Posted on 02/20/2019 8:53:36 AM PST by xzins
Martina Navratilova, who won multiple Wimbledon and U.S. Open titles and is considered among the best female tennis players in history, denounced the idea that transgender females -- men who claim they are women -- can compete fairly in women's sports, stating "it's insane and it's cheating."
"[I]t is surely unfair on women who have to compete against people who, biologically, are still men," she wrote in The Sunday Times on Feb. 17. "[F]airness should always be valued and strived for" and "unfairness introduced through human action and chemical means should be condemned and outlawed."
Navratilova, who came out as a lesbian in 1981, wrote her commentary on transgender athletes partly in response to being criticized by transgender "female" cyclist Rachel McKinnon, a biological male who won the women's Masters Track cycling world championship in October 2018.
Navratilova had also been attacked for tweeting, “You can’t 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.”
The tennis legend explains that, after the criticism, she researched the topic of transgenderism at length and found that the evidence only confirmed her views.
"[I]f anything, my views have strengthened," she wrote in The Times. "To put the argument at its most basic: a man can decide to be female, take hormones if required by whatever sporting organisation is concerned, win everything in sight and perhaps earn a small fortune, and then reverse his decision and go back to making babies if he so desires."
"It’s insane and it’s cheating," said Navratilova. "I am happy to address a transgender woman in whatever form she prefers, but I would not be happy to compete against her. It would not be fair."
"Simply reducing hormone levels — the prescription most sports have adopted — does not solve the problem," she wrote. "A man builds up muscle and bone density, as well as a greater number of oxygen-carrying red blood cells, from childhood. Training increases the discrepancy. Indeed, if a male were to change gender in such a way as to eliminate any accumulated advantage, he would have to begin hormone treatment before puberty. For me, that is unthinkable."
Navratilova continued, "Hundreds of athletes who have changed gender by declaration and limited hormone treatment have already achieved honours as women that were beyond their capabilities as men, especially in sports in which power rather than skill is paramount. McKinnon is just one example."
"That may uphold the International Olympic Committee’s charter, which holds that 'the practice of sport is a human right,' but it is surely unfair on women who have to compete against people who, biologically, are still men, she said.
Transgender "female" Rachel McKinnon, center, a biological male who won a women's cycling championship.
"I still believe that fairness should always be valued and strived for, and that unfairness introduced through human action and chemical means should be condemned and outlawed," said Navratilova, who won nine Wimbledon titles (Grand Slam Singles), four U.S. Open titles, and two French Open titles.
Navratilova, 62 and a U.S. citizen, also denounced the "tyranny" of the politically correct gender police. "I also deplore what seems to be a growing tendency among transgender activists to denounce anyone who argues against them and to label them all as 'transphobes,'" she wrote. "That’s just another form of tyranny. I’m relatively tough and was able to stand up for myself in my Twitter exchange with McKinnon, but I worry that others may be cowed into silence or submission."
She continued, "Here’s how I concluded my Twitter spat: 'Rachel [McKinnon], you may be an expert on all things trans, but you are one nasty human being. Attack, attack, attack. I will not take it from you. You did not engage; you bullied."
*APPLAUSE* Sic ‘Em, Martina!
They will ALWAYS be biologically men, even if they have their parts altered.
They will still be XY.
This reminds me of Anita Bryant of orange juice fame. She stood up to the perverts but we didn’t back her.
https://www.conservapedia.com/Anita_Bryant
Speaking the truth will make you a target, let’s see how this one goes...……………………………..
Women’s sports may well be dominated by men who claim to be “transgendered”.
As we as a society bend over backwards for this LGBT business, and bend over backwards to prove that we are liberal, we won’t be able to keep men out of women’s sports.
Now she will be in trouble for stating the truth with the SJW rectums, who deny science and sexual realities to push their mentally ill agendas.
Well, she’ll be on the leftist poop list now.
I couldn’t agree more!
What did the gays expect once they got their “rights”? Did they really think it was going to stop there?
Meanwhile, she’s being crucified among the homo crowd for this perfectly commonsensical observation.
One of the interesting intersectional struggles is the fight between the lesbians and the transgendered women to see which is really the oppressed class.
Intersectionality ranks the downtrodden. Women are better than men. Black people are better than white. Native Americans are better than blacks. Gays obviously are better than straight. So a gay, Native American woman is in the morally unassailable position.
But where do the transgendered fit in? Gay women do NOT want to give up the top spot to people who were born male and thus have experienced that true privilege. A lot of lesbians hate the trans, to the extent that an acronym has been born, TERF. (Trans-exclusionary radical feminist.)
She’s one of them.
I’ll NEVER bend over backward (or FRontward) for a homosexual!
The practice of homosexuality, and all the various permutations and mutations thereof, is an evil perversion of human sexuality!
Those deranged persons who support the homosexual perversions should be shunned, not praised!
No, I am not a homophobe; I just don’t like them!
Waiting for the picture of the East German Women’s Olympic Team from “Top Secret.”
Science is science for “global climate change warming”, but no so much for gender chromosomes. Then its whatever you want it to be regardless of science.
That’s a man, baby!
McKinnon holds a special place in my heart. He was the first person to ever block me on Twitter. He didn't appreciate my lack of enthusiasm over his victory in a ladies' event in my tweet to him.
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