Tennis legend sorry for transgender ‘cheat’ claim
Martina Navratilova says the issue of transgender athletes competing in women's sports is guaranteed to keep raising competitive as well as ethical questions. – EPA pic, March 4, 2019.
MARTINA Navratilova yesterday apologised for describing transgender athletes wishing to compete in women’s sports as cheats. The tennis legend, an 18-time Grand Slam title winner, was branded as “transphobic” after writing in a newspaper column that allowing trans athletes to compete with women who were assigned female at birth is “cheating and unfair”.
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