Posted on 12/21/2018 1:46:06 PM PST by Red Badger
Female tennis great, feminist, and gay rights activist Martina Navratilova may have just compromised her status as an LGBTQ icon with a Tuesday evening tweet. Navratilova criticized current transgender policies in sports, stating “you can’t just proclaim yourself a female and be able to compete against women.”
Well Martina, somebody should have told you that you can’t just proclaim such common sense on social media.
Navratilova, long considered to be the greatest female tennis player of all time, and one of the “first openly gay sports figures”, engaged in a Twitter debate prompted by BBC Sport writer Alistair Magowan’s article about criticism leveled at trans athletes who compete at a high level.
Magowan posted the article titled Transgender Women in Sport: Are They Really A ‘Threat’ to Female Sport? and captioned it with a tweet lamenting the “100,000 hate messages” received by Cyclist Dr. Rachel McKinnon “since winning her world masters title in October.” The prevailing message that Magowan was pushing is that those who think it’s unfair for men to become women and compete in sports are encumbered by some sort of misunderstanding.
However, tennis star Navratilova, who was once one of the “wokest” high profile figures of her time, was brave enough to confront Magowan’s narrative. She tweeted in response to the BBC article, stating, “Clearly that can’t be right. You can’t just proclaim yourself a female and be able to compete against women. There must be some standards, and having a penis and competing as a woman would not fit that standard…”
Navratilova hasn’t been on the tennis circuit since 2010, after winning senior women’s doubles at that year’s French Open. This was immediately after undergoing radiation therapy for breast cancer. Impressive to say the least, but for the International Tennis Hall of Famer, her career has always been impressive
In terms of gay rights, Navratilova’s coming out was also a watershed moment for the movement, and to this day, she continues to advocate for LGBTQ rights and progressive issues. In 2017, Navratilova wrote a public letter slamming former Australian tennis player Margaret Court’s “racist and homophobic” language against female tennis players, and most recently blasted the BBC for promoting the “gender-pay gap.”
But it should be interesting to see if Martina Navratilova’s activism buck stops here, considering that her Tuesday tweet represents a worldview that many radical LGBTQers have now deemed transphobic. Still, we hope that her perspective can jigger people back into thinking that the radical trans agenda may be going too far.
Counting to ten before she issues her apology.
Ok, [/s] noted, but … the lesbian-trans divide is real and a breath of rationality in this increasingly crazy arena. I don’t know that gay men have made much objection, and the issue doesn’t really impact them since it’s hard to think of an area in which a woman pretending to be a man is going to gain an inherent advantage by the imposture. Men pretending to be women, however, are a real issue, and probably not just in women’s sports. The smarter lesbians understand that the trans agenda essentially abolishes the concept of womanhood.
“How weird and “wonderful” a world that will be!”
“Brave New World” on steroids of ones choice. What could go wrong?
Too late. She already deleted and apologized several times.
“Navratilova, long considered to be the greatest female tennis player of all time”
Until her legend was surpassed by a “man” who became the greatest female tennis player of all time. Personal reasons, wanna bet thats why it upsets her?
Liberals used to claim 'No enemy on the left.' Now there are enemies in every direction.
One day it might even get as bad as conservatism's circular firing squad.
Cutting off a body part doesn’t make you a woman.
Until they have just one level of competition, for instance a 100 meter race that all humans can enter, there will always be something for one group to complain about. That would be true equality for all, but they will never do it.
Women are giving up ever winning in sports again.
T was originally for Trisexual as in they’ll Tri anything once
What a coward
I enjoyed Martina’s book “How To Lick Your Opponent”.
@jack is a vile little Muzzie-loving homo.
I really do not see her problem or concern. Was this not settled back in the 70’s with the Billie Jean King versus Bobby Riggs match? I thought it was settled that women could beat men, that it was not big deal? Well, let’s see how it works out now.
It should get together with John Kerry.
"Do you know who I am?"
This is but just one of the things with which the “trans” agenda is generating push back from “gays”. The other area is where the “trans” agenda is starting to say that “gender” (they mean sex) is ONLY a social construct, but “gays” have been arguing for some time now that “nurture” (social construct, internally or externally derived) has nothing to do with being “gay” that it is already there at birth. That makes the “trans” argument mean that being “gay” is a choice, which is not the argument that the “gay” agenda wants to here.
What was at stake wasn't that a woman could beat a man, but that a man could beat a woman young enough to be his daughter.
Turns out he couldn't (though he did beat Margaret Court, who was about Billy Jean's age).
It would have been nice if Billy Jean had continued the experiment by playing a man her own age, but she was smart enough not to.
I'll always remember Dr. Rachel McKinnon.
He was the first person who ever blocked me on Twitter.
It seems that everyone always apologizes.
That thing gives “ugly” a bad name...
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