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Stephanie Turner and Payton McNabb, two tough female athletes, stepped up to the plate at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee hearing, “Unfair Play: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”
They were laying it down for Congress, but things got wild when Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) rolled up.
Crockett tried to play nice, hitting them with, “‘You’re both very courageous. You’re very courageous being here, and I want to say thank you for all of this,’” as Turner explained to Fox News Digital. But Turner wasn’t having it. She clapped back, “Payton and I both took time out of our day to be here, and I find it very disrespectful that you would co-opt this hearing that is about me and Payton and make it about your own politics.”
See, Crockett had just hijacked the mic to rant about Trump instead of sticking to the script—protecting women’s sports. She even turned it into a circus with some “Trump or Trans” game, quizzing a witness on who’s to blame for random nonsense like “increasing the price of everything.”
Crockett’s been loud about dissing Republican pushes to keep trans athletes out of women’s sports, even mocking folks who’ve been hurt by it. But then she tried to cozy up to McNabb and Turner? Nah, McNabb saw through it. “I think she was lying,” McNabb told the outlet. “I did not believe one word she said, because literally the theatrics… it was like a whole other person than what we all saw 10 seconds before she got over there.”
Fox News Digital tried to get Crockett’s side, but no word back because she has no guts.
The hearing was a straight-up mess—shouting matches, wild comments, chaos city. Turner and McNabb were left shook. McNabb, who got permanent brain damage in high school after a trans opponent spiked a volleyball into her head, had to hear Fatima Goss Graves, CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, suggest banning spiking altogether to “fix” it. “I would argue that the answer is to ensure people can’t spike volleyballs into other people’s heads,” Goss Graves said.
McNabb was like, “That was just absolutely ridiculous… it was a man who hit me in the face, it’s really just that simple.” Then Goss Graves had the nerve to offer to help McNabb recover from her brain injury. McNabb shut that down quick: “That’s not happening. This woman is obviously not sane.”
Turner, who went viral for kneeling instead of fencing a trans opponent and got slapped with a black card and a year’s probation by USA Fencing, was pissed at Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-CA). Simon claimed protecting women’s sports would bring back racial segregation and screw over Black women. Huh?
It was also the first time Turner faced USA Fencing chair Damien Lehfeldt since her protest. Lehfeldt, subpoenaed to the hearing, got grilled by Republicans over his org’s pro-trans policies and Turner’s punishment.
Turner wasn’t shocked Lehfeldt didn’t say sorry. “An apology is just empty words without actions,” she said.
This hearing was a clusterfrack, but Turner and McNabb are still out here fighting the good fight. Respect.
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Crockett tried to play nice, hitting them with, “‘You’re both very courageous. You’re very courageous being here, and I want to say thank you for all of this,’” as Turner explained to Fox News Digital. But Turner wasn’t having it. She clapped back, “Payton and I both took time out of our day to be here, and I find it very disrespectful that you would co-opt this hearing that is about me and Payton and make it about your own politics.”
See, Crockett had just hijacked the mic to rant about Trump instead of sticking to the script—protecting women’s sports. She even turned it into a circus with some “Trump or Trans” game, quizzing a witness on who’s to blame for random nonsense like “increasing the price of everything.”
Spoiler: the witness said “Trump” every single time. Twelve rounds of that garbage.
Crockett’s been loud about dissing Republican pushes to keep trans athletes out of women’s sports, even mocking folks who’ve been hurt by it. But then she tried to cozy up to McNabb and Turner? Nah, McNabb saw through it. “I think she was lying,” McNabb told the outlet. “I did not believe one word she said, because literally the theatrics… it was like a whole other person than what we all saw 10 seconds before she got over there.”
Fox News Digital tried to get Crockett’s side, but no word back because she has no guts.
The hearing was a straight-up mess—shouting matches, wild comments, chaos city. Turner and McNabb were left shook. McNabb, who got permanent brain damage in high school after a trans opponent spiked a volleyball into her head, had to hear Fatima Goss Graves, CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, suggest banning spiking altogether to “fix” it. “I would argue that the answer is to ensure people can’t spike volleyballs into other people’s heads,” Goss Graves said.
Maybe they should use Nerf balls instead.
McNabb was like, “That was just absolutely ridiculous… it was a man who hit me in the face, it’s really just that simple.” Then Goss Graves had the nerve to offer to help McNabb recover from her brain injury. McNabb shut that down quick: “That’s not happening. This woman is obviously not sane.”
Turner, who went viral for kneeling instead of fencing a trans opponent and got slapped with a black card and a year’s probation by USA Fencing, was pissed at Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-CA). Simon claimed protecting women’s sports would bring back racial segregation and screw over Black women. Huh?
Turner, a Black woman herself, wasn’t here for it. “I find that, as a Black woman myself, to be quite offensive… I was born in Washington D.C., raised in one of the bluest parts of America… and no, I don’t agree with you, that’s wrong.”
It was also the first time Turner faced USA Fencing chair Damien Lehfeldt since her protest. Lehfeldt, subpoenaed to the hearing, got grilled by Republicans over his org’s pro-trans policies and Turner’s punishment.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) straight-up demanded he apologize to Turner. He didn’t. Mace wasn’t fazed, hitting him with, “Real men protect women, you’re not one.”
Turner wasn’t shocked Lehfeldt didn’t say sorry. “An apology is just empty words without actions,” she said.
She’s now gunning for USA Fencing to overhaul its gender eligibility rules to protect women. The org’s whining it’ll only change if “forced.” Meanwhile, Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s new Title IX team is digging into Turner’s case with trans fencer Redmond Sullivan.
This hearing was a clusterfrack, but Turner and McNabb are still out here fighting the good fight. Respect.
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