Martina Navratilova defends J.Okay. Rowling in social media transgender debate

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Girls's tennis legend Martina Navratilova stepped right into a social media debate in protection of famed "Harry Potter" creator J.Okay. Rowling over organic males in girls's areas on Thursday.

Rowling responded to an X thread by English columnist Dan Hodges, who was condemning what he thought-about "hostile" therapy of organic male transgender people who enter girls's areas.

Rowling sarcastically wrote in response to Hodges, "A person explaining to girls that they need to fake a few of his fellow males are girls as a result of that’s ‘respectful’ is precisely what this debate wanted. Thanks in your bravery."

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"Harry Potter" creator J.Okay. Rowling mentioned on X this week she's not eager on reconciling with actress Emma Watson over their political variations. (SOPA Photographs/Getty)

Rowling later wrote, "What you, and plenty of different males, fail to understand, presumably since you're so used to girls coddling males's emotions you see it because the pure order of issues, is that whereas a trans-identified man is totally and rightly free to decorate and confer with himself nevertheless he likes in our society, that does not give him rights over girls's beliefs and speech.

"I do not consider a person actually turns into a lady when he identifies as one, and as I've freedom of speech, I've the correct to name him a person. The verifiable reality of intercourse varieties the authorized foundation for girls's rights and for safeguarding. Nothing reveals your incapability to understand this concern, or your elementary sexism, greater than the truth that you, a person, are assuming the correct to dictate to girls how they need to talk about males."

One other consumer then responded to Rowling, arguing that the subject of trans individuals invading girls's areas is a "fringe concern."

Navratilova then entered the controversy in protection of Rowling.

"Fringe for you perhaps. Not so fringe for the ladies who're affected by males in girls’s intercourse primarily based areas . Compelled speech just isn't okay both," Navratilova wrote.

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Tennis legend and feminine rights activist Martina Navratilova blasted The New York Instances for a controversial description of organic girls. (Angel Martinez/Getty Photographs for Laureus)

Navratilova has been a polarizing determine on social media for her conflicted assist for liberals and opposition of Trump. She usually slams Democrats for permitting organic males in girls's sports activities.

Final December, she mentioned she was "mad" Republicans have tackled the nationwide controversy of trans athletes in girls's sports activities as an alternative of the Democrats.

"And I'm so mad that the Republicans captured this concern – disgrace on all of the elected Democrats who preserve silent on this!!! #whataboutthewomen," she wrote on X.

The tennis legend appeared on the Impartial Girls's Discussion board's Take Again Title IX rally in June to deal with the difficulty.

"Initially, being the Democrats and the ladies that we're for probably the most half, we on this group have been looking for each single attainable method to embrace trans-identified males, males who determine as girls, into women’s sports ," she mentioned. "And the extra we attempt to discover a method to mitigate the benefit, to handicap, to in some way to incorporate, the extra we discovered it’s not attainable. It’s not attainable to do it in a good means, and right here we're in a a lot completely different place.

"As I received deeper into the difficulty, I additionally noticed the connection between girls’s sex-based areas and girls’s sports activities. They're completely interconnected, and I’m certain the swimmers at Penn might let you know all about that. You heard about Lia Thomas , proper?

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Martina Navratilova in September 2022 in Flushing, Queens, New York Metropolis. (Tim Clayton/Corbis by way of Getty Photographs)

"Now, it’s, ‘Oh, you’re a homophobe.’ Go determine. I’ve been out since ’81. Yeah, I’m a homophobe," she mentioned, rolling her eyes. "‘You’re a bigot, you’re a transphobe, you’re a Nazi, you’re a fascist, you’re a communist,’ every thing and every thing in between. And that is coming from the left. I'm the left! My persons are turning on me. They’re turning on us girls who converse up for girls’s sex-based rights."

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Jackson Thompson is a sports activities reporter for Fox Information Digital masking crucial political and cultural points in sports activities, with an investigative lens. Jackson's reporting has been cited in federal authorities actions associated to the enforcement of Title IX, and in legacy media shops together with The New York Instances, The Los Angeles Instances, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Related Press and ESPN.com.