Martina Navratilova, the legendary tennis player, recently shared her thoughts on recent reports from Scotland that claim that its citizens will be prohibited from referring to transgender women as males. Navratilova has been a vocal critic of not only transgender women participating in women’s sports, but also of transgender rights activism in general. The American, who has 59 major titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles, regularly expresses her dissatisfaction with such news.
In this context, Martina Navratilova took to her social media account on March 31 to respond to a report by a London-based journalist, who claimed in a separate post that the Scottish government would supposedly criminalize people if they misgender a trans woman. “As of April 1, in Scotland, stating that trans women are male will be considered a crime. A fact will be criminalized,” the journalist wrote on their social media account.
Navratilova was clearly puzzled by the report, claiming that people were now being prohibited from “stating a biological fact.” “This is no April fools…. Punishing people for stating a biological fact… ok then,” Navratilova wrote on her social media account on Sunday.
In February, Martina Navratilova expressed her displeasure at transgender athlete Maelle Jacques coming first in a girls’ high jump competition at the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA) indoor track and field championship. She reposted a video of the freshman, insisting in her caption that women’s sports must be protected from “failed male athletes.”
Navratilova also disapproved of transgender powerlifter Avi Silverberg, who broke the 84+ kg bench press record at an Alberta-based tournament in the USA last year. “It is happening literally everywhere…” the American wrote on her social media account last August. At the same time, she criticized the USTA for introducing a transgender inclusion policy, stating that women’s tennis is not for failed male athletes- whatever age.
