Tennis icon Martina Navratilova said that transgender swimmer Lia Thomas should have an “asterisk” next to his name.
“It’s not about excluding transgender women from winning ever,” said the 59-time Grand Slam champion. “But it is about not allowing them to win when they were not anywhere near winning as men.”
“You try to keep it as close as possible to what it would had been, were you born in the female biological body in the first place,” Navratilova continued. “And even saying that, people take exception to – biological female. People don’t even want to use those words. I don’t know what else to say. Other than that.”
Navratilova said a solution might be allowing them to compete but not allowing them to take home the gold. “Because the rules are not correct. But right now, the rules are what they are,” she said. “Maybe put an asterisk there.” “And in the future maybe there should be an open category for everyone, and then for biological females,” she added. “So trans women can compete, but they’ll compete against men.bAnd trans men have a choice.”Navratilova said this would allow biological men and women to compete against each other in their own category while allowing others to compete in the “open” category.silver medal Olympians to win the 500 freestyle national championship in Atlanta, Georgia.
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