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Tennis icon Martina Navratilova is fed up with The Left.
A longtime Democrat and openly gay athlete, Navratilova recently expressed frustration on X that Republicans have been more vocal than Democrats on the issue of transgender athletes in women’s sports.
According to a Breitbart News report, she shared a photo of Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) with the group Gays Against Groomers, holding a “Save Girls’ Sports” shirt, highlighting her disappointment with her party’s silence on the matter.
“And I am so mad that the Republicans captured this issue – shame on all the elected Democrats who keep silent on this!!! #whataboutthewomen,” she wrote.
And I am so mad that the Republicans captured this issue- shame on all the elected Democrats who keep silent on this!!! #whataboutthewomen https://t.co/EvUpjUO8KQ
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) December 4, 2024
Navratilova has consistently opposed transgender participation in women’s sports, criticizing swimmer Lia Thomas in 2022 and stating at the Independent Women’s Forum’s June “Take Back Title IX” rally that fair integration of transgender athletes in women’s sports is “not possible.”
“It’s not about excluding transgender women from winning ever,” said the 59-time Grand Slam champion. “But it is about not allowing them to win when they were not anywhere near winning as men… You try to keep it as close as possible to what it would had been, were you born in the female biological body in the first place. And even saying that people take exception to – biological females. People don’t even want to use those words. I don’t know what else to say. Other than that.”
Navratilova added: “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. 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… ‘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.”
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