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Why can;t they just leave us to live our lives, why do they have to be buttinskies? Martina Navratilova is going on an anti-trans rant over Daniel Radcliffe.

Martina Navratilova tells Daniel Radcliffe to ‘be quiet’ on trans issues
Lesbian tennis legend Martina Navratilova has told Harry Potter star and trans ally Daniel Radcliffe to “be quiet” on transgender issues, after an old statement from the actor, in which he defended trans women, resurfaced online.
Pink News
By Emily Chudy
October 3, 2023

In 2020, shortly after JK Rowling published her infamous ‘TERF wars’ essay sharing her “concerns” about the trans community, Harry Potter actor Radcliffe joined with LGBTQ+ charity The Trevor Project to stand up for trans women.

“Transgender women are women,” he said in a statement at the time. “Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional healthcare associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo [Rowling] or I.”

Radcliffe doubled down on his comments two years later, telling Indiewire he had “met so many queer and trans kids and young people who had a huge amount of identification with Potter.”

He added: “Seeing them hurt… I wanted them to know that not everybody in the franchise felt that way. That was really important.”

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In 2019, she claimed that trans women competing in women’s sport was a form of “cheating”, prompting football star Megan Rapinoe to respond that it is “frustrating when women’s sport is weaponised” by anti-trans views.

What’s it to you?

How do you feel when people question you being a lesbian? Do you like it? Then why attack us.

Navratilova added that she deplored “what seems to be a growing tendency among transgender activists to denounce anyone who argues against them and to label them transphobes.”

So what are we supposed to do? Be your whipping girl?  That is what the oppressors say when the oppressed rise up.

It is like when the slaves in the south rose up and rebelled… their masters said “Is this how you repay me for all the good things that I gave you?”

As James Baldwin said,

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

And that is what you are Ms. Navratilova you are denying our existence.