{"id":294860,"date":"2023-11-23T15:09:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T15:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=294860"},"modified":"2023-11-23T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T15:09:43","slug":"navratilova-weighs-in-again-on-transgender-athletes-after-college-record-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/tennis\/navratilova-weighs-in-again-on-transgender-athletes-after-college-record-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Navratilova weighs in again on transgender athletes after college record broken"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former\u00a0tennis player Martina Navratilova has again made anti-transgender comments, with the 67-year-old lashing out at a transgender woman who broke a swimming record at a small liberal arts college this past weekend.<\/p>\n

Meghan Cortez-Fields, the swimmer, finished the 100-yard butterfly in 57.22 seconds – a record for Ramapo College, which enrolls about 6,000 students. She also finished in second place in the 200-yard butterfly.<\/p>\n

Navratilova, who spends significant time nowadays commenting online about transgender women in sports, wrote, “Women’s sports is not the place for mediocre male athletes who compete as women. Period.”<\/p>\n

In a separate post, she added: “I will keep saying this over and over – this is wrong and completely fair and quite frankly a mockery.”<\/p>\n

Despite no providing no evidence to back up her claims, Navratilova has not held back in her comments surrounding gender identity. She apologised\u00a0after strong comments in a Sunday Times interview\u00a0where she used the word ‘cheat’.<\/p>\n

A post on her website saw her clarify the reasoning behind her remarks. \u201cI know that my use of the word \u2018cheat\u2019 caused particular offence among the transgender community. I\u2019m sorry for that because I certainly was not suggesting that transgender athletes in general are cheats.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I don\u2019t have all the answers. I don\u2019t think there is a definitive answer here. That is why I want a debate, a conversation that includes everyone and is based, as I have said, not on feeling or emotion but science, objectivity and the best interests of women\u2019s sport as a whole.<\/p>\n

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Ramapo College told Fox News in a statement that it continues to support swimmer Cortez-Fields despite deleting a social media post about her weekend accomplishment.<\/p>\n

“The original post of Meghan’s achievement was deleted by a peer who wanted to protect their teammate from insulting comments on the post,” the school told Fox News. “The College continues to post team and individual student-athlete achievements for all programs on our Athletics website.<\/p>\n

“As a member affiliate of the NCAA, Ramapo College Athletics follows all NCAA policies, including the NCAA Transgender Student Participation Policy.”<\/p>\n

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