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Female athletes Stephanie Turner and Payton McNabb testified to members of the group Government Efficiency (DOGE) Parliament Wednesday’s subcommittee hearing: Unfair Play: Pull Men out of Women’s Sports.
At some point during the hearing, the two women were approached by the person in charge. Jasmine RoquetD-Texas.
“You’re both very brave. You’re very brave here. I’m grateful for all of this,” Crockett told the two women, Turner told Fox News Digital.
“And I thought, ‘Peyton and I both took the time to be there. I think it’s very rude to make it about this hearing about me and Payton and your own politics.”
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Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett (center) spoke with fencers who refused to compete with transgender athletes and Stephanie Turner of Payton McNabb, a former North Carolina high school volleyball player injured by his transgender opponent, and postponed hearings at the “old competition” hearing.” (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Crockett had just used her turn during the hearing to divert the conversation from protecting women’s sports, the main purpose of the hearing. Donald Trump About other issues. Crockett had tried to talk about it before.
Crockett has revealed the issue of transathlete inclusion by turning her monologue into a game that he called “trump or trance.” The game featured Crockett asking another witness whether to blame Trump or trans people on a series of unfounded issues, including “all prices rise” and “constitutional neglect.” Witnesses responded 12 times with “Trump.”
Crockett was incredibly opposed to Republican efforts to keep trans athletes away from women and girls’ sports, and he laughed at Americans who previously claimed they had been influenced. Still, she tried to complement McNabb and Turner.
“I think she was lying,” McNabb told Fox News Digital. “It’s literally a theatre, and she literally acted and whispered to become a lovely girl, and didn’t believe what she said. I don’t know what happened.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Crockett for further comment.
Crockett’s antics were one of several incidents that highlighted confusion hearings, including multiple cries match between committee members and eyewitnesses, and apparently suspicious comments. Many of such comments confused, annoyed and offended Turner and McNab.
McNabb suffered permanent brain damage in high school after hitting his trance opponent in the head during a volleyball game. She then had to look at the opposing witness Fatima Gos Graves, CEO of the National Center for Women’s Law.
“The answer would be to make sure people don’t push volleyball into other people’s heads,” Goth Graves said as he responded to McNab’s story at the hearing.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green holds a map of the United States in front of a screenshot of the suspect on Instagram of US Fencing Commission Director Damien Lefeld. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
For McNabb, Goss Graves’ answer was amazing.
“It was totally ridiculous,” McNab said. “The fact in question was on that day and the injury was different from anything else I had ever experienced, because it was the guy who slammed me into the face.
An even greater shock for McNabb was when Goss Graves worked with a former volleyball player to offer to help him recover from brain damage during the hearing.
“It’s not happening. This woman is clearly insane. I don’t know why I think she wants general medical advice or advice from her,” McNabb said.
Turner refused to face a trans opponent in a fencing match and committed the virus after being punished by USA Fencing, and was subjected to a special attack on comments by D-Cal Rep. Latefah Simon. During Simon’s turn, she proposed that protecting women’s sports would lead to regaining racism and that black women would be disproportionately targeted by the Transathlete Restrictions Act.
“I personally find myself very uncomfortable as a black woman,” Turner said.
“I think it’s offensive because they lead this statement as ‘As a black woman, I’m a black woman.’ Well, I’m a black woman. I was born in Washington, DC. He grew up in one of America’s brightest regions in Montgomery County, Maryland. No, I don’t agree with you, that’s wrong. ”
Wednesday was also the first time Turner was face-to-face with US fencing chair Damien Lefeld, who was summoned to the hearing since he protested on his viral knee. Turner was given a black card for refusing to play against a trans opponent, disqualified, escorted from the venue and was given 12 months of probation.
Lehfeldt was actively pressed by members of the Republican Committee throughout the hearing on his organization’s Pro-Trans policies and Turner’s punishment.
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From left, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Melanie Stansbury and Marjorie Taylor Green will speak at the Unfair Play: Locking Men from Women’s Sports hearing held on May 7, 2025 by the U.S. Capitol Government Efficiency Subcommittee. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
At one point, Rep. Nancy Mace (Rs.C.) used the time to ask Lehfeldt to apologize to Turner. Lefheldt did not apologise on request, but Mace responded, suggesting that Lehfeldt was “not a man.”
“A real man protects women, you’re not alone,” Mace said.
Turner said he was not surprised that Lefeld refused to apologize, saying that even if he did, he would not have accepted it.
“Apology is a blank word with no action,” Turner said.
Turner added that after Wednesday’s hearing, the next big goal of the move to protect women’s sports is to promote women’s fencing and make concrete changes to gender eligibility policies to protect women’s competitors.
The organization said it was preparing to fix it. Current policy This allows biological men to compete with women and girls if they “force” them to change it.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has previously announced that it has been newly formed Title IX Survey The team investigates an incident involving Turner and trans competitor Redmond Sullivan.
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