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Martina Navratilova has lengthy been outspoken about transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports.
In a fresh publish on X, the tennis legend mentioned she was once “mad” that Republicans have tackled the national controversy, in lieu than Democrats, the birthday party which she has aligned with.
Navratilova shared a photograph of Congresswoman Nancy Mace, R-S.C., with individuals of Gays Towards Groomers, keeping up a blouse that learn “Save Girls’ Sports.”
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Tennis legend Martina Navratilova throughout the trophy shows on the French Noticeable on June 8, 2024, in Paris. (Tim Clayton/Corbis by way of Getty Photographs)
“And I am so mad that the Republicans captured this issue – shame on all the elected Democrats who keep silent on this!!! #whataboutthewomen,” she wrote on X.
This isn’t the primary week Navratilova has ripped the left for his or her other perspectives at the factor. The tennis legend gave the impression on the Free Ladies’s Discussion board’s “Take Back Title IX” rally in June as she and alternative chief ladies athletes driven again at the Biden management’s Title IX rewrite.
Navratilova mentioned that she and her fellow Democrats attempted to build the enjoying ground honest for transgender athletes to compete in ladies’s sports activities. On the other hand, when she did extra analysis, she enthusiastic it was once an inconceivable activity.
Martina Navratilova provides a thumbs up then being venerated throughout the Internazionali BNL D’Italia at Foro Italico on Would possibly 21, 2023, in Rome. (Justin Setterfield/Getty Photographs)
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“Initially, being the Democrats and the women that we are for the most part, we in this group were trying to find every single possible way to include trans-identified men, males who identify as women, into women’s sports,” she mentioned. “And the more we try to find a way to mitigate the advantage, to handicap, to somehow to include, the more we figured out it’s not possible. It’s not possible to do it in a fair way and here we are in a much different position.
“As I were given deeper into the problem, I additionally noticed the relationship between ladies’s sex-based areas and girls’s sports activities – they’re completely interconnected, and I’m certain the swimmers at Penn may just let you know all about that. You heard about Lia Thomas, proper?”
“Now, it’s, ‘Oh, you’re a homophobe.’ Journey determine. I’ve been out since ’81, yeah, I’m a homophobe,” she said, rolling her eyes. “‘You’re a bigot, you’re a transphobe, you’re a Nazi, you’re a fascist, you’re a communist,’ the entirety and the entirety in between. And that is coming from the left. I’m the left! My crowd are turning on me. They’re turning on us, ladies, who discuss up for girls’s sex-based rights.”
Martina Navratilova attends the respectable draw rite and gala ahead of the Akron WTA Finals Guadalajara on Nov. 8, 2021, in Zapopan, Mexico. (Hector Vivas/Getty Photographs for WTA)
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Navratilova just lately referred to as Italian sprinter Valentina Petrillo, who competed within the Paralympics as a trans girl, a “mournful cheater.” In March, she made a plea to “keep women’s sports female.”
Fox Information’ Ryan Gaydos contributed to this record.
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