Martina Navratilova ripped these on the left who proceed to push for transgender inclusion in girls’s sports activities at an occasion in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
The tennis legend appeared on the Independent Women’s Forum’s “Take Back Title IX” rally as she and different outstanding girls’s athletes pushed again on the Biden administration’s Title IX rewrite.
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Tennis legend Martina Navratilova seems on through the trophy shows, which she offered together with Chris Evert, after the Women’s Singles Final on Court Philippe-Chatrier on the 2024 French Open Tennis Tournament at Roland Garros on June 8, 2024 in Paris. (Tim Clayton/Corbis through Getty Images)
Navratilova mentioned initially that she and her fellow Democrats tried each which approach to make the taking part in subject truthful for transgender athletes to compete in girls’s sports activities. However, when she did extra analysis into that notion, she decided it was an not possible activity.
“Initially, being the Democrats and the ladies that we’re for essentially the most half, we on this group had been looking for each single doable approach to embrace trans-identified males, males who determine as girls, into girls’s sports activities,” she mentioned. “And the extra we attempt to discover a approach to mitigate the benefit, to handicap, to by some means to incorporate, the extra we discovered it’s not doable. It’s not doable to do it in a good manner and right here we’re in a a lot totally different place.
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Martina Navratilova speaks throughout a be part of press convention with Chris Evert of the USA, on Day 5 of the GNP Seguros WTA Finals Cancun 2023 a part of the Hologic WTA Tour on Nov. 2, 2023, in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto through Getty Images)
“As I received deeper into the problem, I additionally noticed the connection between girls’s sex-based areas and ladies’s sports activities – they’re completely interconnected, and I’m certain the swimmers at Penn might inform you all about that. You heard about Lia Thomas, proper?”
Navratilova mentioned males are nonetheless making guidelines for girls, particularly on the subject of girls’s sports activities and defending sex-based areas. Any type of pushback from girls will get met with nasty names and threats.
To put the cherry on prime, Navratilova mentioned, it’s coming from these on the left.
“Now, it’s, ‘Oh, you’re a homophobe.’ Go determine. I’ve been out since ’81, yeah, I’m a homophobe,” she mentioned, rolling her eyes. “‘You’re a bigot, you’re a transphobe, you’re a Nazi, you’re a fascist, you’re a communist,’ all the things and all the things in between. And that is coming from the left. I’m the left! My persons are turning on me. They’re turning on us, girls, who communicate up for girls’s sex-based rights.”
She urged these within the viewers and her supporters to talk out for his or her daughters who’re concerned in these kind of issues.
The former Czech tennis participant Martina Navratilova receives flowers through the Italian tennis internationals on the Foro Italico in Rome on May 21, 2023. (Massimo Insabato/Archivio Massimo Insabato/Mondadori Portfolio through Getty Images)
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“We actually desire a degree taking part in subject once we are competing,” she mentioned. “We want the identical those that supported Title IX or that may assist Title IX in its unique kind to talk up now.”
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