The former tennis champion Martina Navratilova wants to get transgender people out of women

The opposite is amazing, the reverse disruption. Martina Navratilova, 68, has become the darling of Fox News, the US ultra -conservative channel. It was enough that The former tennis champion (168 titles in single on the professional circuit, including 9 wins in Wimbledon and 2 in Roland-Garros) embarked on the presence of transgender people in female sports competitions so that each of her interventions posted on social networks on the subject is relayed by the chain.

Until recently, this double association seemed improbable. Throughout her career, between 1973 and 1994, Martina Navratilova was indeed the concentrate of all that the American conservatives hate. The player of Czech origin, who became stateless and then naturalized American, was the first star of women’s tennis to display her homosexuality, from the early 1980s. She was then recognized as a militant of the rights of gays and lesbians.

During two seasons, she was also trained by the first transgender player in history, Renée Richards, whose presence on the female circuit was debated, in the mid-1970s. Martina Navratilova herself suffered for a long time to be mocked for her pace or her musculature, and sometimes taxed to be a man disguised as a woman, especially during the clashes with her great rival and gray compatriot, Evert.

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