Tennis Legend Margaret Court Condemns Puberty Blockers, Says Schools Have Abandoned Christian Values

In the arena of champions, the greatest victories sometimes come not from defeating opponents, but from standing alone when the crowd demands your silence. For over a decade, the transgender debate has erupted from academic theory into a cultural battlefield, dividing families, destroying careers, and rewriting the rules of biological reality. What started as a push for tolerance has morphed into something far different—a movement that now targets society’s most vulnerable: our children.

The issue should be straightforward, and honestly, it still is for anyone not drowning in academic gobbledygook. For millennia, humanity has understood that biological sex is binary and immutable. Yet somehow, in barely a generation, we’ve arrived at a place where stating this basic truth can cost you everything. Medical professionals who question giving hormones to confused adolescents face license revocation. Parents who resist their child’s sudden gender confusion risk losing custody. And those with platforms who dare speak up? They become instant pariahs.

This brings us to one of sport’s most decorated athletes, a woman whose achievements should guarantee reverence but whose convictions have made her radioactive to the very establishment she once dominated.

Margaret Court holds 64 Grand Slam titles—a record unlikely to ever be broken. Her 24 singles championships stood as the gold standard that even Serena Williams couldn’t surpass. Yet for the past 15 years, she hasn’t received invitations to the French or US Opens, tournaments she won five times each. In her native Australia, campaigns to strip her name from Margaret Court Arena have raged for over two decades. The 83-year-old Christian minister, who now runs Victory Life Centre in Perth and feeds the homeless daily, has become persona non grata in her own sport.

Her crime? Oh, you’re going to love this. Speaking the truth about children and gender with the clarity only a mother of four and grandmother could muster.

From ‘The Telegraph’:

Christian values have been taken out of our schools. Some children don’t even know whether they’re boys or girls any longer. This is where I get upset, because I look back at my life and I was such a tomboy when I was young. I played football and cricket, and I beat all the boys doing it. But I still knew I had two brothers who were different from me.

Court’s personal testimony cuts through the academic fog—and let me tell you, it’s refreshing to hear someone speak plain English about this madness. Here’s a woman who defied every gender stereotype of her era—dominating men in childhood sports, becoming the first woman to train with weights in men’s gyms, achieving athletic greatness that transcended traditional boundaries. Yet she never questioned her biological reality. She understood, as children naturally do when left alone, that being different from boys didn’t make her one.

Her most devastating critique targets the medical establishment’s rush to medicalize childhood confusion. “Giving them hormone replacement before puberty? They end up trapped in their bodies and they can’t turn back,” Court observes. “We don’t even allow them to drive until they’re 17. So why would you do that to another human being?” Think about that for a second. Really think about it. The comparison is apt and damning. We recognize teenagers lack the judgment to operate vehicles, vote, or sign contracts, yet somehow they possess the wisdom to sterilize themselves permanently?

The Australian tennis establishment’s treatment of Court reveals the viciousness of modern cancel culture. When she appeared on Christian radio discussing Australia’s “Safe Schools” program—which she called “the devil”—activist journalists twisted her words into “Court calls trans kids the work of the devil.” The lie spread faster than truth could lace its shoes. Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe paraded banners demanding her arena be renamed. She became, in her words, someone the Australian media wouldn’t “come near.”

But here’s what makes Court remarkable—and why I find myself admiring this 83-year-old woman more than most modern ‘heroes’: she hasn’t bent. With nothing left to prove athletically, she could easily retreat into comfortable silence. Instead, she continues speaking out, knowing each word costs her more legacy, more honors, more institutional recognition. “When you know the peace of God, when you help people and see their lives change, that’s all that matters,” she says.

This is courage. Real courage. Not the manufactured bravery of celebrities echoing approved narratives, but the genuine article—standing for truth when it costs you everything. Court sees what many of us see: a generation of children being sacrificed on the altar of adult ideology. She remembers what we’re supposed to protect them from—not just physical harm, but from making irreversible decisions based on temporary confusion.

History will remember Margaret Court not just for her 64 Grand Slam titles, but for refusing to let those titles silence her conscience. While others with platforms calculate the cost of speaking truth, she’s already paid it in full. And you know what? Good for her. She stands in that arena, alone perhaps, but undefeated in the match that matters most—protecting children from those who would steal their futures before they’ve even begun.

Sources: Fox News, The Telegraph

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