Two Men Take Home “Women’s+” Longsword Medals At Western Martial Arts Tournament

By Reduxx Team

A trans-identified male has gone viral after winning a women’s longsword medal on Sunday in a tournament that had multiple male participants competing against females in the women’s category.

The Spring Fechten was held at the Soccer City sports centre in Oklahoma City this past weekend, organized by the Cymbrogi School of Western Martial Arts. The event serves as a “feeder” for their larger annual “Gesellen Fechten” championship to be held later in the year. Along with longsword competitions, the event also featured mixed sword and dagger competitions, being styled towards more traditional, medieval martial arts.

During an event titled the “Women’s+ Steel Longsword,” Beatrice, formerly Brice, Lostracco walked away with the gold, and boasted of his win on X in a celebratory post. His post immediately gained viral attention, with many expressing outrage at Lostracco for taking a medal intended for women.

The viral post on Lostracco’s X account, which has since been placed on “protected” mode.

Lostracco fought back accusations that he stole the title from a woman in a sarcastic follow-up post, writing: “at great cost to myself and my personal relationships, I changed my gender to participate in women’s events for a niche combat sport. I’ve been taking estrogen for 2 years so I could get a little metal circle. They’re just letting me get away with it.”

However, Lostracco was not the only trans-identified male in the event, revealing that he competed against both “cis women and trans women” in the longsword competition. In the published results on the Hema Scorecard website, six other “women” are listed, some of whom are biological males.

Fox Graves, formerly known as Michael, placed third in the event. Graves appears to have started identifying as a woman very recently, while the fifth-placed competitor, Mikela Bonner, is another openly trans-identified male.

As reported by HeCheated.org on X, Bonner, who works as a nurse in Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, spoke during a hearing at the Kansas House Committee on Health and Human Services against HB 2792 in February of 2024. The bill would have banned “gender transition surgery on minors, authorizing professional discipline against a physician who performs such surgeries and adopting a standard of care for gender transition care services.”

Bonner claimed that the “scientific consensus is overwhelmingly in support of gender-affirming care, and pretending as if the medical community does not already have a well-established, evidence-based standard of care regarding the care of genderdiverse children, adolescents, and adults is disingenuous at best and malicious at worst.” Bonner went on to reference the guidelines from WPATH, the trans health authority that recommended reducing the age at which children can receive “puberty-blocking” drugs and cross-sex hormones to 9 years old, and cited forums founded by a convicted paedophile.

“As a transgender person, these bills that are sweeping the country are signs of a coordinated and persistent attack on my population,” Bonner said. Following his testimony and the testimony of others, who said that “blood” would be on the hands of anyone who voted for it, the bill never passed the committee.

The Spring Fetchen is not the only HEMA event that allows males to compete against women. As reported by HeCheated.org on social media, trans-identified males have previously taken home women’s titles at the Icebreaker HEMA tournament. One such incident involved Roman “Romana” Shemayev, who topped the podium in every HEMA event he entered in both 2023 and 2024.

The Icebreaker HEMA tournament features a “women and underrepresented genders” category which explicitly allows males who identify as “women” to enter.

While the official results of the most recent Icebreaker HEMA tournament have not been released, competition officials did issue a statement to their Facebook condemning a “bigoted and misogynistic” attack on a player who did compete in the “women and underrepresented genders” event. While Icebreaker did not name the player who had been “targeted,” some have speculated it was a trans-identified male who participated in the category.

The issue of men participating in women’s sports and taking athletic titles continues to be a significant issue raising concerns from women’s rights advocates. Reduxx has reported on a number of trans-identified males who have taken awards from females in various women’s sporting competitions.

At the end of April, Ana Caldas, formerly known as Hugo Caldas, took home multiple titles at a national swimming championship held in Texas. A spokeswoman for the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) told Reduxx that Caldas’ latter gains were “absolutely insane” for short sprint races. “He’s just laughing at these women,” she added.

One week later, it was discovered that a trans-identified male high school student had been competing as the star starting pitcher for his high school’s girls’ softball team, leading them to easily dominate against the state champions. According to one female player who had previously played with him, Charlie Rothenberger, now known as Marissa, regularly used the female bathrooms, even rooming with other girls when the team travelled across the country, while none of the girls he shared facilities or bedrooms with was aware that he is male. “Looking back now, it disgusts me and is just scary,” she said.

The player described Rothenberger’s athletic performance compared to the other girls as being “completely unreal,” saying he is able to do “so much more” than girls who train with the exact same coaches. “He is able to be relied on as a pitcher, and took opportunities away from girls who deserved them most,” she said.

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