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Tennis star Martina Navratilova slams trans cyclist Austin Killips’ victory

By Yaron Steinbuch
May 5, 2023

Tennis great Martina Navratilova took a swing at transgender cyclist Austin Killips, who won a women’s race this week in New Mexico – saying “trans identified male athletes” have no place in women’s sports.

The nine-time Wimbledon champion spoke out after Killips, 27, became the first openly trans woman to win an official Union Cycliste Internationale stage event on Sunday.

“Transgender cyclist Austin Killips wins women’s race, causes outrage- this will happen more and more- women’s sports is NOT THE PLACE for trans identified male athletes,” Navratilova, 66, said in a tweet Wednesday.

Killips, who was sanctioned to compete under the governing body’s rules, won $35,000 after winning the Tour of the Gila stage race in 3:07:16 – ahead of Marcela Prieto and Cassandra Nelson by a margin of 89 seconds.

Killips drew swift backlash for the victory.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/05/05/martina-navratilova-slams-trans-cyclist-austin-killips-victory/

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Martina is one of the greatest ever in her sport, and she's a lesbian, but her criticism of men pretending to be women for the sake of athletic accomplishment seems to be falling on deaf ears. Not sufficiently woke, or something.
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