Martina Navratilova apologized for her controversial comments labeling transgender athletes “cheats,” which led Athlete Ally, an LGBTQ sports nonprofit, to sever ties with the tennis great. - NBCOUT
titled “The rules on trans athletes reward cheats and punish the innocent,” writing, “Letting men compete as women simply if they change their name and take hormones is unfair — no matter how those athletes may throw their weight around.”
“Well, I certainly stumbled into a hornets’ nest,” Navratilova wrote. “The support I normally get from ‘my people’, the LGBT community, was replaced by a barrage of quite nasty personal attacks.” “When I talk about sports and rules that must be fair, I am not trying to exclude trans people from living a full, healthy life,” she said. “All I am trying to do is to make sure girls and women who were born female are competing on as level a playing field as possible within their sport.”
"She trades on age-old stereotypes and stigma against trans women, treating us as men just pretending to be real women,” McKinnon said.In her latest op-ed, Navratilova said: “I know I don’t have all the answers. I don’t think there is a definitive answer here." She added that she simply wants “debate” and “conversation that includes everyone and is based, as I have said, not on feeling or emotion but science.
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