking great. So she decides to make a buck by becoming a right wing commenter/grifter. She happened to be paired against a trans woman in a competition and saw it as her chance to make a buck and launch an influencer career.
Yeah, she was in her 30s which isn't too old to enjoy this wonderful sport of physical chess, but definitely too old to be an Olympic superstar.
Splitting fencers up by gender
Splitting fencers up by height and arm reach length
Granted I've never paid too much attention to professional fencing so I have no idea if those factors are as dominant there as they were in the amateur stuff I did a while back
I found the tournament results, I'm not going to put her on blast but it's fair to say the trans athlete did not have some sort of advantage.
Yeah. Middle of the road, lost fair and square to several cis women who weren't whiny transphobes.
Trans women actually do have one distinct advantage though - we can shoot lasers out of the sword if we swing it while at full health. So in order to compete fairly we actually willingly take half a heart of damage beforehand.
The Associated Press is not identifying Turner's opponent
Rare AP W.
No matter who this person is, identifying them would just unleash a storm of harrassment.
She's too skilled. Has to be trans. Only trans people could be that powerful.
I heard trans people can wavedash
When your fencing opponent hits you with the double jump
Imagine how tough it is when your fencing opponent can mishima step and hit you with the electric wind god fist! Trans athletes have unfair frame advantage
Oh lord, chuds always drum up anti-trans panic every sports season
Hope she's barred from sullying any competition with her presence ever again.
after this stunt she's never gonna have to fence again. she's just gonna get koch bucks to go on fox news and cry about how she was "fenced out of her sport by transthletes"
Online video showed Turner took a knee in protest
Simulacrum quote
I cant imagine a more shameful and cowardly way to refuse to play cause you know youre gonna lose fuck off piece of shit
You can just do this if you think you’re going to lose I guess.
That's what a disc golfer did yesterday. Made more hate money from the GoFundMe than they won all last year, by a multiple of three. Just cringe-cis things.
took a knee
God these people are embarrassing. Unless that has some significance in fencing. In which case these people are still embarrassing but not for the reasons stated
En garde