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Tennis great Martina Navratilova ‘mad’ GOP is winning on women sports and transgender issues

December 5, 2024 | | Print Article

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova is calling out Democrats who are keeping silent about trans athletes in girls’ sports.

Long an outspoken critic of the controversial practice, the 68-year-old far-left Democrat spoke out against her own party in a post on X that featured a photo of Congresswoman Nancy Mace. The South Carolina Republican was part of a group photo posted by the Gays Against Groomers and is seen holding a shirt that read “Save Girls’ Sports.”

“And I am so mad that the Republicans captured this issue – shame on all the elected Democrats who keep silent on this!!! #whataboutthewomen,” Navratilova wrote.

The 18-time Grand Slam champion spoke up on the controversial topic at the Independent Women’s Forum’s “Take Back Title IX” rally earlier this year as she and others criticized the Biden administration’s Title IX rewrite.

“Initially, being the Democrats and the women that we are for the most part, we in this group were trying to find every single possible way to include trans-identified men, males who identify as women, into women’s sports,” she said. “And the more we try to find a way to mitigate the advantage, to handicap, to somehow to include, the more we figured out it’s not possible. It’s not possible to do it in a fair way and here we are in a much different position.”

“As I got deeper into the issue, I also saw the connection between women’s sex-based spaces and women’s sports – they are totally interconnected, and I’m sure the swimmers at Penn could tell you all about that. You heard about Lia Thomas, right?” Navratilova continued.

“Now, it’s, ‘Oh, you’re a homophobe.’ Go figure. I’ve been out since ’81, yeah, I’m a homophobe,” the tennis great snarked as she rolled her eyes. “‘You’re a bigot, you’re a transphobe, you’re a Nazi, you’re a fascist, you’re a communist,’ everything and everything in between. And this is coming from the left. I am the left! My people are turning on me. They’re turning on us, women, who speak up for women’s sex-based rights.”

Speaking out in her latest post on X, Navratilova may be blasting her own party but is not about to support Republicans. Users who questioned why she would not support the one party fighting for women’s rights in sports got an adamant retort from the tennis star.

She continued to engage with many of those commenting on her post, as she denied the “feminist movement” is to blame, writing that “it’s males and patriarchy which is doing the damage and making the rules with some ignorant support from both men and women.”

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The comments on X continued to pile up as many called out the tennis pro for her continued party affiliation.

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