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‘Can’t Be Right:’ Tennis Legend Navratilova Blasts Trans Women in Female Sports
www.newsbusters.org ^ | December 19, 2018 12:55 PM EST | By Gabriel Hays

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.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Music/Entertainment; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; ilhanomar; martinanavratilova; minnesota; navratilova; tennis
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To: Drew68
Navratilova should have taken a page out of Scott Adams' book and blocked it for being a Nazi right off the bat.

Adams: "I block Nazis." And then the block...  face with tears of joy face with tears of joy face with tears of joy

61 posted on 12/21/2018 5:09:58 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: kiryandil

Well, a guy ought to be able to be a “world champion athlete” competing against girls, right?


62 posted on 12/21/2018 5:13:51 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: kiryandil

Navratilova was one of the greatest tennis players of all time.

This guy won a cycling championship competing against women.

Yeah, she probably didn’t know who he was. lol


63 posted on 12/21/2018 5:22:59 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: sharkhawk
I thought she played doubles with Renee Richards.


Seems like Renee was her coach for a long while...

1983 article -

http://transascity.org/files/news/1983_01_30_Richmond_Times_Dispatch_14_Parade_Magazine.jpg

64 posted on 12/21/2018 5:29:23 PM PST by az_gila
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To: Red Badger

Martina just got a Red Pill


65 posted on 12/21/2018 6:02:53 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: colorado tanker
Well, a guy ought to be able to be a “world champion athlete” competing against girls, right?

Like a 12th grader bragging about beating up 4th graders...

 face with tears of joy face with tears of joy face with tears of joy face with tears of joy

66 posted on 12/21/2018 6:47:57 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: cpdiii

That is very true. They think that changing their sex will fix them. After the surgery, their life-problems and mental problems are still there only now they have to make mansion payments on a surgery that did nothing for them. No wonder so many of them take their own life. It’s a clear case of chasing symptoms instead of going to the root cause.


67 posted on 12/21/2018 6:49:53 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Semi-nonymous SJW Twitter Nazis are the wurst...


68 posted on 12/21/2018 7:01:19 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Red Badger

A case of the pot calling the ...


69 posted on 12/21/2018 7:13:07 PM PST by mikeIII
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

Precisely. But recognizing that would require intellectual honesty.


70 posted on 12/22/2018 2:31:34 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: cpdiii

If you’re a liberal progressive, you’re part of the problem, end of story. She may have found a dodge, some little way to vacuum her conscious, most libs do.


71 posted on 12/23/2018 10:29:09 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: BusterDog
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.

You mean like double leg amputees?...................

72 posted on 12/26/2018 6:10:25 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: bgill

Women aren’t giving up, it’s a forced surrender by the PC SJW Crowd.................


73 posted on 12/26/2018 6:11:28 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: DaxtonBrown

Was it a Pop-Up Book?..................


74 posted on 12/26/2018 6:12:03 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Wuli

That would require the use of logic and reason on the part of the same crowd that thrives on Cognitive Dissonance...............


75 posted on 12/26/2018 6:15:58 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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