Another TERF Crawls Out

She says she is sorry but the hurtful words have been spoken.

Martina Navratilova deletes tweet about trans athletes after being called transphobic
Yahoo Sports
By Chris Cwik
December 21, 2018

Martina Navratilova is not having a good week on Twitter. The tennis star drew plenty of criticism Tuesday after sending out a negative tweet about trans athletes.

The tweet — which has now been deleted — read:

“Clearly that can’t be right. You can’t just proclaim yourself a female and be able to compete against women. There must be some standards, and having a penis and competing as a woman would not fit that standard…”

Navratilova’s view on the issue came as a surprise to fans. The 62-year-old Navratilova has been a prominent LGBTQIA activist. After being accused of being transphobic, Navratilova deleted the tweet, and vowed to educate herself on the issue.

Hmm… maybe she is just a LGB activist?

She said afterward,

I am sorry if I said anything anywhere near transphobic- certainly I meant no harm - I will educate myself better on this issue but meantime I will be quiet about it. Thank you

Okay, I am willing to see what she does in the future. To see if this is a onetime even or if is a beginning of a pattern but I wouldn’t doubt that the TERF radicals use her statement against us.

But I will say this… we have to be prepared for another probe by anti-trans conservatives and their Republican cohorts on trans athletes. They are attacking us in the sports arena; here in Connecticut we have already seen the opening blitz. A number of sore losers parents have been pressuring their state legislatures to force trans athletes to play on teams of their birth gender, they point to two trans athletes who competed in the state championship.

Connecticut parents petition to ban transgender track athletes
USA TODAY High School Sports
By: Cam Smith
June 6, 2018

For the second straight year, a small group of transgender athletes dominated their respective events at the girls track and field state championships in Connecticut. Apparently, the second time through the ringer for some fellow competitors was too much, with parents of those athletes now stepping forward to try to ban those transgender athletes from competing as females.

As reported by the Hartford Courant, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference allows athletes to compete as members of the gender with which they identify. That means that transgender teenagers can compete alongside cisgender opponents, creating what some feel is an uneven playing field.

Supporters of two petitions to eliminate the transgender regulations claim that their efforts aren’t aimed at the individual athletes who will be most directly impacted by the regulations. Still, it’s impossible to overlook the success of Andraya Yearwood, who first spoke about her transition to being a transgender female with the Courant a year ago. In the time since then, Yearwood has captured back-to-back 100-meter State Open titles as a freshman and sophomore. After Yearwood broke out as a freshman she inspired multiple other transgender entrants, according to the Courant.

But there are dozens more trans athletes who do not win and as the article says,

While parents of opposing runners may deny their petitions have anything to do with the chosen gender identity of the teens in question, it’s hard to debate the impact such rules and regulations could have on transgender athletes themselves.

There are probably less than a hundred people who signed the petition they have caught the ear of Republican legislators and we expect them to enter a bill forcing trans athletes to compete in their birth gender.