Martina Navratilova has 1-word response to Megan Rapinoe’s remarks on trans participation in women’s sportsBy Ryan Gaydos, Paulina Dedaj, Fox News
July 11, 2023
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova appeared to react to comments from Megan Rapinoe over transgender participation in women’s sports as the soccer star gets set to participate in her final World Cup later this month.
Rapinoe was asked about transgender athletes in women’s sports in a recent interview with Time magazine.
Rapinoe said lawmakers were “trying to legislate away people’s full humanity” and said she would accept a transgender woman replacing a biological female on the U.S. national team.
As the comments circulated across the internet, Navratilova chimed in with one word.
“Yikes…” she wrote.
The nine-time Wimbledon champion has been an activist for the gay community but has been against transgender women competing against biological women in sports.
In March, she applauded World Athletics for adopting a policy to exclude transgender female athletes from women’s competitions. She called it a “step in the right direction.”
“In the wake of World Athletics’ announcement, I think the best idea would be to have ‘biological female’ and ‘biological girls’ categories and then an ‘open’ category,” she wrote in an op-ed in The Times of UK.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/11/martina-navratilova-has-1-word-response-to-megan-rapinoes-remarks-on-trans-participation-in-womens-sports/
