Martina Navratilova: defender of the LGTB + a transphoba collective

Martina Navratilova attacks trans athletes: "it is insane, cheating and unfair"

GAYLES.TV.- In 1981, Martina Navratilova she claimed lesbian. Since then the winning 177 extenist titles, 59 of them from Grand Slam, it was an icon for the community LGTB +. Things have changed. In December he published a tweet that lit the fuse: “someone you can not proclaim a woman and thus compete against women«. And he added «There must be some standards, and having a penis and competing as a woman would not conform to that standard«.

The champion of transgender cycling, and also medical, Rachel McKinnon, he did not take long to answer «Genitalia are irrelevant to athletic performance. Totally irrelevant. The difference between a trans woman (especially testosterone blockers) with a penis… and a trans woman without a penis is nothing. Therefore, focusing on the genitals is transphobic«. Navratilova He knew how to rectify, he deleted the tweet and he wrote I'm sorry if I said something transphobic, I certainly didn't mean to hurt. I will educate myself better on this subject, but in the meantime I will keep quiet. Thanks".

But now it returns to the charge in an article published on February 17 The Sunday Times. Navratilova insists: «I promised to keep quiet until I investigated more. I did it and my opinions have been strengthened. To be basic: a man decides he is a woman, takes hormones if the sports organization requires it, earns everything in sight and perhaps earns a small fortune, and then reverses his decision and makes babies again if he so decides. you want

**Navratilova: «They are men who decided to be women«**

It's crazy and it's a trap. I am happy to address a transgender woman in any way she prefers, but I would not like to compete against her. It would not be fair (…) Simply reducing hormone levels (as required by regulations) does not solve the problem. A man develops muscle and bone density, as well as a greater number of red blood cells that carry oxygen, from childhood ", writes the extenist.

The replica of Mckinnon Do not be late: «The last piece of Navratilova in the Sunday Times it is at once disturbing, disturbing and deeply transphobic (…) «She exchanges stereotypes and stigmas against trans women, treating us as men who only pretend to be real women. It seeks to deny the rights of trans women to compete under the rules. And the current rules, like the International Olympic Committee since 2003, it explicitly welcomes trans women to compete at the highest levels. I guess it's a lot to ask Martina to just do the same »

Navratilova responded to criticism with regretting “What appears to be a growing trend among transgender activists to denounce anyone who argues against them and label them as 'transphobos' That is another form of tyranny and I am concerned that others may cower in silence or submission.