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 cant just proclaim yourself a female and be able to compete against women.
Well Martina, somebody should have told you that you cant 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 Magowans 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 its 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 Magowans narrative. She tweeted in response to the BBC article, stating, Clearly that cant be right. You cant 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 hasnt been on the tennis circuit since 2010, after winning senior womens doubles at that years 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, Navratilovas 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 Courts 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 Navratilovas 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.
Adams: "I block Nazis." And then the block...
Well, a guy ought to be able to be a “world champion athlete” competing against girls, right?
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
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
Martina just got a Red Pill
Like a 12th grader bragging about beating up 4th graders...
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.
Semi-nonymous SJW Twitter Nazis are the wurst...
A case of the pot calling the ...
Precisely. But recognizing that would require intellectual honesty.
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.
You mean like double leg amputees?...................
Women aren’t giving up, it’s a forced surrender by the PC SJW Crowd.................
Was it a Pop-Up Book?..................
That would require the use of logic and reason on the part of the same crowd that thrives on Cognitive Dissonance...............
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