A female fencer was handed a brutal punishment for refusing to take part against a transgender opponent.
Stephanie Turner was competing at the Cherry Blossom Open event in Maryland last weekend when she discovered that her opponent would be Redmond Sullivan, a transgender athlete.
Turner decided that she would not compete with Sullivan but did not tell anyone her decision until the day of the match.
She told Fox News: “I saw that I was going to be in a pool with Redmond, and from there I said, ‘OK, let’s do it. I’m going to take the knee.’”