Martina Navratilova clashes on social media over transgender stance

Ladies’s tennis legend Martina Navratilova acquired into a quick social media feud with a low-profile consumer on

Navratilova was responding to a information report a couple of spa being pressured to offer a person entry to the ladies’s locker room on account of a discrimination lawsuit.

“To say that is fallacious is an understatement,” Navratilova wrote in response.

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Tennis legend Martina Navratilova in the course of the trophy displays, which she offered along with Chris Evert after the ladies’s singles last on Courtroom Philippe-Chatrier in the course of the 2024 French Open Tennis Match at Roland Garros on June 8, 2024 in Paris, France. (Tim Clayton/Corbis through Getty Photographs)

Comic Lou Perez responded to the tennis nice, declaring that Navratilova is a staunch supporter of Democrats and critic of President Donald Trump and different Republicans.

“You voted for this,” Perez wrote.

Navratilova replied, writing: “I voted in opposition to totalitarianism, good attempt.”

Perez then responded with a screenshot of Navratilova’s personal X-bio, which reads, “Vote blue regardless of the Dems’ stance on ladies’s sex-based areas.”

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Former tennis participant Martina Navratilova reacts forward of the boys’s singles last between Holger Rune of Denmark and Daniil Medvedev on day fourteen of the Internazionali BNL D’Italia 2023 at Foro Italico on Might 21, 2023 in Rome, Italy. (Justin Setterfield/Getty Photographs)

Navratilova confessed: “I agree with the Democrats on nearly each single concern besides one – whereas I strongly disagree with Trump and his sycophants on each single concern besides one. OK?!?”

Perez then invited the tennis legend to his upcoming comedy present, which Navratilova has not responded to on the time of publication.

Navratilova is a polarizing determine on social media for her contradictory help of liberals and opposition to Trump, whereas frequently condemning Democrats for permitting organic males into ladies’s sports activities.

Final December, she mentioned she was “indignant” that Republicans, as an alternative of Democrats, had addressed the nationwide controversy over trans athletes in ladies’s sports activities.

“And I am so indignant that Republicans have introduced consideration to this concern – disgrace on all of the elected Democrats who’re silent on this!!! #whataboutthewomen,” she wrote on X.

The tennis legend appeared on the Impartial Ladies’s Discussion board’s ‘Take Again Title IX’ assembly in June to handle the problem.

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Martina Navratilova throughout a joint press convention with Chris Evert of the USA, on day 5 of the GNP Seguros WTA Finals Cancun 2023, a part of the Hologic WTA Tour, on November 2, 2023, in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto through Getty Photographs)

“Initially, as Democrats and girls that we’re for probably the most half, we tried to seek out any manner we might on this group to get trans-identified males, males who determine as ladies, concerned in ladies’s sports activities,” she mentioned. “And the extra we attempt to discover a strategy to scale back the profit, to hinder it, to someway take in it, the extra we discover out that this isn’t attainable. It isn’t attainable to do it in a good manner and right here we’re in a really completely different place.

“As I regarded deeper into the problem, I additionally noticed the connection between ladies’s sex-based areas and girls’s sports activities – they’re fully interconnected, and I am positive the swimmers at Penn can let you know all about that. You’ve got heard of Lia Thomas, proper?

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“Now it is, ‘Oh, you are homophobic.’ Go determine. “I have been out of the closet since ’81, yeah, I am homophobic,” she mentioned, rolling her eyes. “You are a bigot, you are a transphobe, you are a Nazi, you are a fascist, you are a communist,” something and the whole lot in between. And this comes from the left. I am left! My individuals are turning in opposition to me. They flip in opposition to us, ladies, who arise for girls’s sex-based rights.’

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