Tennis legend Martina Navratilova is taking purpose at sportswear large Nike for making an attempt to cover its obvious involvement in analysis packages regarding transgender athletics.
On Tuesday, Nike refused to say whether or not it was funding transgender analysis of any type. Nonetheless, a narrative over the earlier weekend revealed by the New York Occasions appeared to supply proof that Nike is financing at the very least one examine of trans athletes being performed by Joanna Harper, a person who identifies as a lady.
That entry regarding Nike’s involvement in funding trans athlete analysis despatched Navratilova to her social media account to blast the sportswear large.
On Tuesday, Navratilova was spurred to make her remark after ladies’s sportswear firm govt Jennifer Sey took to her personal social media to precise her shock at Nike.
“I’m nonetheless shocked by this. @Nike is funding a examine that disfigured younger boys to grasp if they are often bodily impaired sufficient to compete with ladies with out important ‘retained male benefit’. Why is a sneaker model doing medical experiments on youngsters?” she wrote.
The tennis legend then re-posted Sey’s remark, including, “Joanna Harper goes too far…as is Nike, evidently. Nike- similar firm that docked Allyson Felix for being pregnant. So she left and fashioned her personal firm, SAYSH. So thanks for nothing , Nike.”
Navratilova’s reference to Allyson Felix considerations the story of Nike steeply chopping Felix’s earnings after she introduced she was pregnant.
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