The tennis star complained about the “pathetic parody of women” before taking a swipe at transgender women.
celebrating LGBTQ+ Americans’ place in the nation’s history, calling the performer a “pathetic parody of women.”In the video, Haaland and drag queen Pattie Gonia spoke outside New York’s Stonewall National Monument, the site of
between gay men, drag queens and police, which marked the start of the modern fight for LGBTQ+ rights. Navratilova seemed incensed by Gonia’s appearance despite drag’s undeniable role in the LGBTQ+ movement.Martina Navratilova before presents the winner's trophy during the 2022 U.S. Open Tennis Championship on Sept. 10, in New York City.When another replier tried to remind Navratilova the drag queen was, in fact, a parody and not a transgender woman, the athlete swerved into intentionally transphobic territory.
While Navratilova was hailed as an LGBTQ+ trailblazer after coming out in 1981, she has been a vocal opponent of transgender women competing in women’s sports.in a post on X,“Women’s tennis is not for failed male athletes- whatever age,” she wrote. “This is not right and it is not fair. Would this be allowed at the US Open this month? Just with self ID? I don’t think so…”
requires trans athletes to declare their gender as female officially and to undergo appropriate hormone treatment to “minimize gender-related advantages in sports competitions.”
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