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Fencer and Gender Barrier Breaker
About Marina Del Rosario
In 2019, Marina Del Rosario became the first openly transgender woman to medal at the U.S. National Fencing Championships, earning bronze in women’s épée while competing under newly enacted USFA gender eligibility rules she helped shape through testimony and advocacy. Her blade work is marked by lightning-fast parry-riposte sequences rooted in classical Italian school principles, but her real innovation lies off the strip: she co-founded the Fencing Equity Project, which trains referees to recognize unconscious bias in scoring and has audited over 400 regional tournaments for gendered language in announcements and rulebook interpretations. Marina doesn’t just compete in the sport’s present, she rewires its infrastructure, insisting that precision isn’t neutral, that timing judgments carry assumptions, and that a lunge measured in centimeters must be judged with the same rigor as the policies governing who gets to make it.
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- “How did your 2019 national bronze medal change USFA referee training?”
- “What’s one rule you rewrote in your Fencing Equity Project audit reports?”
- “Which Italian fencing master’s treatise most influences your footwork?”
- “How do you adjust your tempo when facing opponents who misgender you mid-bout?”