Martina Navratilova has lengthy been outspoken about transgender athletes in ladies’ and ladies’s sports activities.
In a brand new publish on X, the tennis legend mentioned she was “mad” that Republicans have tackled the nationwide controversy, relatively than Democrats, the occasion which she has aligned with.
Navratilova shared a photograph of Congresswoman Nancy Mace, R-S.C., with members of Gays Towards Groomers, holding up a shirt that learn “Save Women’ Sports activities.”
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Tennis legend Martina Navratilova in the course of the trophy displays on the French Open on June 8, 2024, in Paris. (Tim Clayton/Corbis through Getty Pictures)
“And I’m so mad that the Republicans captured this difficulty – disgrace on all of the elected Democrats who maintain silent on this!!! #whataboutthewomen,” she wrote on X.
This isn’t the primary time Navratilova has ripped the left for his or her completely different views on the difficulty. The tennis legend appeared on the Impartial Ladies’s Discussion board’s “Take Again Title IX” rally in June as she and different outstanding girls athletes pushed again on the Biden administration’s Title IX rewrite.
Navratilova mentioned that she and her fellow Democrats tried to make the enjoying subject truthful for transgender athletes to compete in girls’s sports activities. Nevertheless, when she did extra analysis, she decided it was an unattainable activity.
Martina Navratilova provides a thumbs up after being honored in the course of the Internazionali BNL D’Italia at Foro Italico on Could 21, 2023, in Rome. (Justin Setterfield/Getty Pictures)
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“Initially, being the Democrats and the ladies that we’re for essentially the most half, we on this group have been looking for each single potential solution to embrace trans-identified males, males who establish as girls, into girls’s sports activities,” she mentioned. “And the extra we attempt to discover a solution to mitigate the benefit, to handicap, to someway to incorporate, the extra we discovered it’s not potential. It’s not potential to do it in a good manner and right here we’re in a a lot completely different place.
“As I obtained deeper into the difficulty, I additionally noticed the connection between girls’s sex-based areas and ladies’s sports activities – they’re completely interconnected, and I’m certain the swimmers at Penn may inform you all about that. You heard about Lia Thomas, proper?”
“Now, it’s, ‘Oh, you’re a homophobe.’ Go determine. I’ve been out since ’81, yeah, I’m a homophobe,” she mentioned, rolling her eyes. “‘You’re a bigot, you’re a transphobe, you’re a Nazi, you’re a fascist, you’re a communist,’ every thing and every thing in between. And that is coming from the left. I’m the left! My individuals are turning on me. They’re turning on us, girls, who converse up for ladies’s sex-based rights.”
Martina Navratilova attends the official draw ceremony and gala earlier than the Akron WTA Finals Guadalajara on Nov. 8, 2021, in Zapopan, Mexico. (Hector Vivas/Getty Pictures for WTA)
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Navratilova lately known as Italian sprinter Valentina Petrillo, who competed within the Paralympics as a trans lady, a “pathetic cheater.” In March, she made a plea to “maintain girls’s sports activities feminine.”
Fox Information’ Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.
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