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Female athletes Stephanie Turner and Payton McNabb testified to members of Congress at a hearing on Wednesday's "Unfair Game: Getting Men Out of Women's Sports" by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee.
At one point during the hearing, D-Texas' Rep. Jasmine Crockett approached the two women.
Turner told Fox News digits, and Crockett said to the two women: "You are both brave. You are very brave here, and I want to say thank you."
"And I said 'Peton and we both took some time to go there and I found you would choose this hearing, which has something to do with me and Payton and has done it with your own politics.'"
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Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, center, speaks to Stephanie Turner, left, a fencer who refused to compete against a transgender athlete, and Payton McNabb, a former North Carolina high school volleyball player who was injured by a transgender opponent, during the hearing on "Unfair Play: Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" held by the DOGE Subcommittee on May 7, 2025 in Washington, DC (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Crockett just used her turn to shift the conversation to the main purpose of the movement to protect women, the hearing’s main purpose, condemning President Donald Trump’s other issues. Crockett tried to speak before
Crockett even sheds light on the cross-athlete problem by turning her monologue into a game she calls “Trump or Trans”. The game asked another witness as Crockett whether he blamed Trump or Trans People, including a series of unproven questions that included “raising everything” and “ignoring the constitution.” All witnesses answered "Trump" 12 times.
Crockett speaks outspokenly against Republican efforts to separate trans athletes from women’s and women’s sports, even though he used to ridicule Americans who claimed to be affected. However, according to them, she tried to complement McNabb and Turner.
“I think she’s lying,” McNabb told Fox News Numbers. "I don't believe a word she said because literally watching the drama, and she's been literally showing it and then trying to come over and whisper, it's a good girl for us. I don't know what's going on, it's someone else like 10 seconds we all saw before we got there."
Fox News Digital and Crockett reached out for further comment.
Crockett’s antics were one of several incidents, highlighting a chaotic hearing involving multiple yells between committee members and witnesses, as well as obvious remarks. Many of these comments confused, frustrated and offended Turner and McNabb.
McNabb suffered a permanent brain injury in high school after being spiked by a cross-opponent's head during a volleyball game. She then had to watch a witness against Fatima Goss Graves, CEO of the National Women's Law Center, which suggests that the way to prevent other women from facing similar injuries is to prevent spikes in volleyball games.
"I think the answer is to make sure people can't stab the volleyball in the head," Goss Graves said at the hearing in response to McNabb's story.
The female swimmer whispered out loud after facing trans competitors unknowingly, filing a complaint: “I feel betrayed”
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene held by the Department of Efficiency Subcommittee on US CAPITOL's May 7, 20225, Washington State, Washington State DC, at a hearing on "Unfair Game: Getting Men Out of Women's Movement." (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Goss Graves's answer to McNabb is shocking.
"That's absolutely ridiculous," McNabb said. "The fact is, that day, the hurt was different from anything else I've ever experienced, because it was a guy who hit me, and it was really simple."
McNabb's shock was when Goss Graves was willing to work with front volleyball players to help her recover from her brain injury at the hearing.
"This didn't happen. This woman was obviously not sane, and I don't know why she thought I would get some medical advice or advice from her in general."
Turner was known in April for refusing to face cross-opponents in a fence game and was particularly guilty of his comments on D-CAL's Rep. Latefah Simon. During Simon's turn, she suggested that the movement to protect women would lead to segregation, while black women would be disproportionately under trans athlete restriction laws.
"I am a black woman myself, and it's offensive," Turner said.
“I think it’s offensive because they take that claim as ‘As a black woman, I’m a black woman.’ Well, I’m a black woman, I was born in Washington, D.C., and I grew up in the blueest part of the country in Montgomery County, Maryland, no, I don’t agree with you, that’s wrong.”
Wednesday also marked the first time Turner faced with American fence chair Damien Lehfeldt, who has been called to the hearing since her virus kneeling protests. Turner was denied refusing to face cross-opponents, disqualified and accompanied on the field, before taking a 12-month probation.
Throughout the hearing, Lehfeldt was actively imposed by members of the Republican committee, his organization’s parental policies and punishments against Turner.
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From left to right, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Rep. Melanie Stansbury and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at the Government Efficiency Subcommittee at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on May 7, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., to speak at the hearing on “Unfair Game: Getting Men Out of Women’s Movement” in the District of Columbia. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
At one point, Rep. Nancy Mace, Rs.C. Lefheldt did not apologize to the request, and in response, Mace suggested that Lehfeldt “not” a man.
"A real man protects women, you're not one," Mess said.
Turner said she was not surprised by Lefelt's refusal to apologize, and would not accept it even if he did.
"The apology is just a blank space without action," Turner said.
Turner added that after Wednesday’s hearing, she saw the next big goal of the campaign to protect women is to push the U.S. fence to make specific changes to its gender eligibility policies to protect women’s competitors.
The organization says it is preparing for modification Current policies This allows the biological male to compete with women and girls if it is "forced" to change it.
Education Minister Linda McMahon has previously announced the new creation Title IX Survey The team will explore events involving Turner and trans rival Redmond Sullivan.
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