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The bravest people always suffer most for their courage, but history remembers them fondly, especially when they turn to God.
With that in mind, President Donald Trump’s common-sense Make America Great Again movement might have found its newest hero.
In an interview with Fox News published on Wednesday, 31-year-old women’s fencing athlete Stephanie Turner explained why, in a moment captured on video and made viral on the social media platform X, she chose to take a knee rather than compete against fellow athlete Redmond Sullivan, a man posing as a woman.
“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,’” Turner recalled.
By taking a knee, the 31-year-old signaled her refusal to fence.
From a conservative perspective, what delicious irony! Imagine, the act of taking a knee, which self-righteous athletes like former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick used during the singing of the National Anthem to showcase their wokeness, may now serve as an anti-woke gesture.
Turner described what happened next.
“Redmond was under the impression that I was going to start fencing. So when I took the knee, I looked at the ref and I said, ‘I’m sorry, I cannot do this. I am a woman, and this is a man, and this is a women’s tournament. And I will not fence this individual,’” she recalled.
“Redmond didn’t hear me, and he comes up to me, and he thinks that I may be hurt, or he doesn’t understand what’s happening. He asks, ‘Are you OK?’ And I said, ‘I’m sorry. I have much love and respect for you, but I will not fence you,’” she continued.
Note Turner’s wonderful courage in referring to Redmond by his proper male pronouns.
Indeed, a clip of the incident went viral on X. One could not hear much audio, but the initial exchange between the athletes appeared as respectful as Turner described.
As of Thursday afternoon, the clip had more than 334,000 views.