Monday, February 25, 2019

Martina Navratilova says transgender women are 'cheating' if they compete in women's sport

 Martina Navratilova, who has criticised transgender women who compete in women's sports ( PA )

Martina Navratilova has claimed that allowiing transgender women to compete in professional is “insane and cheating”.

The legendary tennis player who came out as a lesbian in 1981, said competing against trans women who still had “biologically” male bodies made a mockery of women’s sport.

“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,” Navratilova wrote in The Sunday 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.”

Even trans athletes who take steps to lower their hormone levels still benefit from years of development in muscle and bone density since childhood as a man, she said...https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/martina-navratilova-transgender-women-sport-cheating

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